North West and UK
£713m savings
Businesses in England's Northwest could save £713 million per annum through no cost and low-cost resource efficiency improvements.
DEFRA
50% savings
Managed efficiently, businesses can save up to 50 per cent of their water costs through implementing simple and inexpensive water minimisation measures.
Environment Agency
£72bn costs
Failure to adapt and respond to the climate change challenge could cost the Northwest economy £72 billion.
Deloitte
£23bn savings
UK businesses could be saving £23 billion a year through no cost and low-cost resource efficiency improvements, according to figures published in March 2011.
DEFRA
Global
5 to 20% every year
Inaction on climate change could dampen global economic output by anywhere from 5 to 20 per cent every year over the course of this century.
The Stern Review
130 fold reduction
By 2050 carbon dioxide emissions need to be 6 grammes of CO2 per US dollar of global GDP. Today they are 768 grammes of CO2 per US dollar.
Sustainable Development Commission
40% increase
Global carbon emissions have increased by 40 per cent since 1990 (the Kyoto Protocol 'base year').
Sustainable Development Commission
80% cut
The world's first Climate Change Act commits the UK to an 80 per cent reduction in CO2 by 2050.
