Where are the leaders with courage and vision?

How much more leading by the nose do the chief executives of today's energy sector companies need before they decide to seriously invest in renewable energies and sustainable development?

Likewise the leaders of UK Plc in providing many more incentives for companies to invest now.

There is a massive market awaiting those companies who have the courage to grasp the opportunity now. UK companies could develop technologies that we could then sell to the world, instead they hang onto fossil fuels and nuclear energy, whilst making, in their terms, small investments in the renewable sector.

As regards UK Plc, why aren't all new buildings compelled to use renewable energy sources, which would provide a massive kickstart to companies developing those technologies.

The writing is on the wall for the 'dinosaurs' leading companies and countries, wedded to yesterday's technologies, justifying themselves on profit and market share grounds, for their continued refusal to see the light. They are ably assisted in this blinkered view by their boards of directors.

Governments and companies worldwide reinforce each other's behaviour and refusal to break ranks, and be the leaders of a twenty first century revolution, which embraces the realities and challenges of this century and throws their full weight behind the actions needed to address climate change, sustainable development and human rights.

Instead governments and companies blur and obfuscate, hoping to distract people across the world from the coming time when it will be too late to take action.

So we should all take action now and join '100 month and counting' and encourage all your friends and colleagues to join as well. Time is of the essence!

Paul