Major Climate Change Gathering
24-26 August, Melbourne
Some of the world's leading experts in climate change policy, carbon trading and investment in low-carbon industries
will be arriving in Australia within two weeks to address the 5th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change & Business Conference in Melbourne.
The conference will be held just after the Australian Senate votes on the government's proposed Carbon Pollution
Reduction Scheme (CPRS). Both Australian and New Zealand Climate Change Ministers Wong and Smith will be addressing the
event, allowing Australian and New Zealand businesses to hear their governments' plans in the run up to the United
Nations climate change meeting in Copenhagen in December.
Distinguished international speakers at the Climate Change & Business conference include:
• Sascha Bloemhoff - Commercial Director, Climex (dedicated to growing the European voluntary carbon market), The Netherlands
• Josh Carmody - Senior Project Specialist at the Asian Development Bank, Manila
• Kate Cecys - International Research Fellow, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Washington, US
• Karen Degouve - Head of Carbon Finance, NATIXIS Environment & Infrastructures, overseeing the European Carbon Fund and European Kyoto Fund, France
• Henry Derwent - President and CEO, International Emissions Trading Association, Switzerland
• John Drexhage - Director Climate Change & Energy, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Canada
• Steve Fludder - Vice President, GE ecomagination, US
• Mina Guli - Vice Chair, Peony Capital investment fund, China
• Henrik Hasselknippe - Global Head of Carbon Market Analysis, Point Carbon, Norway
• Masaya Inamuro - General Manager, Emission Reductions Projects, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Japan
• Mike Mckensey - CFO - Enecore Carbon Ltd, UK and China
• Geoff Pollard - Head of Emissions and Power Trading, BP Eastern Hemisphere, Singapore
• Nigel Scott - Head of Portfolio Management, Climate Change Capital, UK
• Alex Wyatt - Chief Executive Officer, Climate Bridge, China
In addition to the plenary sessions, the conference will include introductory workshops and concurrent streams focused
on specific issues such as cleantech investment, carbon capture & storage and land management. A segment of the Conference will provide practical advice to businesses on how to prepare for emissions trading and
pending legislation with experts on hand who have already been through the process.
The conference includes an international exhibition and a variety of related side events including a tour of Victorian
climate change response project sites, a tour of sustainable commercial buildings and a Carbon Market Business
Breakfast.
Join us for the conference designed by business for business dealing with responding to climate change.
Register now at www.climateandbusiness.com.
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