talk
february 2007
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Going carbon neutral - Are carbon offsets the real deal or simply more greenwash?
Fri 16th | 6:00pm - 7:30pm
The Edge
hosted by | Australian Conservation Foundation
One of the key events at this year's Festival is the Australian Conservation Foundation’s hosted debate Going carbon neutral - Are carbon offsets the real deal or simply more greenwash?
Join MC Sian Prior, ACF Executive Director Don Henry and our invited guests to discuss:
-What do we mean by ‘Going Carbon Neutral’?
-What are the standards we should expect in carbon neutral schemes?
-Will going ‘carbon neutral’ be enough to turn around climate change?
-Is it possible for each of us to carbon neutral in our modern society?
-Is paying for our emissions just a convenient way of outsourcing our guilt?
RSVP is recommended. Call ACF on 1800 223 669.
Join MC Sian Prior, ACF Executive Director Don Henry and our invited guests to discuss:
-What do we mean by ‘Going Carbon Neutral’?
-What are the standards we should expect in carbon neutral schemes?
-Will going ‘carbon neutral’ be enough to turn around climate change?
-Is it possible for each of us to carbon neutral in our modern society?
-Is paying for our emissions just a convenient way of outsourcing our guilt?
RSVP is recommended. Call ACF on 1800 223 669.
Don Henry, Paul Gilding, Philip Sutton, Sian Prior, Tim Cadman, Tosh Szatow
Tosh Szatow completed a degree in Economics and Social Science from the University of Sydney before undertaking roles in human resource consulting and community infrastructure project management. He is currently studying a Masters of Engineering in sustainable energy at RMIT while working for the Consumer Utilities Advocacy Centre (CUAC) as a policy officer.
CUAC is an independent consumer advocacy organisation established to ensure the interests of Victorian consumers, especially low-income, disadvantaged, rural and regional and Indigenous consumers are effectively represented in the policy and regulatory debate on electricity, gas and water. CUAC advocates on behalf of long term consumer interests which we believe incorporates social, environmental and economic outcomes.
Tosh ' s role includes informing CUAC 's advocacy, and balancing economic, social and environmental objectives. CUAC pays particular attention to policy where it has the potential to systematically disadvantage Victorian consumers. Most relevant to energy emissions and offsets, CUAC has taken and will continue to take an active role in advocating consumer interests in the development of climate change responses, including emissions trading, renewable energy and price regime change.
Sian Prior is a freelance journalist, broadcaster, university lecturer, event host and singer. She has presented several arts programs for ABC Radio, and has contributed numerous columns, opinion pieces and feature articles to The Age newspaper. She also writes for The Bulletin, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Courier-Mail and Habitat magazine. Sian was a climate change campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation in the late 1980’s, and was a member of the ACF Board for five years during the 1990’s.
She has hosted, launched, curated and spoken at a broad range of public and private events for organisations including the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, the Melbourne Film Festival, the Melbourne Writer’s Festival, the Australia Council, the Australian Film Institute, the Victorian Arts Centre and the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation.
Sian has been an active member of numerous community boards and committees - her current commitments include the City of Melbourne’s Cultural Affairs Advisory Board and The Arts Centre’s Artists Advocacy Group. For more information: www.sianprior.com
Tim Cadman MA is currently undertaking his PhD at the School of Government, University of Tasmania and has 15 years background in forest conservation and international environmental policy. In 2001, Tim was engaged by Greenpeace International and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to present to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP6) at The Hague, Netherlands, regarding carbon offsets and tree plantations.
Currently serving as President of the Sustainable Living Foundation (SLF), Philip Sutton is the founder and Director-Strategy of Green Innovations, a non-profit environmental strategy think tank promoting global and local ecological sustainability.
Philip has been an influential figure in the environmental policy arena for over 25 years, working with the Victorian government on energy and conservation strategies, and advising the Federal Government on endangered species and ecologically sustainable development issues.
He has served as President of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (ANZSEE) and worked with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) on the Seoul Initiative for Green Growth.
Recently, Philip developed the idea of the Race to Sustainability and is working with SLF to mobilise whole communities across the world to achieve sustainability as quickly as possible.
Paul Gilding has spent over 30 years working on sustainability issues as an activist, business leader and commentator.
From 1975 to 1995, Paul worked as an activist on a range of social and environmental issues, becoming the International Executive Director of Greenpeace in 1992. In 1995, Paul established Ecos Corporation, advising leading corporations on sustainability. In late 2005 Paul also became CEO of Easy Being Green, an Australian company using carbon trading to drive mass consumer action on energy efficiency.
Paul is a member of the Core Faculty of the Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment Program run by Cambridge University, writes regular columns for The Australian, Chairman of the youth charity The Inspire Foundation, a Director of the Australian Business Community Network and a member of the Foundation Council of the Australian Davos Connection.
In 1992 the World Economic Forum (WEF) appointed Paul as a Global Leader for Tomorrow, followed in 1993 with an Australia Day Award for Outstanding Achievement for services to the environment. In 1994, he was listed by Time International in its “Time’s Global 100 Young Leaders for the New Millennium” and in 1997, he received the prestigious Tomorrow Magazine Environmental Leadership Award.
Don Henry campaigned for the protection of Moreton Island, Great Barrier Reef Islands, the rainforests of north Queensland, and Cape York in the 1980s. As Director of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland and the editor of “Wildlife Australia”, Don succeeded in generating grassroots support for conservation among both rural and city people. He has served as a Commissioner with the Australian Heritage Commission, President of the Australian Committee for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Moreton Island Protection Committee. From 1989-92 Don was the Australian Director of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). He was then based in Washington, DC with WWF, working as Director of the South Pacific program (1992-95), the Asia-Pacific program (1995-96) and the Global Forest program (1996-98). In 1998 Don returned to Australia, where he is currently Executive Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation. In 1991 he was awarded a Global 500 Environment Award from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), for his services to conservation.
CUAC is an independent consumer advocacy organisation established to ensure the interests of Victorian consumers, especially low-income, disadvantaged, rural and regional and Indigenous consumers are effectively represented in the policy and regulatory debate on electricity, gas and water. CUAC advocates on behalf of long term consumer interests which we believe incorporates social, environmental and economic outcomes.
Tosh ' s role includes informing CUAC 's advocacy, and balancing economic, social and environmental objectives. CUAC pays particular attention to policy where it has the potential to systematically disadvantage Victorian consumers. Most relevant to energy emissions and offsets, CUAC has taken and will continue to take an active role in advocating consumer interests in the development of climate change responses, including emissions trading, renewable energy and price regime change.
Sian Prior is a freelance journalist, broadcaster, university lecturer, event host and singer. She has presented several arts programs for ABC Radio, and has contributed numerous columns, opinion pieces and feature articles to The Age newspaper. She also writes for The Bulletin, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Courier-Mail and Habitat magazine. Sian was a climate change campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation in the late 1980’s, and was a member of the ACF Board for five years during the 1990’s.
She has hosted, launched, curated and spoken at a broad range of public and private events for organisations including the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, the Melbourne Film Festival, the Melbourne Writer’s Festival, the Australia Council, the Australian Film Institute, the Victorian Arts Centre and the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation.
Sian has been an active member of numerous community boards and committees - her current commitments include the City of Melbourne’s Cultural Affairs Advisory Board and The Arts Centre’s Artists Advocacy Group. For more information: www.sianprior.com
Tim Cadman MA is currently undertaking his PhD at the School of Government, University of Tasmania and has 15 years background in forest conservation and international environmental policy. In 2001, Tim was engaged by Greenpeace International and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to present to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP6) at The Hague, Netherlands, regarding carbon offsets and tree plantations.
Currently serving as President of the Sustainable Living Foundation (SLF), Philip Sutton is the founder and Director-Strategy of Green Innovations, a non-profit environmental strategy think tank promoting global and local ecological sustainability.
Philip has been an influential figure in the environmental policy arena for over 25 years, working with the Victorian government on energy and conservation strategies, and advising the Federal Government on endangered species and ecologically sustainable development issues.
He has served as President of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (ANZSEE) and worked with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) on the Seoul Initiative for Green Growth.
Recently, Philip developed the idea of the Race to Sustainability and is working with SLF to mobilise whole communities across the world to achieve sustainability as quickly as possible.
Paul Gilding has spent over 30 years working on sustainability issues as an activist, business leader and commentator.
From 1975 to 1995, Paul worked as an activist on a range of social and environmental issues, becoming the International Executive Director of Greenpeace in 1992. In 1995, Paul established Ecos Corporation, advising leading corporations on sustainability. In late 2005 Paul also became CEO of Easy Being Green, an Australian company using carbon trading to drive mass consumer action on energy efficiency.
Paul is a member of the Core Faculty of the Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment Program run by Cambridge University, writes regular columns for The Australian, Chairman of the youth charity The Inspire Foundation, a Director of the Australian Business Community Network and a member of the Foundation Council of the Australian Davos Connection.
In 1992 the World Economic Forum (WEF) appointed Paul as a Global Leader for Tomorrow, followed in 1993 with an Australia Day Award for Outstanding Achievement for services to the environment. In 1994, he was listed by Time International in its “Time’s Global 100 Young Leaders for the New Millennium” and in 1997, he received the prestigious Tomorrow Magazine Environmental Leadership Award.
Don Henry campaigned for the protection of Moreton Island, Great Barrier Reef Islands, the rainforests of north Queensland, and Cape York in the 1980s. As Director of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland and the editor of “Wildlife Australia”, Don succeeded in generating grassroots support for conservation among both rural and city people. He has served as a Commissioner with the Australian Heritage Commission, President of the Australian Committee for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Moreton Island Protection Committee. From 1989-92 Don was the Australian Director of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). He was then based in Washington, DC with WWF, working as Director of the South Pacific program (1992-95), the Asia-Pacific program (1995-96) and the Global Forest program (1996-98). In 1998 Don returned to Australia, where he is currently Executive Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation. In 1991 he was awarded a Global 500 Environment Award from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), for his services to conservation.