AUSTRALIAN CARBON SCHEME MAY GIVE NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO NZ BUSINESSES
By Gary Taylor, Chairman, Climate Change & Business Centre
The Australian government has just announced its Clean Energy Future Plan. This package includes a carbon tax on the 500 biggest emitting companies as well as billions to be invested in renewable energy, energy efficiency and agricultural emission reductions. Households are to be compensated for likely cost increases.
It has proved incredibly controversial across the Tasman in much the same way as New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme did a few years back. Yet the sky did not fall in as a result of the ETS and it is now an established part of doing business here.
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BRITISH BUSINESS LEADER TO SPEAK AT WELLINGTON CONFERENCE
We are very pleased to announce that Sir Richard Lambert, former Director-General of the Confederation of British Industries, is confirmed as the dinner speaker at the 7th Australia – New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference (Wellington, New Zealand, 1-2 August 2011).
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WELLINGTON TO HOST LEADING CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE IN 2011
28 January 2011
Wellington City Council is bringing the pre-eminent climate change and business conference in the Asia-Pacific region to the city in 2011.
The city will host the 7th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference on 1-2 August 2011 with the Council as Foundation Sponsor.
The 2010 conference in Sydney was the most important conference of its type, attracting delegates from throughout the region. It saw participation by key business leaders, politicians, academics and industry experts and presentations from the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, national and state politicians, and a wide range of industry sectors including banking, farming, forestry, investment, management, technology, transport, and energy.
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