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NOW THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS RECOGNISED AS A MAJOR RISK TO BUSINESS, HOW DO YOU ELEVATE

FROM BELIEF TO ACTION?

Corporate Social Responsibility 2007 Summit

State Library of NSW, Sydney30 October – 1 November 2007

Professor Dean ForbesDeputy Vice-Chancellor (International)

Flinders University

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Elevating from Belief to Action

Mick Kelty: ‘climate change, with the threat of water and food shortagesand refugees fleeing rising sea levels, is the greatest security risk of thiscentury’ (The Australian, 25/9/07)

Contrasting opinions on the science of climate change in The Great GlobalWarming Swindle (UK) and The Denial Machine (Canadian BroadcastingCorporation)

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeA comprehensive scientific project, capped by a Nobel Prize

Act locally and act globally

Woody Allen: Some people drink from the river of life. Others just gargle

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Acting Locally: How University’s ContributeSetting an ExampleTaking responsibility, and setting an example, both nationally and globally

Working with Business

University of East Anglia Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Club CRED, which stands for carbon reduction

BRASH – Business and Research Alliances for Sustainable HabitatsBRASH links Flinders University’s environment expertise with enterprises wanting to enhance their sustainability practices

Assistance with an environmental audit of your workplace Showing how to develop an environmental management system Preparing environmental reports to demonstrate improvements Introduce more energy efficient plant or water use or deal more effectively

with waste systems

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Acting Locally: How University’s Contribute

Working with the Media

‘Cool Aid: The National Carbon Test”

Global warming and its consequences. How individuals and the community could reduce GHG emissions

Household GHG audits were undertaken by researchers from the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney

University-media cooperation

Eco Heroes

Who are the most prominent ‘eco heroes’ and how significant are they in shaping attitudes and public policy on the environment?

Leave it to Bono?

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Acting Globally: The Policy Levers

What is the tipping point for serious action on climate change?

Carbon Emissions Trading

Government Task Group on Emissions Trading

On 3 June 2007 the Prime Minister announced that the Government would introduce a ‘cap and trade’ emissions trading scheme

Working with Asia

Australia must cooperate with Asian Pacific countries on reducing carbon emissions, and managing the inevitable consequences of our past behaviour

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Acting Globally: The Policy Levers

Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate

The six governments to sign on are Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea and the US

Australia’s proposed carbon emissions trading system must be part of a global arrangement

A significant amount of work that needs to be done on the inevitable impact of environmental change upon Asian Pacific societies