Carbon Expo Day 1
Over 24 countries represented, 100 guest speakers and 1000 delegates — this is the first industry hosted carbon market expo – and Greensense was there. As Tim Flannery said this afternoon “this event is about turbo charged learning”.
The conference was kicked started with an opening from James Cameron of Climate Change Capital London, commenting on the fact we should not be pessimistic about our ability to deal with both the Global Financial Crisis and Climate Change at the same time and that while Australia as made significant progress in the last 12 months on it’s climate change policy our current start to the CPRS looks modest.
This was followed by the Honorable Penny Wong, Federal Minister for Climate Change and Water, who, ahead of today’s release by the treasury on the economic modelling of emissions trading, spoke of the pending introduction of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and Australia’s global advantage with its geographical, geological and economic positions.
The conference has brought together industry leaders and shows positive signs that a strong platform in Australia is being built to help our nation transition into a carbon driven economy.
We will add more on output from the conference soon.
Below — the Hon Penny Wong being interviewed by Tony Jones, host of the ABC’s Lateline.
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