Dr. David Vincent, head of International Programs at Carbon Trust and an actual P.h.D. carrying scientist, is visiting Australia hot on the heels of self proclaimed Nobel laurette Lord Monckton. Last Thursday 11th February, we heard his thoughts about climate skepticism and how small businesses could position themselves for the imminent low carbon economy.
David is currently in Australia on a mission to inspire our small to medium business (SME) owners to start thinking about ways to prepare themselves for the move to a low carbon economy.
Carbon reduction will create significant business opportunities, and not just for the bigger players in the market. Because of their trademark flexibility, innovation and close ties with the community, SMEs are ideally positioned to leverage the low carbon economy for growth.
Carbon Trust has already done some great work with businesses in the UK, helping them identify effective and affordable ways to reduce their carbon footprints, develop low carbon technologies and, ultimately, lower costs.
This DE Talk was presented in collaboration with the British High Commission, and held at a new venue, Object Gallery, where we are currently exhibiting for the State.Respond exhibition.
To see photos from the event, please visit our Flickr page.
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Thanks for the invitation – I would love to come to this breakfast!
Look forward to seeing you then.
Caroline Pidcock
Great Caroline,
Its going to be a breath of fresh English air after the good Lord Monckton!
Look forward to seeing you their Caroline.
Very much look forward to the speech and seeing everyone there. Daryl Hutchings. CO2NeutralConferencing.com
Wonderful Daryl, David is quite an authority and i think even those of us who know a thing or two will get a lot out of his talk.
This looks really interesting, I’d love to attend and spread the word.
Thanks for the invite!
Amanda
Great – look forward to seeing you there Amanda. (I just sent the below to a few people but wanted to share it with others who might stop by this page in the next few days) ..
I’m excited about this one for a several reasons, firstly i’m really looking forward to some good old English humour and climate common sense coming to town after the hyped up baloney of the Lord Monckton Show. This talk should open our minds to how we can get in on the action as the world goes through its greatest revolution yet.
Secondly we have an exhibition on at Object gallery – http://www.object.com.au – where the talk is taking place that i’m really proud of – the team at Digital Eskimo launched our Change Agents collaboration with the Creative Industries Innovation Centre (CIIC) at UTS which aims to co-create an open source toolkit for the Design industry to position itself for the low carbon economy.
Finally, we’ll be unveiling our Digital Eskimo Ecological Footprint report for 2009 (just had confirmation it will be ready) which uses a cool soccer field approximation model based on the Victorian EPA’s calculator. Duncan Underwood our Director of Operations + Sustainability will take you through it Pele style on the day.