The 4^th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change & Business Conference will be held in Auckland, New Zealand with both the New Zealand and Australian Federal Governments as Foundation Sponsors. The event will focus on the risks and opportunities facing business as a result of climate change with a particular emphasis on emissions trading, in both compliance and voluntary markets. The program is structured with plenary sessions that will examine big-picture issues such as current and future carbon market activity and the negotiation process towards a post 2012 global treaty while three streams of concurrent sessions will provide practical advice on specific issues facing business.

Some of the topics to be covered within the streams include:

- Voluntary Markets: how they can co-exist with compliance markets; some of the curly issues in determining your business footprint; marketing your climate change response.

- Compliance Markets: how to source carbon credits; the CDM market from various perspectives; linking the New Zealand and Australian schemes.

- Complementary Measures: what policies other than emissions trading are needed to drive energy efficiency; the perceived disconnect in listed markets regarding climate change; how to bridge the investment "death zone".

- Land Use: competing needs for agricultural lands; reducing ruminant methane; soil carbon; avoided deforestation.

More than 90 expert speakers from this region and around the globe have been invited including Prime Ministers Helen Clark and Kevin Rudd. The event is a must for anyone involved in climate change strategy and policy planning and implementation. It is expected to be the pre-eminent business gathering on climate change in the region.

The Investor Group on Climate Change in conjunction with project partners Goldman Sachs JBWere and Catholic Superannuation Fund hosted a series of Carbon Disclosure Briefings  in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland on Tuesday May 13 and Wednesday May 14 at Goldman Sachs JBWere. Preeminent institutional investors spoke on how the CDP is used by investors and provided advice on answering this year's questionnaire which is due on Friday 30 May 2008. The presentations were attended by over 90 representatives from ASX200 and NZX50 companies and institutional investors. The presentations for the briefings are available here.

 

The Investor Group on Climate Change in conjunction with Goldman Sachs JBWere, Merrill Lynch, Hastings Funds Management and Monash Sustainability Enterprises launched a series of Reports on the Potential Earnings Impacts from Climate Change for Key Australian Sectors on Friday 30 November.

 

The Reports describe the key climate change issues relevant to each sector and are designed to assist institutional investors, fund managers and analysts better understand climate change impacts for individual companies and assets and are available below:  

 Download a copy of the CDP Australia & New Zealand Report 2007 here.