Scope of the Conference

Conference Committee

Colin Challen, MP
Susan Roaf, Heriot Watt University
Rajat Gupta, Oxford Brookes University
Bob Everett, The Open University
Robert Cohen, ESD Consultants
Stephen Brown, RICS

What is the overall objective of the event?

Many leading edge organisations, communities and individuals are now undertaking carbon audits of their own operations. This conference will present a range of the main carbon counting methods with case studies and rationales on how they are being used, discussions around the units and factors used in their calculations and on their wider relevance to carbon counting and targeting in general. This is an experts’ workshop whereby businesses, politicians, local authorities, consultants, professionals and academics with a stake in carbon counting, auditing and targeting can get together and ensure their methodologies are mutually compatible, effective, replicable and relevant to the wider social challenge of reducing carbon emissions nationally and globally.

The conference will:

  • Outline methods in use in the market place
  • Raise awareness of the further development needed to enhance compatibility and effectiveness
  • Educate stakeholders on ways forward and available support
  • Open discussions on the potential and form of a new Carbon Counting Standard for Britain.

A vital event for all interested and involved in the application of methodologies for carbon counting in day to day operations in business, government, communities and individuals.

Background to the event

The first Carbon Counting meeting was held in Oxford in November 2005 and there have been six subsequent meetings of the group at Westminster attended by representatives from a wide range of related organisations including national and global corporations, businesses and industries, consultants, local and city authorities, communities, universities, MPs and representatives of architectural, engineering and surveying firms. This conference will launch the first of a yearly Carbon Counting initiative for the reviewing, development and updating of competencies in the field of Carbon Accounting. Supported by the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group (APPCCG) at Westminster, the Open University and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, it will be held in the prestigious venue of the Institution of Civil Engineers followed by a reception at the House of Commons.

Speaker profile

The invited keynote speakers of the Conference are leading figures in the field of carbon accounting and represent a wide range of stakeholders in the field.

Delegate profile

Attendees are invited from any group currently developing carbon counting methods including:

  • The CEOs and senior executives of member organisations currently carrying out carbon audits of their own premises and activities, in both the public and private sectors.
  • Carbon consultants from large, middle capitalisation companies, SMES and NGOs in the field of carbon accounting and low carbon building design.
  • Local authorities and communities with and without established carbon accounting programmes
  • Researchers, consultants and individuals with interests in the field

Space for the display of information will be available on the day - for more information contact the conference secretariat.

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