Carbon Tax

The 2012 Association Conference – Taking Care of Business: Sustainable Transformation will be held on the Gold Coast in May.

The Association for Sustainability in Business Inc. is a Non Government, Not-For-Profit Organisation (IA 38885). The Association is not a lobby group, we aim to educate, and keep our members up to date with the latest trends, information, training and B2B opportunities while encouraging profitability and competitiveness.

The conference program is available on the website and will feature over fifty (50) presenters.

Ian Berry, Sparkenator will open the Conference
A sparkenation is a spark that ignites passion that leads to action that changes what’s normal. The author of Changing What’s Normal, Ian will ignite this conference before, during, and after his presentation.

Online Registration is available on the conference website.

Special Early bird Registration ($675) is available to members of the following organisations;

* Association for Sustainability in Business Inc.
* The International Society of Sustainability Professionals
* The Sustainable Energy Association
* The Australian Association for Environmental Education
* Local Government and Shires Associations
* Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Free wireless internet will be available to all delegates, sponsors, exhibitors and presenters at the conference and free broadband internet access in accommodation rooms. This will assist with B2B information exchange and networking.

Full registration also includes all sessions, morning teas, lunches, afternoon teas, conference materials including handbook and the ‘Welcome’ networking cocktail function.

I hope to meet you in May.

Knd regards

Angrela Green
Association Secretariat
The Association for Sustainability in Business Inc
Phone: (61 7) 5502 2068 | Fax: (61 7) 5527 3298

” Sustainability is the single biggest business opportunity of the 21st century.” – Will Day, chairman of the UK’s Sustainable Development Commission

How will the carbon pricing mechanism impact your business? :: SustainabilityMatters

The Australian government has announced plans to introduce a carbon price mechanism from 1 July 2012. There will be a three-year fixed price period. The carbon price will start at $23 per tonne in 2012-13 and will be $24.15 in 2013-14 and $25.40 in 2014-15. From 1 July 2015 onwards, the carbon price will be set by the market. Under the plan, Australia will cut 159 million tonnes a year of carbon pollution from its atmosphere by 2020 – the equivalent of taking over 45 million cars off the road.

In the article below, Elisa de Wit, Anthony Hobley, Noni Shannon and Dominic Adams from law firm Norton Rose Australia outline the impact of the carbon pricing mechanism on businesses.

How will the carbon pricing mechanism impact your business? :: SustainabilityMatters.

Exploding the Carbon Myths; The Carbon Response

The Carbon Response step by step guide to saving up to 70% of your energy use. How to significantly reduce your greenhouse gas emissions and increase your business profits at the same time?

“Smart executives now recognize that companies can profit by providing solutions to problems like climate change”. Jeffery Immelt, CEO, General Electric.

Beware of the carbon tax, apparently it could send businesses broke. Media is warning that electricity prices are going to spiral upwards with a carbon tax, like Chicken Little, it is just a fable that the sky is going to fall in when a carbon tax is introduced. They argue that the Australian economy will go backwards, GDP will take a big hit.

This alarmist myth is based on misinformation. It is based on the fundamental assumption that the energy use of business and the economy is fixed, that current levels of energy use represent an efficient allocation of energy and that business will have to take the electricity price rise from the carbon tax straight on their bottom line. These assumptions seem especially true in the export industries. However, as will be explained in the presentation, these industries have some of the greatest opportunities to contribute towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increase their profit even with the imposition of a carbon tax.

Dispelling the myth that being green costs, and reducing business greenhouse gas emission will hit the bottom line is the biggest of all the carbon myths. What is the assumption that underpins this myth? It is that Australian businesses and the Australian economy energy use levels at the moment represent an energy efficient allocation of energy and that all profitable investments in energy efficiency that can be made have been made.

Carbon Response provides a 5 step process which can reduce business energy use by upto 70%.

Mr Francis Barram, Managing Director, Carbon Response will speak at the “Taking Care of Business: Sustainable Transformation” Conference  on the 15th & 16th of September 2011 at the Radisson Resort, Gold Coast, Australia