Focus on Green Investment, Sustainability & Energy Efficiency

Climate change @ Work Conference in Brisbane on 4 August will explore how more sustainable approaches to energy and resource efficiency are changing jobs, human resource management, workplace relations and skill formation.

This conference presents the big picture/policy issues of climate change in the workplace, along with case studies and practical workshops. While companies are often more concerned about the technological side of climate change this conference focuses on the practical information you need to achieve a better climate in a green workplace!

The Workplace Research Centre is bringing Climate Change @ Work to Brisbane for the second year following the success of last year’s conference. The conference is run in partnership with the Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Griffith University and ABC Carbon and will take place on the 4 August at the Ship Inn Function Room, Griffith Graduate Centre, Southbank, Brisbane.

The Climate Change @ Work Conference will provide an insight into the latest green business solutions and carbon emissions mitigation practices in the workplace as well as providing and update on green policy, green jobs and green workforce development in Australia.

The conference gives you the opportunity to meet with inspiring environmental business leaders and to hear the latest workplace sustainability research. New to this year’s program will be ‘Workplace Sustainability initiatives in the Tourism Industry’. The day will also include a valuable insight into sustainable leadership in the workplace with presentations by Accenture Australia and Hewlett Packard.

The interactive seminar style format of last year’s conference will be repeated to encourage debate and participation amongst attendees.

Speakers include:

Empowering Sustainability in the Workplace

• Professor Ian Lowe, President, Australian Conservation Foundation

Environmental Leadership in the Workplace

• Dr. Sally Russell, Lecturer in Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management,Griffith University
• Accenture Australia
• HP Imaging and Printing Group, South Pacific

Workplace Sustainability Initiatives in the Tourism Industry

• Dr. David Weaver, Professor of Tourism Research, Centre for Tourism, Sport and Service Innovation Research, Griffith University

• Stewart Moore,CEO, EC3 Global

Skills for Sustainability in Australia

• Serena Yu, Senior Research Analyst, Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney

Green Ventures, a sustainability showcase

• Ken Hickson, Director,ABC Carbon

Source: www.wrc.org.au