Event date: 26 – 28 October, 2009

IGC’s Dr Martin Blake is a plenary speaker at Australasia’s premier trade fair and conference for carbon market participants and service providers, Carbon Market Expo Australasia 2009. Fellow speakers include Australia’s Chief Economist Tim Harcourt, The Hon Greg Combet AM MP, His Excellency Mr Fernando de Mello Barreto- The Brazillian Ambassador, Macquarie Bank’s John Marlow and UNFCCC Germany’s James Grabert.

Australia’s premier, industry-hosted Trade Fair & Conference for carbon market participants & service providers across Australasia, Carbon Market Expo Australasia 2009 will be held at the Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre 26-28 October 2009.

The event is to be hosted by leading carbon market industry associations Environment Business Australia and the Asia-Pacific Emissions Trading Forum, with the event’s Foundation Sponsors the Queensland Government and Gold Coast City Council.

Carbon Market Expo Australasia 2009 will be a high-level market event that brings Australian business leaders and their international counterparts together – this will be a premium networking event as well as a source for the latest information concerning carbon markets in Australasia.  

Carbon Market Expo Australasia 2009 will comprise a carbon market trade fair integrated with a conference program of keynote plenary and panel presentations, and a series of technical workshops addressing cutting-edge issues in evolving carbon markets and low carbon technologies.  The trade fair provides an opportunity for private sector and government businesses to showcase their activities, services and products in the emerging carbon market.

Carbon Market Expo Australasia 2009 will be attended by a diverse range of businesses including energy providers and other significant industries with corporate abatement strategies, carbon offset providers, carbon market consultants, carbon market brokers and legal advisers, banks, investment banks, superannuation funds, institutional investors, international financial institutions, technology providers, and suppliers of energy efficient and ‘cleantech’ products – all of whom play a role in assisting businesses to reduce, manage, mitigate and offset carbon emissions.

Participants and exhibitors at Carbon Market Expo Australasia 2009 will include:

• Administrators of government and/or private sector market-based emissions reduction initiatives

• Managers of carbon offset projects and carbon offset wholesalers & retailers (including forest sink offsets)

• Businesses with significant corporate or product emissions reduction strategies

• Businesses manufacturing or retailing low carbon and energy efficient technologies

• Providers of carbon accounting, auditing & verification services

• Providers of other carbon market advisory & facilitation services such as carbon pools, brokers, exchanges, carbon market legal advisers, and risk managers (insurers)

• Research and education institutions active in carbon cycle R&D, low emissions technology development, and carbon market education

For more information go to carbonexpo.com.au

Event date: Thursday, June 25, 2009

Dr Martin Blake (non executive director) and Yvonne Cuneo (Business development director) of In Good Company will be among the business leaders at the G’DayUK CEO Forum. Sponsored by CPA Australia and managed on behalf of G’dayUK by Australian Business, this CEO Forum promises to be one of the most significant events in the 2009 business calendar.

At a central and iconic venue within London, In the presence of John Dauth LVO, Australian High Commissioner, speakers are:

• The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
• The Hon Chris Bowen MP, Australian Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs
• Rt Hon Lord Mandelson, UK Secretary of State for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
• Heather Ridout, CEO of the Australian Industry Group

The CEO Forum aims to help to develop closer trade and investment links with the UK (currently the second largest source of investment into Australia). It will provide a platform for knowledge exchange in the face of the worst financial crisis in decades. Delegates will be able to share ideas and update each other on advances in policies and business expertise in each of the four forum areas:

FINANCIAL SERVICES:

“Is Australia’s regulatory framework a beacon for the rest of the world? Why Australia has weathered the international financial storm better than other western economies”

Chair: Richard Petty, President of CPA Australia

• Andrew Hunter, Head of Macquarie Capital Europe, Middle East and Africa
• John McFarlane, Former CEO, ANZ Bank
• Phil Rivett, Global Leader for Financial Services Assurance, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
• John Stewart, Director, Telstra

RESOURCES/FDI:

“After the Super Cycle – state of the resources industry and where to from here. Investment opportunities in Australia and internationally”

Chair: Phil Aiken, Chairman, G’dayUK & Australian Business

• John White, Executive Director, Ignite Energy Resources
• Adam Rowley, Executive Director, Commodities, Macquarie Bank
• Martin Houston, Executive Director, BG Group
• Michael Nossal, Deputy CEO, Enplus Group

CLIMATE CHANGE:

“Investment and business opportunities as we face the greatest climate challenges of our time”

Chair: TBC

• James Cameron, Vice Chairman, Climate Change Capital
• Phil Cox, CEO, International Power
• William Greene, Senior Advisor, Point Carbon
• Derry Newman, CEO, Solarcentury UK

2012 & BEYOND – BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER:

“Winning gold from ‘green’ – looking to London for the most sustainable games ever and for infrastructure opportunities post 2012”

Chair: Rick Allert, Chairman, Tourism Australia

• John Burton, Development Director Stratford City, Westfield
• David Higgins, CEO, Olympic Delivery Authority
• Rod Sheard, Senior Principal, Populous