Programme

Morning

09:00  Arrive

09:30  Welcome from the Chair

Malcolm Fergusson

09:40  The Policy Aspects of the CRC

Jane Dennett-Thorpe – Department of Energy and Climate Change

10:00  You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure - Getting a Clear View On Your Carbon Footprint

  • Establishing a comprehensive inventory of carbon emissions and other environmental impacts
  • Achieving cost savings by identifying opportunities for energy, waste, and emissions reductions within and outside operational boundaries
  • Managing carbon reduction and sustainability initiatives with goals and forecasting
  • Streamlining CRC carbon registry reporting, communications, and compliance
  • Evaluating reduction projects and optimise efficiency investments

 Martin McCann - SAP UK

10:20  The Treatment of Organisation Structures in CRC

  • Defining Your Organisation: Overseas Ownership, Joint Ventures & Significant Group Undertakings
  • How CCA Exemptions Apply
  • Managing Participation in Franchise Organisations
  • The Revised Responsibility for Supply Rule: What it Means in Practice

Mark Johnson - AEA

10:40   Q&A

10:50   Coffee

11:20   Introduction to CRC Sales: Auctions and Carbon Trading

  • Routes for purchasing allowances
  • Key steps in the auction process
  • Considerations for auction preparation

Max Jamieson – ICF International

11:40   Lessons from Shadow Carbon Trading in the UK

  • Experiences from the three virtual trading schemes the LGiU is running
  • Main learning points
  • Future strategies of the LGiU to help the public sector prepare for CRC - EES

Karen Lawrence – LGIU

12:00   The League Table & Recycling Payments

  • What are the key factors for determining the league table position
  • What are the factors that are most important for the first year of the scheme
  • What are the key factors that influence recycling payments
  • How are recycling payments calculated

Steph Hague – Enviros

12:20   Title TBC

Simon Mendham – Land Securities

12:40  Q&A

12:50  Lunch


Afternoon


13:50   Title TBC

  • TBC

Patrick Brown – British Property Federation

14:10  CRC and the Retail Perspective

  • An overview of the CRC and the implications the retail sector faces in managing it
  • What CRC means for retailers
  • A Better Retailing Climate – what the retail sector has already achieved
  • Moving forward

Elizabeth Hinde  – British Retail Consortium

14:30  CRC: The Legal Implications

  • The new Regulations and Guidance and their legal status
  • What are your legal responsibilities and liabilities
  • Issues in new and existing leases for landlords and tenants
  • How does it impact on the public sector
  • The contractual issues for groups and JVs
  • Penalties for non compliance

Andrew Wiseman Stephenson Harwood

14:50  The cost of the CRC

  • Modelling the costs over the next 10 years
  • The impact of energy saving programmes
  • Does timing matter? When to make savings

Abigail Dean - Jones Lang LaSalle Ltd

15:10  Q&A

15:20   Coffee
 
15:50   Case Study: How Manufacturers are Dealing with the CRC in the Midlands

  • How the CRC affects manufacturing businesses
  • Where the key opportunities are
  • Case studies  
  • What companies need to do to prepare

Alessandra McConville – EEF: The Manufacturers Organisation

16:10  The Strategic Implications of the CRC and How to Survive a Carbon Audit

  • KPMG share their experience of working with clients in a range of sectors helping them develop their carbon reporting systems and performing audits in a similar manner to those we expect from the regulator
  • They will also provide guidance on how to build more robust carbon reporting systems that reduce risk and save time

Ben Wielgus – KPMG

16:30  Ensure your CRC Strategy and other Green initiatives Add Real Bottom Line Value to Your Business or Organisation 

  • See how with careful implementation the government’s CRC legislation can help you significantly reduce costs and reduce your carbon foot print
  • See how to reduce costs in your existing buildings whilst at the same time making them more sustainable and greener!
  • Find out why there’s a growing rush towards renewable energy.  Is it because the paybacks are now less than four years?
  • How do you ensure your business or organisation continues along the sustainable path whilst still making the promised bottom line returns?
  • See how all the Green initiatives and legislation can work together in your business and help it perform better

Barry Paschali - PASCHALI - Engineering & Management Consulting

16:50   Carbon Reduction and the West Midlands Region

  • The role of Sustainability West Midlands
  • The range of business support currently available in the Midlands region for carbon reduction activity
  • The Business Futures project – which is working with larger companies in the West Midlands and their supply chains on carbon reduction
  • Key regional messages around business and the carbon reduction and opportunities agenda

John Barraclough – Sustainability West Midlands

17:10  Q&A

17:20  Close

  


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