Conferences

Summary

The Environmental Compliance & Management Summit (November 18-20, 2009, the Grace Hotel, Sydney) is a cross-industry forum, with streamed sessions that you can choose to match your requirements.

The summit profiles over 20 case studies from organisations benefiting from their environmental compliance and sustainability initiatives. Also hear from Federal Govt about legislative developments in the CPRS and EPBC Acts.

The conference spans the range of issues across: carbon, water, waste, energy, land contamination, biodiversity and green buildings.

Also gain best practice case studies on environmental risk management, environmental performance metrics as well as reporting and auditing frameworks. The conference also covers voluntary sustainability and corporate responsibility initiatives.

Join us at the Environmental Compliance & Management Summit to network with leading environmental and sustainability professionals. 

Lead Partner:

SAP Partners:

Workshop Partner:

Chair Day 1:

Day 2 Chair Stream A: Sustainability, Waste & Green Star Ratings

Day 2 Chair Stream B: Land Contamination, Biodiversity, Water & Energy

Partners:

Learning Objectives

• Preparing for CPRS & NGERS
• CPRS Exposure draft legislation overview
• Taking a proactive approach to the rapidly changing and complex regulatory environment
• Managing the cost impact of carbon trading legislation
• Developing a social & environmental reporting framework
• Environmental performance metrics: implementing meaningful and measurable performance targets
• Greening your supply chain
• Sustainable initiatives to drive your business objectives
• Meeting the challenge of changing waste management requirements : National Waste Policy, e-Waste Recycling Scheme
• Energy efficiency approaches as part of an integrated Climate Change strategy
• Leading a cultural change for environmental efficiencies
• Natural Resources and Biodiversity Management: EPBC Act & BioBanking Scheme
• Water Management: Reduce – Reuse – Recycle
• Remediation of contaminated sites
• Green Buildings and a sustainable built environment

Speakers

Some speakers currently confirmed to speak at the conference include:

• Warwick Armstrong, Director of Business Outreach & Support, Department of Climate Change
• Steve Mercer, Director - EPBC Act Compliance, Compliance and Enforcement Branch, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
• Dr. Bruce Kennedy, Executive Officer, Environmental Protection & Heritage Council
• Chris Collier, General Manager Environment, Railcorp
• Martin O’Neill, Manager – Operational Excellence, Caltex
  
• Graham Bruce, General Manager, Corporate Responsibility & Quality, TNT Australia
• Todd Nichols, Environment Manager, Mackay Sugar Ltd.
• Albert Lo, Property Asset Manager, North Sydney Council
• Rosemary Bissett, Group Manager, Sustainable Business Practices, National Australia Bank
• Robert Poole, General Manager – Industry & Government Affairs, Murray Goulburn Cooperative
• Janet Leslie, National Quality, Environment & Safety Manager, Canon
• Timothy Spawton, SHE Manager - Environment and Sustainability, BAE Systems
• Bjoern Wilhelms, Sustainability Manager, Australian Arrow
• Jennifer Williams, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Corporate Express
• Atena Malamiri, Sustainability Manager, Buildcorp Interiors
• Steve Bourke, Group Manager – Sustainability, United Group
• Duha Zaater, Environmental Sustainability Initiative Coordinator, University of Technology Sydney
• Andrew Daff, Manager, Lane Cove River Tourist Park, Department of Environment and Climate Change
• Hamish Manzi, Regional Environmental Manager, John Holland Group
• Kylee Carpenter, Group Environmental Advisor, St John of God Health Care
  
• Lincoln Turvey, Group Environmental Manager - Australian Mining Business Unit, Thiess
• Glen Hadfield, Manager - Asset & Sustainability Systems, Sydney West Area Health Services
• Robert Stephens, Executive Manager – Environment, Hornsby Shire Council
• Des Richardson, Senior Specialist – Process Chemistry, Norske Skog
• Greg Lavery, Principal, Booz & Co. 
• Patrick Ibbotson, Partner, Blake Dawson

Conference Agenda

Day One – November 19, 2009

8.30  Registration

8.50 Opening Remarks from Chair

Robert Pedler, Chief Executive Officer,  Zer01 Pty Ltd

Keynote:
9.00 CPRS Exposure draft legislation overview

• Review the legislative package for carbon pollution reduction and the objects of the Bill
• Gain an update on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and what to expect after the Copenhagen meeting
• Get insights into scheme caps and gateways, permit allocation, and fuel tax offsets
• Gain insight into the mechanisms for Australia to create and acquire Kyoto units from other countries under the Kyoto Protocol
• Understand the impact on business including emissions-intensive, trade-exposed (EITE) industries and electricity sector

Warwick Armstrong, Director - Business Outreach, Greenhouse Energy and Reporting Office, Department of Climate Change

CPRS & NGERS

Case Study:
9.40 Preparing for Greenhouse Gas reporting & other carbon related reporting and disclosures

• Gauge the reasons for disclosure of greenhouse and carbon related information - why do it?
• Identify the regulatory and voluntary requirements for disclosure of greenhouse and carbon related information
• Preparing for greenhouse gas  and carbon data and information disclosure, including the NGER Act
• Greenhouse and carbon related disclosures and the Trade Practices Act
• Future directions for reporting of greenhouse and environmental disclosures

Rosemary Bissett, Head of Sustainability Governance & Risk, National Australia Bank

Case Study:

10.20 Environmental management and sustainability across the supply chain --“from Cow to Consumer”

• Preparing for CPRS & NGERS – identifying and overcoming key challenges:
  -    NGERS determination
  -    Data management
  -    Measuring emissions in dynamic supply chains
• Review some current projects to improve energy efficiency, reduce costs and emissions and create renewable energy
• Recycling and reusing water:
  -    Improved ways to increase water recycling within the factory and local reuse of treated wastewaters
  -    Setting up ongoing KPIs for all manufacturing sites to reduce water use
• Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions:
  -    Saving electricity and steam at farm and factory level
  -    Implementing an alternative fuel conversion program and innovations in refrigeration
• Waste management through packaging minimisation

Robert Poole, General Manager – Industry & Government Affairs, Murray Goulburn Cooperative

11.00 Morning Tea

Pro-active compliance

11:30 Facilitating environmental compliance management & control

• Defining sustainability and key problems faced
• Driving a cost effective compliance program – meeting growing & changing environmental regulations
  - across the region
  - at both plant & corporate levels
• Understand enablers to drive a successful sustainability strategy

Derren Green, Director Sustainability APJ, SAP  

12.10 Creating sustainable business value - an integrated approach

• Radical improvement fo current apporaches to sustainability
• Challenges for business to realise improvements
• Leveraging your IT investments and management systems
• Inspiring change a business case

Deane Bellfield, Sustainability and Climate Change Leader, Business Shapers

EMS, Reporting Frameworks and Metrics

Case Study:
1.50 Developing a social & environmental reporting framework

• Gain insight into report development methodology
• Conducting business analysis: Situation, Problem, Impact, Reporting (SPIR)
•  Consideration of internal and external reporting requirements
• Alignment with guiding principles and global reporting standards
• Environmental Leadership - Environmental Management beyond compliance

Bjoern Wilhelms, Sustainability Manager, Australian Arrow
Finalist, UN World Environment Day Awards 2009
Frankston & Mornington Peninsula Sustainable Business Hall of Fame, 2007
Winner, Banksia Gold Environmental Awards 2006
Keep Australia Beautiful Environmental Innovation Award, 2006

Case Study:
2.30 Environmental performance metrics: challenges and opportunities

• Establishing a baseline for implementing meaningful and measurable performance targets
• Aligning performance metrics with environmental and sustainability initiatives
• Tracking and reporting environmental performance to address emerging sustainability issues and demonstrate proactive environmental management
• Using analytical tools to identify strengths and weaknesses and focus performance improvement strategies
• Implement metrics to leverage and promote environmental policy objectives, obtain senior management buy-in and foster stakeholder collaboration

Todd Nichols, Environment Manager, Mackay Sugar Ltd.

3.10 Afternoon Tea

Carbon: emissions reduction & cost management

3.40 Managing the cost impacts of the carbon trading legislation

• Understanding the direct and indirect costs of the CPRS to your organisation
• Minimising direct costs through permit sourcing strategies 
• Managing supplier contracts to reduce indirect costs
• Pricing strategies to minimise profit damage from the CPRS

Greg Lavery, Principal, Booz & Co.

Sustainable sourcing

Case Study:
4.20 Achieving sustainability in your supply chain

• Developing and implementing a sustainable sourcing framework and associated tools to assess sustainability risk
• Identifying aspects of supply chain management that are most receptive to a sustainability initiative – where to invest first?
• Implementing mitigations for high and medium risk sourcing activities
• Integrating sustainability into decision making processes for sourcing
• Leveraging sustainable sourcing to gain competitive advantage: grow revenue, reduce costs and build intangible assets

Jennifer Williams, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Corporate Express

Sustainable Company of the Year, 8th Australian Sustainability Awards by Ethical Investor Magazine

5:00 Close of day one

Day Two – November 20, 2009

Stream A – Sustainability, Waste & Green Star Ratings

8:30 Registration

8:50 Welcome from the Chair

Stuart Dickinson, General Manager - Solution Delivery, Oxygen Business Solutions   

Sustainability & CSR

Case Study:
9.00 Implementing a sustainability strategy that also drives improved shareholder returns

• Adopting an organisation-wide approach to sustainability - integrating sustainability principles into the organisation’s operations
• Taking a top-down approach - seeking endorsement from senior management and developing the framework
• Establishing systems and processes to collect relevant data and report on progress
• Developing programs to reduce your carbon footprint and costs by reducing energy consumption and promoting energy efficiency
• Implementing energy management initiatives - site energy audits, computer and printer fleet
• Approaches to engage internal & external stakeholders - communicating with the board, staff and customers

Steve Bourke, Group Manager – Sustainability, United Group

Case Study:
9.40 Carbon emissions reduction: Planet Me

•     Gain insight into TNT’s CO2 emissions reduction strategies through their three building blocks:
  -    Count Carbon: measure, report and manage business environmental impact and CO2 emissions
  -    Code Orange: develop and implement emissions reduction projects in identified core business areas
  -    Choose Orange: engage employees, suppliers, customers and community groups to assist in achieving emissions reduction  goals
• Transport strategies to meet energy efficiency and emissions reduction targets
• Complying with ISO 14001 and corporate responsibility goals
• Greening your supply chain: supplier engagement, green procurement

Graham Bruce, General Manager, Corporate Responsibility & Quality, TNT Australia

Case Study:
10.20 Designing, communicating, measuring and reporting sustainability programs

• Expanding the business without expanding your environmental footprint
• Making consolidated efforts across the organisation to drive sustainability in all areas
• Initiating targeted efforts in energy, water, waste, procurement and transport to drive down the environmental impact of existing infrastructure and activity
• Engaging all stakeholders and communicating your sustainability goals
• Auditing, measuring and reporting your sustainability program

Fiona Martin, Environment & Quality Manager, University of Technology Sydney

11.00 Morning Tea

Case Study:
11.30 Sustainable initiatives to drive your business objectives

• Developing a sustainable business model that encompasses all business operations
• Incorporating reduce & reuse as well as alternate generation components in sustainability initiatives:
  -    Carbon Reduction and eradication of carbon footprint
  -    Water management
  -    Habitat creation and biodiversity
  -    Waste minimisation
  -    Pest and weed abatement and management
• Identifying and implementing sustainability strategies that drive down costs and increase revenues
• Converting the sustainability initiatives into marketing plans: creating a point of difference

Andrew Daff, Manager, Lane Cove River Tourist Park, Department of Environment and Climate Change
Winner UN World Environment Day Awards – Environmental Best Practice, 2006

Case Study:
12.10 Keeping pace with a rapidly changing and complex regulatory environment

• Leading organisational change from a safety focus to sustainability and environment focus
• Preparing integrated systems for carbon accounting requirements
• Managing changes in Inter-State legislation around land contamination

Timothy Spawton, SHE Manager - Environment and Sustainability, BAE Systems

12.50 Lunch

Waste

1.50 EPHC perspectives on the management of waste and site contamination

• National Waste Policy – where to now?
• Product stewardship - tyres, televisions and computers – implications for industry
• The assessment of site contamination NEPM – wherefore the variation

Dr. Bruce Kennedy, Executive Director, Environmental Protection & Heritage Council

Case Study:
2.30 Opportunities and challenges for achieving environmental compliance outcomes

• Meeting the challenge of changing waste management frameworks
• Responding to changes in environmental legislation and the needs of customers
• Strategies for the future: opportunities and collaboration

Hamish Manzi, Regional Environmental Manager, John Holland Group

3.10 Afternoon Tea

Case Study:
3.40 E-waste management

• Gain insight into the Extended Producer Responsibility legislation
• Overview of the Australia and NZ situation
• Compare Australian policies with overseas models and trends
• Gauge the impact of the proposed IT and TV EPR legislation on industry

Janet Leslie, Manager Quality, Safety and Environment, Canon Australia

Green Star Ratings

Case Study:
4.20 Green Buildings and a sustainable built environment

• Achieving the balance of lowest implementation cost and optimal reductions in energy and other resources when building green
• Managing and delivering Green Star requirements 
• Greening your suppliers and sub-contractors: sourcing informed, capable and competent subcontractors and a green supply chain

Atena Malamiri, Sustainability Manager, Buildcorp Interiors

5.00 Close of Conference

Day Two

Stream B – Land contamination, Biodiversity, Water, Energy

Natural Resources and Biodiversity Management

8:30 Registration

8:50  Welcome from the Chair
Stuart Dickinson, General Manager - Solution Delivery, Oxygen Business Solutions  

Keynote:
9.00 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act

• Grasp key legal concepts of the EPBC Act:
  -    When it may or may not apply to a development
  -    Compliance and enforcement provisions of the act
• Understand how the department is managing creative compliance outcomes with business
• Recent case studies: what businesses should be aware of
• Gain insight into outcomes and recommendations from the EPBC Act Review
  -    Review additional contemporary issues that may be added to the list of triggers
  -    The focus on strategic assessments
• Explore the impact of the review, and possible expected changes to the EPBC Act Review

Steve Mercer, Director - EPBC Act Compliance, Compliance and Enforcement Branch, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

Case Study:
9.40 Implementing biodiversity offsets and energy performance initiatives

• Managing 'biodiversity credits' under the BioBanking Scheme
• Designing and implementing an offsets policy
• Gain insight into the step-by-step offsetting process and calculating the offset
• Review key offset options:
  -    Protection
  -    Enhance and protect
  -    Create and protect
• Strategic policies to reduce greenhouse gases:
  -    Implementing a comprehensive performance contract and a sustainable energy strategy
  -    Cost effective cogeneration air conditioning system

Robert Stephens, Executive Manager – Environment, Hornsby Shire Council

Energy Efficiency

Case Study:
10.20 Energy efficiency approaches as part of an integrated Climate Change strategy

• Implementing an energy efficiency program across assets
• Incrementally increasing your Green Power percentage
• Initiation of a green purchasing program 
• Improved tracking of energy use through monitoring (Planet Footprint)

Albert Lo, Property Asset Manager, North Sydney Council
Winner, Green Globe Award - Environmental Sustainability 2008

11.00 Morning Tea

Case Study:
11.30 Integrating energy efficiency approaches into your business

• Conducting energy efficiency assessments to identify opportunities and challenges
• Reporting and communicating the EEO process
• Taking an integrated business response to CC-issues: Compliance requirements under EEO – NGER – CPRS 
• Understanding and overcoming the implications of the Global Financial Crisis for your energy efficiency program

Lincoln Turvey, Group Environmental Manager - Australian Mining Business Unit, Thiess

Case Study:
12.10 Leading a cultural change for energy efficiency

• Setting up standards, policies and clear targets for energy efficiency initiatives
• Assessing your organisation’s capacity for change - overcoming challenges in a risk averse culture
• Gaining executive support and identifying energy champions within staff to lead the change
• Improving energy efficiency in existing facilities
• Implementing viable and cost-effective cogeneration technologies

Glen Hadfield, Manager - Asset & Sustainability Systems, Sydney West Area Health Services

12.50 Lunch

Water

Case Study:
1.50 Water Management: Reduce – Reuse – Recycle

• Getting the  best value from water by implementing innovative reuse and recycling strategies – review the Norske Skog Green Offsets Project
• Improving water availability by altering effluent quality and managing the environmental impact
• Gain insight into key desalination processes and strategies 
• Water conservation – implementing water saving efficiencies

Des Richardson, Senior Specialist – Process Chemistry, Norske Skog

Leveraging off compliance

Case Study
2.30 Using environmental regulation as an opportunity

• Meeting environmental regulatory requirements
• Capturing environmental data for NGERs
• Investing in sustainability initiatives – a business Environmental Capital Expenditure fund
• Tracking return on investment of environmental initiatives
• Environmental challenges and opportunities – waste, water, energy and carbon

Kylee Carpenter, Group Environmental Advisor, St John of God Health Care

3.10 Afternoon Tea

Land

Case Study:
3.40 Remediation of contaminated sites

• Underground tanks and associated contamination risk management strategies
• Conducting risk assessments of possible contamination and leaks at various sites
• Operating across varied land contamination legislation in each State

Martin O’Neill, Manager – Operational Excellence, Caltex

4.20 Land contamination regulatory requirements

• Review changes to recent state based land contamination legislation – in particular, NSW
• Overcoming cross-border issues
• Limiting legal risk on sites already at risk – for Greenfield and Brownfield projects
• Review recent case law

Patrick Ibbotson, Partner, Blake Dawson

5.00 Close of Conference

Workshop Agenda

Pre-conference Workshops – November 18, 2009

Workshop A:

9.00 Centralising environmental performance reporting and compliance under a range of regulations

(including Morning Tea)

• Reporting under current regulatory requirements for carbon, energy and water
• Managing, analysing, and reporting environmental data
• Integrating carbon reporting and compliance under a range of legislations and mandatory programs including EEO – NGERS – CPRS – NPT?
• Data entry and verification – the big challenge in information management to ensure high quality auditable data for accurate and reliable reporting
• Output reporting requirements – downloading to government reporting systems
• Consolidating and centralising data under varied legislative requirements
• Software options – building applications on ERP systems, specialised applications that download to ERP’s, spreadsheets and manual approaches
• Analyse costs and benefits of information management platforms versus spreadsheet applications
• Meeting audit requirements and impact of information management systems

David Mitchell, Principal Consultant, Carbon Solutions, Energetics

12.30 Lunch

Workshop B:

1.30 Conducting an environmental risk assessment

(including Afternoon Tea)

• Environmental auditing:
  - Assessing areas of your business that impact the environment
  - Prioritising resources to reduce impact on the environment
• Risk management to check compliance with environmental legislation
• Key strategies for EMS development and implementation
• Conducting compliance assessment and developing risk mitigation strategies
• Reporting: demonstrating accountability to third parties such as government, customers and shareholders
• Effective consultation and negotiation with agencies

Robin Ormerod, Founder and Senior Principal, Pacific Environment Ltd and PAEHolmes

5.00 Close of workshops

Pricing
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