18-19 May 2010
CBI Conference Centre, London
Trying to reduce your carbon footprint? Learn how to become carbon neutral whilst still maintaining your business growth.
Attend BSI's Carbon Neutrality conference to understand how to become carbon neutral, run a carbon neutral event, or develop carbon neutral products or services. Hear all about the new specification published by British Standards on carbon neutrality and understand how to make immediate improvements in order to reduce your greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
This conference provides an opportunity to hear how organizations from a wide range of industry sectors are tackling carbon neutrality using PAS 2060 (Publicly Available Specification).
Key features and benefits:
- Gain a clear understanding of the steps involved in becoming carbon neutral and how this improves your competitive advantage
- Hear how to maximize the advantages of reducing your carbon emissions and becoming carbon neutral
- Listen to a full explanation of the new PAS 2060 with case study examples of implementation; challenges faced and benefits delivered
- Understand the new Government guidance document on the definition of carbon neutrality – its implications for your organization and relationship with PAS 2060
- Update your knowledge of the UK Government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) and understand what your organization needs to be doing to meet CRC targets
- Discuss the specification with key industry experts who have participated in its development
- Network with industry experts and peers.
- CEOs and managing directors
- Environmental and sustainability consultants
- Sustainability managers and directors
- Climate change managers and directors
- Supply chain managers
- Energy managers
- Environment officers/managers
- Energy consultants
- Energy assessors.
- Carbon Footprinting Uses and Issues
- Carbon Footprint: value to the business
- Lessons from 200+ footprints
- Responding to the challenges posed
- Discussion on challenges perceived and encountered.
- How to go about it - and where are things likely to head?
- Calculating a Carbon footprint according to PAS 2050
- What’s easy, what’s not?
- Pitfalls, hints and tips
- Where to focus efforts.
- From footprint to business case
- Business benefits
- Benchmarking and driving performance
- Designing footprinting programmes to maximise utility
- How to ensure you get value from a footprinting exercise.
- Communicating Product Carbon Footprint information
- Risks and opportunities
- Pros, cons and practicalities of carbon labelling
- Reducing the costs of production through product carbon footprinting
- Discussion on good/bad practice examples. - Conference only - attend the Carbon Neutrality conference on 19 May
- Conference + pre-conference workshop - attend both the conference (19 May) and our pre-conference workshop (18 May)
Early bird discount
The prices quoted below all include a special 20% early bird discount, valid until 8 March 2010. Further discounts are available for public sector companies and SMEs (defined as an organization employing fewer than 250 persons and with an annual turnover not exceeding £45.5 million).
You can also book over the phone by calling the BSI Customer Service team on +44 (0)20 8996 9001
Who should attend?
All those in both the private and public sector responsible for sustainability and environmental management in their business, including:
Pre-conference workshop, 18 May 2010
Carbon Footprinting: from Understanding to Benchmarking
Book your place online:
The quickest and easiest way to book your place at BSI's Carbon Neutrality conference is to fill in our simple online booking form (see prices below). We offer two basic packages:About BSI
BSI is the UK’s National Standards Body, recognized globally for its independence, integrity and innovation in the production of standards and information products that promote and share best practice. BSI works with businesses, consumers and government to represent UK interests and to make sure that British, European and international standards are useful, relevant and authoritative.
For further information please visit http://www.bsigroup.com/.
