Carbon Footprinting: Perspectives from Australian Businesses
6 August 2010 - 10:45am - 1:00pm
The Carbon Innovators Network launched the Carbon Footprinting: Perspectives from Australian Businesses report. Developed by EPA Victoria and Global Sustainability at RMIT, it explores some of the drivers, barriers, benefits and industry issues associated with carbon footprinting.
The event was co-chaired by Jason Borg (Director, Business Development, EPA Victoria) and Caroline Bayliss (Director, Global Sustainability at RMIT). Representatives from businesses involved in the research discussed their experience of carbon footprinting.
Video and presentations:
- Introduction Jason Borg EPA Victoria
- Carbon Footprinting Research Findings Mae Ercolani EPA Victoria
Video Presentation - Alto Hotel Gary Strickland Video Presentation
- City of Yarra Peter Whittle Video Presentation
- Toyota Andreas Kammel Video Presentation
- Question and Answer session
- How will the City of Yarra achieve 30% carbon reduction? Video
- How did the City of Yarra engage their staff in the carbon footprinting process? Video
- What experiences have you had in dealing with suppliers and requesting data for carbon footprinting purposes? Video
- Will the EPA be implementing carbon calculators for businesses? And how accurate do footprints need to be for businesses? Video
- How are organisations capturing their carbon footprinting data? Video
- How much of the Alto Hotel's carbon reductions are attributable to the original design as opposed to efforts, upgrades and staff behaviour? Video
- What is the overall footprint associated with the production of a Toyota Camry and how reliable is the data? Video
- Is there an industry standard to ensure retailers supply data in accessible formats for carbon footprinting? Video
- What does Toyota do when they can't relate data to a specific product? Video
- Does Toyota have a system in place to look beyond their direct suppliers and how they collect data from their suppliers? Video
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