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ENVEC 2009, 8^th October 2009, Winter Gardens Pavilion, Weston-super-Mare

ENVEC 2009 was sponsored and supported by Government Office for the South West, EDF Energy, Environment Agency, Energy Saving Trust, and Climate SouthWest (formerly known as SWCCIP) and was organised to support the annual event programmes of the South West Energy and Environmental Management Groups.

The presentation papers from ENVEC 2009 can be downloaded here:-

How can the economic recovery be green? (pdf 131kb) - Peter Madden, Chief Executive, Forum for the Future (text only version)

Keeping the lights on for business in a low carbon economy (pdf 777kb) - Sid Cox, Director, B2B, EDF Energy

Emission impossible? - the path to cutting the UK's CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050 (pdf 1Mb) - Fraser Winterbottom, Chief Operating Officer, Energy Saving Trust

Expert Briefing Session: Demonstrating the UKCP09 climate change projections (pdf 766kb) - by UK Climate Impacts Programme (Dr Paul Bowyer)

Expert Briefing Session: Carbon Reduction Commitment - the monitoring phase (pdf 666kb) - by EDF Energy (Shayne Rees)

Expert Briefing Session: Business continuity in a changing climate - would your business stay afloat? (pdf 2.1Mb) - by Environment Agency (Mark Russell)

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ENVEC 2008, 2^nd October 2008, Winter Gardens Pavilion, Weston-super-Mare

UKCIP08 - using the new climate change scenarios from the UK Climate Impacts Programme (pdf 2.2Mb) - Roger Street, Technical Director, UK Climate Impacts Programme

SW Climate Change Action Plan (pdf 1.2Mb) - Dr Richard Cresswell, Regional Director, Environment Agency (SW)

Delivering sustainable solutions - a major energy supplier's view (pdf 1.2Mb) - Angus Norman, Managing Director of Sustainable Solutions, EDF Energy

Low carbon transport (pdf 1.1Mb) - Professor Glenn Lyons, Director & Professor of Transport & Society, University of the West of England

Expert Briefing Session: Motivating others - techniques for engaging management, workforce and your supply chain on resource efficiency (pdf 3Mb) - by Envirowise (Mark Shayler)

Expert Briefing Session: Carbon Neutral Buildings - the what and the how (pdf 1.3Mb) - by Faber Maunsell (Stephen Ward)

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ENVEC 2007, 10^th October 2007, Winter Gardens Pavilion, Weston-super-Mare

Low carbon economy - achieving the necessary step change (pdf 215kb)
    - Anne Sharp, Director, Domestic Climate Change & Energy, Defra

If products could talk! (pdf 4.2Mb)*
    - Alan Knight, Commissioner on Sustainable Consumption, Sustainable Development Commission

*You can download the sound recording of Alan Knight's ground-breaking presentation by clicking on the links below. It is recommended that you open (download) the pdf document of his presentation also and view the slides as you listen.
Note. These sound recording MP3 files can be played on your PC using Windows Media Player software or similar or can be downloaded to your MP3 player.

  Alan Knight's presentation "If products could talk!" - sound :-

  i) Slides 1-5 (mp3 4.6Mb) Introduction, If the planet was a company and you were on the Board

  ii) Slides 5-16 (mp3 5.2Mb) Expanding the supply base - suppliers growing with customer growth, buying scale, one planet economy, customer satisfaction

  iii) Slides 17-13 (mp3 5.2Mb) Talk to your products about the issues of the world (garden bench, patio heater & organic honey)

  iv) Slides 24-30 (mp3 9.3Mb) Impact assessment, WEEE Man, shipping imported products by stealth, product policy

  v) Slides 31-42 (mp3 4.1Mb) What about China? Innovation and inspiration for a one planet economy. Concluding summary

Financial risks in a changing climate (pdf 194kb)
    - Dr Swenja Surminski, Policy Adviser, Association of British Insurers

Six Degrees - Our Future on a Hotter Planet + Fair Shares, Fair Choice (pdf 3Mb)
    - Mark Lynas, climate change author, newspaper columnist and campaigner
    + Sylvie Channon, SSW (Fair Shares, Fair Choice)

Expert Briefing Session: Low carbon design of goods and services (pdf 2.8Mb)
    - by Envirowise (Mark Shayler)

Expert Briefing Session: Energy management for the 21st Century (pdf 1.7Mb)
    - by EDF Energy (Pierre-Jean Lahourcade)

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ENVEC 2006, 4^th October 2006, Winter Gardens Pavilion, Weston-super-Mare

The ENVEC 2006 guest speaker was Jonathon Porritt, Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission. Jonathon spoke on the subject of 'Where is the Sustainable Development agenda going?' (power point slides were not used). You can download here information on the 'Fair Shares, Fair Choice' carbon reduction project for the South West announced by Jonathon during his presentation: Fair Shares, Fair Choice (PDF 67kb).

Key points made by Jonathon Porritt during his presentation on the emerging consensus on climate change were:-

• Extraordinary and shocking acceleration in climate change
• Massive & overwhelming evidence of change
• Recognition of the need to restrict global temp rise to < 2 degrees C
• IPCC 4th Assessment Report ( due 2007): 450 ppm CO2 = a 50% chance of irreversible change; 550 ppm CO2 = a 100% chance of irreversible change
• Facing non-linear change - reinforcement loops - trigger / tipping points
• 10 years to make a difference
• Engineer a huge transformation - a non-linear response
• The alternative is the inevitable disintegration of society
• Politicians in denial - how to broker with the electorate?
• Opposition to wind power in the South West is "seriously out of date"

UK energy supply & demand to 2020 (pdf 306kb)
    - Professor Martin Fry, Vice President of the Energy Institute

UK energy trends in the context of the UK Energy Review 2006 - a supplier's perspective (pdf 1.4Mb)
    - Ravi Baga, Director of Environment and Market Regulation, EDF Energy

Waste - the growing challenge (pdf 687kb)
    - Dr Richard Cresswell, Regional Director, Environment Agency (SW)

Expert Briefing Session: Environmental Legislation - Lyons Davidson, Bristol (pdf 1Mb)

Expert Briefing Session: Eco-design - reducing the environmental impact and costs within goods and services - Envirowise (pdf 2.1Mb)

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ENVEC 2005, 12^th October 2005, Winter Gardens Pavilion, Weston-super-Mare

Avoiding dangerous climate change (pdf 806kb)
    - Andrew Lee, Director of Campaigns, WWF-UK, Godalming.

The South West's economy and environment - presentation text (pdf 49kb)
    - Claire Gibson, Head of Planning, Transport & Environment, SW RDA

UK energy waste - the Carbon Trust experience (pdf 911kb)
    - John Pooley, The John Pooley Consultancy, Worcestershire

Developments in lighting (pdf 5.5Mb)
    - David Ellis, Product Marketing Manager, Osram Ltd, Langley

Expert Briefing Session: Exporting on-site renewable electricity - EDF Energy & WPD (pdf 1.4Mb)

Expert Briefing Session: Environmental Legislation - Bevan Brittan (pdf 1Mb)

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ENVEC 2003, 8^th October 2003, Winter Gardens Pavilion, Weston-super-Mare

The conference presentation "Influencing senior management - getting it wrong" from John Pooley of The John Pooley Consultancy has been incorporated with John Pooley's 2002 presentation into a unique and highly popular guide by GOSW and Envirowise entitled "Resource Efficiency & Corporate Responsibility - Managing Change".

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ENVEC 2002, 9^th October 2002, Winter Gardens Pavilion, Weston-super-Mare

ENVEC 2002 keynote address and plenary response by The Rt Hon Michael Meacher MP, Minister of State, Defra:
2002 Keynote address and plenary response.

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ENVEC 1995, 11^th October 1995, Riviera International Conference Centre, Torquay

Text of the ENVEC 1995 ground-breaking* address by Roger Levett of CAG Consultants:
The environmental and business case for sustainable development, Roger Levett (pdf 1,273kb).

* This was probably one of the first conference presentations in the UK (a first for the SW) making the business case for sustainable development.

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Click on links for papers from past ENVECs:-

  ENVEC 2009

  ENVEC 2008

  ENVEC 2007

  ENVEC 2006

  ENVEC 2005

  ENVEC 2003

  ENVEC 2002

  ENVEC 1995

Note. The graphics have been removed from some presentations to make the files more suitable for downloading from the web.

See also the ENVEC Picture Gallery for images of past ENVECs.

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