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THE ENVEC ARCHIVE
OF RECENT & KEY CONFERENCE PAPERS
- including the sound recording of Alan Knight's
ENVEC 2007 presentation "If products could talk!"

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”