After Copenhagen: The new climate change and energy challenges for Scotland and the UK

A one day conference on Friday 5th March 2010, The George Hotel, 19-21 George Street, Edinburgh

Keynote Speakers:

Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, Secretary for State for Energy and Climate Change, UK Government

Stewart Stevenson MSP, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change, Scottish Government

Chair: Evan Williams, Al Gore's "The Climate Project", UK

Other Speakers include:

John Stocks, Manager, Scotland, The Carbon Trust

Andrew McCree, Chief Executive, AEA

Professor Pete Smith, Royal Society - Wolfson Professor of Soils & Global Change, FSB, FRSE The University of Aberdeen

Richard Copland, Senior Sustainability Consultant, Logica Scotland

Vicky Pope, Head of Climate Change Advice, The Met Office

The UN climate conference in Copenhagen is a defining point in the relationship between carbon, the planet and the future of humanity. It is the end point of lengthy negotiations and the beginning of a new low carbon era. Emissions control and trading, exploiting low-carbon technology opportunities and delivering the range of renewable energy sources will become the central challenges.

Business, public bodies and individuals need to understand the way in which they will be affected, what they can do to help achieve targets and what the evolving new low carbon economy will mean for them. After Copenhagen we have the opportunity to ensure the long-term competitiveness of British and Scottish business and unlock the potential of a low carbon future. The new market for low carbon technologies could be worth $1 trillion in the first five years of its implementation.

With the announcement of proposals for major carbon capture projects, £1.4 billion of extra public investment in support of the low-carbon sector and the UK as a world leader in offshore wind development initiatives, the prospect of a low carbon economy and sustainable growth is moving from theory into practice.

This conference will examine how the EU emission trading scheme will work, how Scotland and the UK can work together to deliver on emission reduction targets, what the core policy initiatives are which will underpin radical steps toward achieving those targets and what all this means for the future of public and private sector carbon footprints.

Attend this conference to hear from those who shaped Copenhagen and those who will make real its promise on what the strategic challenges and opportunities now are.

If you have any queries about this conference or would like to find out more, please email lmcclelland@mackayhannah.com