SCPnet Networking Event 2008

Sustainable Consumption and Production Network

Held in London on the 17th September 2008, key representatives from a variety of organisations met to discuss key challenges and to swap experiences.

Graham Tubb, Chief Sustainability advisor to SEEDA, chaired the morning session, featuring a series of presentations on Climate Change:

	Carbon Accounting – Methodological Challenges Kate Levick (Carbon Disclosure Project) spoke about efforts to encourage private and public entities to report their carbon emissions. Disclosure is an important step towards reducing emissions.
	Carbon Budgets Katherine White (Office of Climate Change) discussed prospects for long-term emissions reductions ahead of the forthcoming report to the Committee on Climate Change.
	Effecting Behaviour Change Philip Stamp and Andrea Collier (DEFRA) gave an insight into DEFRA’s programme to understand and facilitate household behavioural change. This was followed by a discussion of local prospects for sustainable consumption in each of the regions.

The afternoon session included a series of networking workshops:

	Carbon Accounting Approaches to measuring the carbon emissions in the wake of the Climate Change Bill.
	Spatial Modelling Brian MacAulay (West Midlands Observatory) & David Mell (ONE)  led discussions on how spatial models can inform policy making.