ACT TravelWise 2nd Annual Conference and AGM - The Crunch Question
Date: 19 March 2009
Location: All regions
Contact: To book a place download the booking form or contact Helen at: helenm@ptrc-training.co.uk or call 0207348 1970 for more details.
The Crunch Question
This conference will look at the response of the Smarter Choices field to the continued need to reduce CO2 emissions and the potential effects of the rising cost of oil, during an economic downturn.
During these unprecedented times with global financial markets in turmoil, there is considerable worry that many environmental initiatives, including travel plans and other smarter choice measures, may face difficulties in maintaining funding. However with impending crises of Climate Change and Peak Oil, there has never been a more urgent need for behavioural change interventions to encourage and support people in finding sustainable alternatives to single occupancy car travel.
This conference will first outline the seriousness of the problems we face. Su-Lin Garnett former private secretary to Lord Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern Review, which gave an economic value to CO2 emissions and in declared the dire economic consequences of doing nothing, has been invited to give a keynote speech to outline the possible impacts of the new economic situation. Jeremy Leggett, former oil industry geologist and author of Half Gone and the Carbon Wars, will give a presentation outlining the real dangers posed to society by changes to the environment and peak oil. Keith Buchan, who has just completed a major project setting out transport policies needed to achieve an 80% reduction in carbon emissions in the UK, will then highlight the likely impacts on sustainable transport of the credit crunch.
In the second session we will look at practical responses to these issues including; credit crunch travel plans, the potential for travel plans to encompass social inclusion, the benefits of business travel networks in providing opportunities for lower cost procurement, and how carbon trading could be used to fund smarter choices.
In the final session we will cover new emerging organisations and movements, which are designed, to encourage behaviour change. We will look at the Transition Towns movement; a peak oil strategy deployed in Dortmund, and we will finish the day with a panel debate.
Attached document: ACTTravelWiseConference2009.pdf
More Information: helenm@ptrc-training.co.uk
