• The new Department of Energy and Climate Change
• The twin challenges of climate change and energy supply
• Adapting to Climate Change Programme
• The Climate Change Bill – a legally binding framework to cut carbon emissions
• The CERT Scheme
• The future energy mix – where are we heading?
• Securing the Future - How are we doing?
• Sustainable development and the government estate
• Adapting to climate change programme
• Ensuring and measuring success
• The Local and Regional Climate Change Partnership Board
• Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships
• Local government performance indicators
• Creating sustainable communities

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, Minister for Sustainable Development and Energy Innovation and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, DEFRA and DECC (CONFIRMED)

• How has the government done?
• Delivering a sustainable energy system
• The UK renewable energy strategy
• The built environment and the government estate
• The role of aviation in a sustainable economy
• Sustainable consumption and business
• Financing local futures
• Developing leadership on sustainable development
• Where do we go from here?

Sustainability: The Obligation of the Product Suppliers

• How to research and develop sustainable solutions
• The commercial proposition for the public sector
• Best practice in action
• The future of truly sustainable development

David Walker, Director of Sales, Dyson (CONFIRMED)

• A Carbon Reduction Strategy for the Transport Sector
• How to reduce costs and carbon emissions from business related travel
• Building sustainable transport into new development
• A Towards a Sustainable Transport System (TaSTS)
• A new approach to strategic transport planning beyond 2014
• A carbon reduction strategy for transport
• Long term challenges and goals
• Low carbon fuel alternatives
• Maximizing the impact of low carbon technologies across our networks
• The challenges – quality of life and the natural environment
• The TaSTS timetable

• The challenges of climate change, food and water security
• The role of agriculture in mitigating and adapting to climate change
• World food output must rise to feed a growing, wealthier population
• The new Foresight  project on Future global food production and farming and the implications for the UK
• A greater role for genetically modified crops?
• All biofuels should meet strict sustainability criteria
• A diverse low-carbon energy mix
• The long term challenges are significant, but can be overcome

• The Climate Change Adaptation Study
• London - a low carbon city with a commitment to cut emissions by 60% by 2025
• Ten high technology low carbon zones across London by 2012
• Communities and buildings to become energy efficient
• Home insulation and buildings retrofitted with energy saving devices
• Locally generated renewable energy schemes
• Working in collaboration with energy suppliers and the London Energy Partnership
• The Priority Parks Funding Scheme
• Making recycling easier for London’s businesses
• The C40 cities commitment to tackling climate change
• The Climate Change Action Plan – How have things progressed?

• Our complex world
• Our dependence on energy and carbon-based fuels
• The CO2 surge in the atmosphere
• The evidence that human induced climate change is happening and is serious
• The impacts on ice and climate
• The wedge approach - technological and social change
• How are we doing?
• The unique vexing nature of the problem
• The need for partnership and leadership

• Green taxes and emissions trading
• Aviation taxation that targets the most polluting aircraft and incentivises cleaner and fuller planes
• Replacing the climate change levy with a carbon levy
• Encouraging energy companies to switch to cleaner energy sources
• The Fair Fuel Stabiliser – a more efficient environmental tax
• The global market for green goods and technologies
• The world’s first trading market for green technologies
• Promoting the development and deployment of micro-generation and other environmental goods and services
• Green ISA’s – the economic benefit of green investment
• Innovative new ways of encouraging the public to go green

• The need to develop a diverse low-carbon energy mix
• The Planning BIll
• The UK Renewable Energy Strategy Consultation
• Coal-fired Power Stations and the development of carbon capture and storage
• Exploiting the full potential of energy from waste
• Promoting the development of new renewable technologies
• The future of nuclear power
• Rising energy prices and fuel poverty
• Energy billing and metering – changing customer behavior
• Security of energy supply – essential to climate and energy policy