What the new CPRS means for Procurement

4th March 2010
Crown Towers Melbourne

Conference Postponed

This conference was scheduled when it looked likely that the Governments proposed Carbon Pollution Rduction Scheme or ETS would have been passed into law before the Copenhagen Climate Change Talks. As anybody with a quarter of an eye on the news would know, there have been significant developments since then.

With the election of a new opposition leader who has an entirely different position on the whole subject of AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) and any potential solutions to the problem, if it exists, the Bill was defeated in the Senate. Amid much speculation about the Government using this defeat as the trigger for a double dissolution and an election being held with climate change as the central issue, the Government have now announced that they will reintroduce the legislation for a third time in february.

Furthermore, as this piece is written, it looks increasingly unlikely that the Cop15 talks in Copenhagen are going to produce anything more than hot air, with major disagreements evident between the developed and developing nations.

Our view at CIPSA Conferences is that there is no point in running a conference programme which really amounts to nothing but speculation about wht might or might not be passed into law. The aim of this event was to provide procurement practitioners with sound practical advice in relation to how the new legislation would impact on them and their organisations. Delivering such practical advice based on speculative legislation is obviously nonsensical.

We will continue to monitor the situation, both in regard to theCPRS and the broader sustainability agenda, with a view to potentially runnung such an event if the situation becomes clearer.

Nigel Wardropper, Event Director CIPSA Conferences  (15/12/09)