INVITATION

Dear Colleague

The program for the WMAA SA Branch Conference in July has an international flavour but is deliberately designed with a focus on local solutions.

Over 35 speakers will present a range of apt topics as impacts on the waste industry become more defined in response to needs and regulation underpinning “new age” environmental sustainability.

Internationally we have Mathis Wackernagel and Lisa Heinzerling setting the scene of regulatory policy versus measuring real outcomes and impacts.

What benefits will South Australia capture and how will we move more rapidly towards a future that is currently epitomised with a doomsday ethos by some sectors?

Speakers from across Australia will build a case around current actions, future responsibilities and implications if we do nothing.

There is little doubt that we all have to wear some of the social, economic and environmental cost if we are to succeed in addressing much improved performance in a short time frame.

A Climate for Change conference will provide the impetus to understand more about the real issues and how practitioners working at the coalface of the waste industry and the regulators must be part of the new dream team to establish principles and methods to respond to the implications that will be underscored by our knowledgeable speaker panel.

I look forward to seeing you at one of South Australia’s most important environment conferences for 2008.

John Phillips OAM
Conference Chair

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

	Dr Mathis Wackernagel is co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, and is a founder and Executive Director of Global Footprint Network (GFN), a charitable research organisation. Mathis Wackernagel has worked on sustainability issues for organisations in Europe, Latin America, North America, Asia, Africa and Australia, and has lectured for community groups, governments and their agencies, NGO's and academic audiences at more than 100 universities around the world. Mathis has authored or contributed to over fifty peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles and reports, and various books on sustainability that focu on the question of embracing limits and developing metrics for sustainability.
	Lisa Heinzerling is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She has also served as an assistant attorney general in Massachusetts, specialising in environmental law. In 2003, Heinzerling won Georgetown’s faculty teaching award. She is a member scholar of the Centre for Progressive Reform, a think tank devoted to promoting the affirmative case for health, safety and environmental protection. She is the co-author of several books, and was the primary author of the briefs for Massachusetts and other petitioners in Massachusetts v. EPA, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Clean Air Act gives the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to regulate greenhouse gases.