Latest Conferences from Policy Review TV

Resurgence festival of wellbeing #festivalofwellbeing

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 00:00:00 BST

Watch the Resurgence & Ecologist annual Festival of Wellbeing that explores ‘wellbeing’ from environmental, personal, political and economic perspectives. Speakers include Alys Fowler, Tony Juniper, Satish Kumar, Ben Okri (pictured below), Ruth Padel, Vandana Shiva, Edward Skidelsky and Rowan Williams.

The event also includes classical Indian dance and music.

Resurgence & The Ecologist Festival of Wellbeing #reswellbeing

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 BST

A day of inspiring speakers, great music, thoughtful poets and tasty food to discuss – and demonstrate – how we can move from a devotion to economic growth to the joy of wellbeing.

Speakers include: Jonathon Porritt; Fiona Reynolds; Richard Layard; Caroline Lucas; Polly Higgins; Satish Kumar and Nic Marks.

Musicians include: Barb Jungr; Craig Pruess and Sophie Stammers.

Dance from Bhavan, and poetry from Matt Harvey and Martin Powell.

The day celebrates Resurgence's 45th anniversary and also the merger of Resurgence and The Ecologist. The merger brings together Resurgence's focus on cultural, spiritual and artistic ecology; and The Ecologist's focus on social, scientific and political ecology.

Eco Innovation Forum

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This event will set out how UK business and public organisations are making the practical transition to a low-carbon and resource, energy and environmentally efficient economy.

Want to attend in person? Book here (external link)

Environment 2010

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This year’s annual conference will focus on the state of our environment - from water to waste, farming to flooding. Experts from the UK and abroad will assess how we can best mitigate or adapt to our changing climate.

SmartestEnergy Annual Conference Edinburgh 2010

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 BST

SmartestEnergy, the leading purchaser and supplier of renewable energy from the independent generation sector in the UK, held their Second Annual Conference in Edinburgh, with a special focus on the Feed-in Tariff. Conference featured keynote speech from Liam McArthur MSP (pictured) and informative sessions on Feed-in Tariffs, Smart Grids and regulatory changes.

Environment 09

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

With just days to go to the Copenhagen Summit and flooding once again making the UK headlines, the importance of managing climate change and protecting the environment to national and local strategic planning cannot be overstated.

Environment 09, is a major conference and highlighted the political and economic influence of climate change and featured leading politicians, scientists, experts and practitioners. We recorded all the speeches, panel discussions and seminars from this event which are available FREE TO VIEW here.

    * Watch or listen to keynote speakers for the latest policy positions and plans
    * Learn from other organisations’ experiences
    * Use the materials as briefing and training tools

All video files, podcasts and presentation documents are ready to download now.

Speakers include:
Lord Chris Smith, Chairman, Environment Agency
Richard Brown CBE, Chief Executive, Eurostar
John Cridland CBE, Deputy Director-General, CBI

The flood risk to London - The implications to business

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 BST

Addressing members of The Insurance Institute of London, Environment Agency Chairman, Lord Chris Smith warned that “we are now experiencing what can only be described as a new kind of rain…that falls in huge quantities all at once in the same place”, and that, as a result of climate change, we are likely to see this type of rain happening with increasing frequency.

Green Hospitals

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 BST

This live online conference provided a forum to address the challenges of meeting the ambitious targets for carbon reduction in the NHS as stated in the Saving Carbon, Improving Lives strategy document (CLICK HERE TO VIEW).

This report has set out ambitious targets by the NHS to reduce carbon emissions by 15% by 2010, five years earlier than current government deadlines. To achieve these targets, a huge effort will be required, at every level of the NHS.

Carbon Reduction

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

UK carbon emissions have to be cut 30% by 2020 and 80% by 2050. To meet these tough targets without penalising intensive users of energy the Government will bring in the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). This mandatory scheme aims to significantly reduce emissions in all organisations with annual electricity bills over £500K. The Government has put local authorities in the forefront of the drive to reduce emissions and this scheme will have far-reaching consequences for local authorities. The scheme has all party support and is scheduled for April 2010 when Local Authorities will have to set up independently audited energy-use monitoring systems An anticipated 5000 organisations will come under the scheme including local authorities.

Environmental Futures

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

This Environment Agency annual conference combined perspectives from government, business, the investment community and others to: Share the latest thinking and policies on the environment, with the focus on a low carbon economy and adaptation to built-in climate change. Debate the respective roles of government, business, the investment community, the technology sector and other groups in delivering real change. Uncover the mechanisms and measures that will provide incentives, accelerate progress and stimulate wider behavior change.

Environmental Futures 07

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

This conference was held on Monday 5th - Tuesday 6th November 2007 at the QEII Conference Centre in London. Speeches and presentations include: Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP - Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Malcolm Wicks MP - Minister of State for Energy, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Ken Livingstone - Mayor of London, Greater London Authority John Ashton - Special Representative for Climate Change, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Professor Robert Watson - Chief Scientist and Senior Advisor for Sustainable Development, Defra