About the Event

Diamond Sponsors

combined with

Foundation Sponsor

in association with

Australia’s premier, industry-hosted Trade Fair & Conference for emissions intensive business and low-carbon economy product & service providers across Australasia, Carbon Expo Australasia 2012 will be held at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre 7-9 November 2012.

The event is to be hosted by leading carbon market industry associations the Carbon Market Institute and the Investor Group on Climate Change with the event's Foundation Sponsor the Victorian Government.

Carbon Expo Australasia 2012 will be a high-level market event that brings Australian business leaders and their international counterparts together – this will be a premium networking event as well as a source for the latest information concerning carbon reduction initiatives, and the provision of low-carbon economy products & services throughout Australasia.

Carbon Expo Australasia 2012 will comprise a carbon market trade fair integrated with a conference program of keynote plenary and panel presentations, and a series of technical workshops addressing cutting-edge issues in evolving carbon markets and low carbon technologies. The trade fair provides an opportunity for private sector and government businesses to showcase their activities, services and products in the emerging carbon market.

Carbon Expo Australasia 2012 will be attended by a diverse range of businesses including energy providers and other significant industries with corporate abatement strategies, carbon offset providers, carbon market consultants, carbon market brokers and legal advisers, banks, investment banks, superannuation funds, institutional investors, international financial institutions, technology providers, and suppliers of energy efficient and ‘cleantech’ products – all of whom play a role in assisting businesses to reduce, manage, mitigate and offset carbon emissions.

Participants and exhibitors at Carbon Expo Australasia 2012 will include:

	Administrators of government and/or private sector market-based emissions reduction initiatives
	Managers of carbon offset projects and carbon offset wholesalers & retailers (including forest sink offsets)
	Businesses with significant corporate or product emissions reduction strategies
	Businesses manufacturing or retailing low carbon and energy efficient technologies
	Providers of carbon accounting, auditing & verification services
	Providers of other carbon market advisory & facilitation services such as carbon pools, brokers, exchanges, carbon market legal advisers, and risk managers (insurers)
	Research and education institutions active in carbon cycle R&D, low emissions technology development, and carbon market education