[Webinar] 2025 AEBN NATIONAL CONFERENCE: ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY: New Laws, Developments & Funding from across Australia for BUSINESS in 2025

PROGRAM

10.00am

Tina Khoury – CEO,
Australian Environment Business Network (AEBN)

• Welcome to Country

10.05am

Kim Maxwell – Facilitator,
Australian Environment Business Network (AEBN)

• Introduction

FEDERAL:  ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE, CARBON MANAGEMENT AND ENERGY

Climate Change

Victoria Cross
Partner, Corporate Sustainability and Climate Change Global Reporting
ERM-Energetics

• Australia’s New Mandatory climate-related financial disclosures and the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS) – new laws commence 1 Jan 2025
• Q&A

Carbon Management

Jane Wardlaw
General Manager, National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting & Safeguard Branch
Clean Energy Regulator

Issues arising in 2025 that will impact businesses:

• Safeguard Mechanism updates including compliance deadline(s)
• Market interactions/ACCU Scheme
• Emerging markets: The Nature Repair Market, and others
• The Guarantee of Origin (GO) legislation and the responsibilities of businesses
• Q&A 

Renewable Energy for Corporates

Gilles Walgenwitz
General Manager, Energy and Carbon Markets
ERM-Energetics

Navigating the renewable energy transition: Challenges and Strategies for Corporates:

• Challenges in renewable energy transition:
  • Time-to-market risks and delays in investment decisions;
  • Limited supply of uncontracted renewable energy.
• Risk management strategies:
  • Early engagement for power purchase agreements (PPAs);
  • Developing cost-effective hedging structures.
• Market trends:
  • Increasing value of dispatchable capacity;
  • Evalution of synthetic products for hedging.
• Q&A

FEDERAL, QLD, NT, TAS:   Legal Perspective

Gabrielle Guthrie – Principal, Guthrie Legal

• A legal perspective of the changes that will impact businesses, including changes within the Commonwealth, QLD, NT, TAS; and Trends in prosecutions
• Update on ESG Regulations in Australia
• Greenwashing laws:  ASIC’s 2025 enforcement priorities that relate to greenwashing
• Q&A

VICTORIA

Lee Miezis – Chief Executive Office, EPA Victoria

• Environmental compliance changes in 2025; initiatives for businesses with operations in Victoria and EPA Victoria’s expectations of Victorian businesses
• Q&A

Stefan Fiedler – Principal, Russell Kennedy Lawyers

• A legal perspective on Environmental Law in Victoria in 2025
  • Trends in enforcement
  • The next stage of Victoria’s Waste to Energy Scheme
  • Newly amended Circular Economy (Waste Reduction and Recycling) (Waste to Energy Scheme Regulations 2023 (Vic) – what does this mean to businesses in Victoria
  • Update on the Cap Regulations: Who does it apply to and what are the requirements.

NEW SOUTH WALES

Kay Baxter – Manager Policy, NSW EPA

• Climate change action plan
• Overview of the changes expected in 2025 that relates to environmental compliance and initiatives for businesses with operations in NSW; new initiatives by NSW EPA and its expectation of businesses.
• Q&A

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Jon Gorvett – Chief Executive, EPA SA (invited)

• Environmental and climate change compliance changes in 2025
• Q&A

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Alistair Jones (invited)
Chief Executive
WA Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER)

• New environmental and climate change compliance changes in 2025
• Q&A

FUNDING AND GRANTS FROM ACROSS AUSTRALIA FOR BUSINESS IN 2025

Diana Perea (invited)
Principal Consultant  
Anthesis (formerly Ndevr Environmental)

• Environmental funding and grants from across Australia for businesses in 2025 

OPEN FORUM FOR Q&A

4.00pm – CLOSE

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