LCANZ Autumn Webinars: Keynote - Planetary Accounting

Autumn Webinar Series
We are excited to be organising an Autumn webinar series. We have a great line up of speakers followed by question and answer sessions.
Keep your Wednesdays at 1pm free through March and April!

Keynote This event is for our second keynote on 9th March:
Planetary Accounting with Kate Meyer.

Kate is a sustainability scientist, an engineer, and an author with a vision for a world where people flourish within the planet’s limits. She is the Founder and CEO of the Planetary Accounting Network and the Business Director of Sustainability at Beca. During her early career, Kate led the sustainable design for many award-winning developments in NZ, Australia, and Singapore. During this time Kate noticed a large gap between the science of sustainability and business and government policies and approach. She shifted her focus to look at how to address this – the result was Planetary Accounting.

Planetary Accounting - the prescription for a healthy planet

We are currently operating beyond critical Planetary Boundaries – environmental limits that define a “safe operating space” for humanity. There is an urgent need for global mobilisation at every level of society to drive transformational change. However, as an individual, employee, business owner, or government official facing this major global ecological crisis – it can be difficult to know where to start.

Climate change and carbon accounting are starting to become household terms. But the Planetary Boundaries tell us there are other mission critical environmental crises to resolve – including biodiversity loss, deforestation, air pollution, and waste. We are at risk of developing Carbon Tunnel Vision and missing the wider risks, and the wider opportunities.

Planetary Accounting is a framework that helps to translate the Planetary Boundaries into specific, actionable, science-based targets at the at the scales at which we make decisions. Kate will talk about how it can be used to help drive lifestyle choices, business strategy, government policy, and legislation. It can also be used to make informed choices about our assets, and how we manage these.

Check out our website for details of more webinars in the series: 

https://lcanz.org.nz/events/

Opportunity to win a year’s LCANZ membership! 
We’ll be running a competition through the webinar series. Student and Individual members could win their next year’s membership, while corporate members could win a free SME membership to gift to a supplier for FY23. 
To be in with a chance to win, you’ll need to register and attend all of the sessions and answer a short quiz about what you’ve heard. Good luck!