- Examining the approach GFG Alliance is taking globally and across its two primary Australian businesses (Whyalla and InfraBuild) to reduce its emissions, led by the transition from Blast Furnace to Electric Arc Furnace-based steelmaking techniques
- Exploring how these techniques adhere to the principles of material efficiency, which is something the market is demanding of manufacturers
- Understanding the impact of emissions reduction on overall business performance and profitability
Steve Porter
Head of Sustainability Trade and Innovation
InfraBuild – a member of GFG Alliance
- What is the most useful way to analyse the financial risks associated with investing significantly in unproven technologies?
- How do organisations move from the research and development or demonstration phase and into commercial deployment?
- When to invest? - Balancing ‘jumping the gun’ and investing too early with the urgent need to find solutions that can reduce emissions now
- How can companies achieve scale while remaining cost-competitive?
Moderator:
Blair Pritchard
Partner
Virescent Ventures
Panellists:
Andrew Cleland
General Manager, Distributed Energy & Site Solutions
Origin Zero
Andrew Cheah
Head of Group Energy
Borg Manufacturing
Paul Matuschka
"Sustainable in a Generation" Operations Lead
Mars Petcare Australia
Damien Dwyer
Director – Policy and International Relations
Low Emission Technology Australia (LET Australia)
- Quantifying increases in the cost of production and the potential to reduce energy demand
- Coping with the growing regulatory pressure to reduce emissions resulting in increased expenditure for abatement technologies
- Exploring heat energy alternatives to reduce operating costs
Karen Durand
Corporate Sustainability Manager
Incitec Pivot
- How should alternative gases and hydrogen be deployed (can they be retrofitted to existing facilities, or do they require whole new systems)?
- What are the timelines for the kind of economies of scale and wide availability that will make low emission fuels viable?
- What are the carrots and sticks that are going to make replacing natural gas attractive?
Moderator:
Linden Birch
Group Decarbonisation Manager
CSR Limited
Panellists:
Ross George
Director
Austeng
Melissa Perrow
General Manager Energy
Brickworks Building Products
Dominic Zaal
Director, Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute (ASTRI)
CSIRO
- Defining the financing needed to support the transition to a net zero
- Effectively implementing and monitoring a net zero plan
- Importance of transparent reporting and accountability mechanisms
Taku Ide
Head of Carbon
Cleanaway Waste Management
- Providing certainty and investment confidence for all stakeholders
- Coordinating across levels of government to align the regulatory and policy mechanisms needed
- Collaboration for shared infrastructure developments
- Streamlining development approval processes
Tjakko Dijk
Technical Director Resilience
Arcadis
- Focussing on energy reduction through operational efficiency improvement and alternative technologies
- Renewable energy considerations and our thermal energy toolkit
- Technologies in our roadmap (and key considerations)
- Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) with Thermal Energy Storage (TES)
- Graphite Energy (GE) eTES (Thermal Energy Storage using electrical energy) to store heat and generate operational steam
- Bioenergy
- Renewable hydrogen
- Geothermal
- Energy sharing
Paul Matuschka
"Sustainable in a Generation" Operations Lead
Mars Petcare Australia
- What is the impact of the Chubb Review and the government’s position paper on changes to the Safeguard Mechanism for Australia’s carbon market?
- What are the risks that carbon purchased on the voluntary carbon market (carbon offsets) might not be delivered? What can be done to address this?
- How should producers of carbon offsets manage the risk of natural catastrophe exposure?
- How can ACCU’s overcome legitimacy issues?
- What are the best ways of addressing future supply and pricing issues?
Moderator:
Jackie McKeon
Program Director
Business Renewables Centre Australia (BRC-A)
Panellists:
Scott Cooper
Director, Commodities Trade & Carbon
Commonwealth Bank
Taku Ide
Head of Carbon
Cleanaway Waste Management
Tjakko Dijk
Technical Director Resilience
Arcadis
John Philipsz
Chief Executive Officer
Lockton Advisory
Sam Marshall
Development Director
ResourceCo