Corporate Sponsors
 Business
ACT - The Chief Ministers Department ACT
The ACT Government plays an active role in supporting
sustainable economic growth and job creation. BusinessACT, the business
development arm of the ACT Government located within the Chief Minister's
Department, assists this process by facilitating and delivering strategic
programs that create a competitive advantage for business within the
ACT and Region.
BusinessACT contributes to economic growth by developing
and delivering a range of initiatives designed to improve the business
environment and stimulate private sector growth and diversification.
BusinessACT also works to boost the development of projects to ensure
that efficient infrastructure meets the changing needs of industry to
enhance the ACT's economic strength and competitiveness.
In parallel with investment attraction, BusinessACT
aims to expand trade in global markets, strengthen export performance
and create an international profile for Canberra.
SEDA - Sustainable Energy Development Authority NSW
Green Power is a National Accreditation Program that
sets stringent environmental and reporting standards for renewable energy
products offered by electricity suppliers to households and businesses
across Australia. The integrity and value of the Green Power 'tick of
approval' lies in the assurance that the renewable energy purchased
is decreasing greenhouse gas emissions while actively contributing to
the development of the Australian renewable energy industry.
Green Power is electricity guaranteed to have been produced
from clean, renewable sources such as solar, wind, water and biomass,
avoiding the release of harmful greenhouse gases from coal-derived power.
Over 85,000 customers across Australia have chosen Green
Power products, including close to 3000 businesses. As a result of the
growing demand, over 150 new approved renewable energy projects have
been installed in Australia since 1997, including the southern hemisphere's
largest solar farm at Singleton, NSW and wind farms at Crookwell and
Blayney in NSW, Codrington, Victoria and Ravenshoe, Queensland.
Co-Sponsor
 United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - Sustainable Consumption and Production
Program
UNEP assesses global and regional trends in industry
production patterns and identify policies and strategies for cleaner
production. It provides better access to information on cleaner production
technologies for developing countries and countries in transition and
builds international consensus on sustainable production pattern issues
and responses. UNEP also supports and catalyses national, sub-regional
and regional cleaner production centres and assists in developing national
and local capabilities to prepare for and respond to technological accidents.
Institutional servicing to Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on
protection of the ozone layer and the Basel Convention on international
movements movements of hazardous substances are further responsibilities
of UNEP.
The Australian Academy of Science
The Academy was founded in 1954 by Australian Fellows
of the Royal Society of London with the distinguished physicist Sir
Mark Oliphant as founding President. It was granted a Royal Charter
establishing the Academy as an independent body but with government
endorsement. The objects of the Academy are to promote science through
a range of activities.
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