Scottish Energy and Environment Conference (SEEC)

Michelle Frew

Head of Green Deal Delivery

Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC)

This presentation will cover the Government's new Green Deal, due to go live later in 2012.  Under the Green Deal, energy efficiency measures can be installed in any type of property - business or domestic, owner occupied or tenanted - at no up-front cost, with costs being repaid out of the expected energy bill savings.  The talk will cover the basic framework of Green Deal - including the financing arrangements, the measures included and standards of advice and installation.

Professor Guillaume Thierry

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

Bangor University

The human brain is an interpreter of the surrounding world.  Everyone's perception of the world is different from everyone else's.  We all perceive 'reality' out there slightly differently, we get tricked everyday by illusions, and when our attention is captured, we became blind to change.  These simple biological facts combined with our incredible ability to adapt to changing conditions and our insensitivity to slow change makes us particularly vulnerable to a phenomenon like climate change.  This lead us to a radical conclusion: Is it too late, far too late.  Therefore the question becomes: What can we do to prepare ourselves?  Starting from the brain as a biological organ with its amazing power and its limits, I will give my view of the extraordinary challenge faced by modern psychologists today; how to change people's behaviour before nature imposes on us radical and brutal adaptation.

Ed Gillespie

Co-Founder

Futerra Sustainability Communications

Building on Futerra's decade of creative communications experience in the field of sustainability, Ed will explore some of the tried and tested key principles, challenges and effective tactics used to engage the public on our energy challenges.  Expect lovely, provocative low carbon thinking...delivered in high-octane style.

Tony Walker

Deputy Managing Director

Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd

Toyota Manufacturing UK aims to be the most sustainable manufacturing plant in the UK and Europe producing the first full hybrid vehicle of any vehicle manufacturer anywhere in Europe.

Toyota's Burnaston plant has been systematically reducing it's environmental impact since it started production in 1992 with an integrated strategy for sustainable manufacturing including increasing usage of renewable sources of energy and making the plant in harmony with it's natural surroundings.

Cllr Graham Reed

Councillor

Stirling Council

This presentation will cover the status and economic understanding of Stirling City, including recent innovations to address core conditions such as environmental gains, community involvement and council action.  Graham will also discuss future strategies and actions.