A practical workshop, by Markus Benter-Lynch from Tonkin + Taylor, for those wanting to understand how they should go about planning to reduce their council’s GHG emissions.
- 22 Jul 2022
- 10:00 - 12:00
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- 240.00 (plus GST) Members
- 290.00 (plus GST) Non Members
About this event
The emissions reduction plan called on all agencies to take action to reduce their emissions – be that directly emitted from the organisation or as a result of the organisation’s services. This is a practical guide to emissions reduction planning from start to finish:
- GHG emissions inventory preparation (GHG emission baseline)
- Identification of emissions reduction opportunities
- Screening of emissions reduction opportunities
- Ranking of emissions reduction opportunities
- Marginal abatement cost curve analysis
- Emission reduction scenario development and analysis
- Net zero target setting
- Carbon offsetting
- GHG emission reduction plan development and implementation.
This event is priced per person and all attendees will need an individual registration to join the live event. Please register on the Taituarā website. Leading up to the event a Zoom link will be sent to you, to register on Zoom before attending.
Note: this event is not being recorded.
If you have any questions or would like further information, please contact events@taituara.org.nz
Presenters
Markus Benter-Lynch
Sustainability and Climate Change Specialist, Tonkin-Taylor Read ProfileMarkus Benter-Lynch
Sustainability and Climate Change Specialist, Tonkin-TaylorMarkus works with both private sector and local and central Government organisations, using his technical skills, considerable business acumen and big picture thinking to provide strategic operational, programme and project advice. His particular focus and interest is helping communities, organisations and projects to develop a good understanding of what sustainability means for them, how to identify which of the many aspects of sustainability to focus on and how to improve sustainability performance. This can range from developing sustainability strategies with senior leaders and advising governance teams on sustainability reporting, to developing and implementing action plans.
Having delivered various renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the past, Markus has a detailed understanding of how to measure and reduce GHG emissions. Markus is also an experienced project manager and project director. Collaborative and people focussed in his approach, Markus helps project teams to deliver on agreed outcomes. His experience ranges from market analyses and business case development to solution development and design management, procurement and project implementation. While an engineer by training, Markus has an extensive commercial background, which includes working through a range of commercial models, from simple fixed fee and reimbursable agreements to incentivised (risk-reward) contracts and finance, build, own, operate arrangements.
Raymond Horan
Chief Advisor, Taituarā Read ProfileRaymond Horan
Chief Advisor, Taituarā- raymond.horan@taituara.org.nz
Raymond re-joined Taituarā in June 2014 as Sector Improvement Manager, before commencing his current role as Chief Advisor at Taituarā. He has spent most of the last 20 years in local government related roles, most recently with the Department of Internal Affairs.
He describes his job as two-thirds providing assistance to the local government sector and one-third providing advice to central government on local government matters. His ambition is to help develop a Local Government Act that doesn’t require changes every 18 months. He asks that you wish him well with this task.