Recent events
APRIL 2024
What happened at CERA week?
A conversation between Max van Someren and Keith Hutchings of the Net Zero Network about the CERAWeek conference in Houston in March 2024, which Max attended.
What were the trends, key messages and new technologies on show at CERAWeek 2024?
FEBRUARY 2024
Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries
What are vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs)? What makes them different to the lithium ion batteries in your laptop or EV, and why might this be a good thing for grid-scale energy storage?
AFB is commercializing a suite of technologies to support the deployment of VRFBs as the building block for stand-alone and grid-based electrical storage systems to support the transition to renewable energy.
NOVEMBER 2023
What can engineers do to accelerate the energy transition in WA?
The energy transition changes not only how we generate useful energy, but also how we convert and consume it. Our energy infrastructure will need to be reengineered at every level.
What does this mean for the careers of engineers in Western Australia, a state which is both a major producer and consumer of energy? How can engineers leverage their skills to accelerate the transition to a sustainable energy future?
AUGUST 2023
Achieving net zero through carbon credits – what does this mean?
What are carbon credits? How do they help achieve “net zero” or “carbon neutrality”? What are the pros and cons of offsetting? These questions and more are addressed by Pauna Truong, the Head of Partnerships from Carbon Neutral.
Carbon Neutral is the first and only Gold Standard certified carbon project developer in Australia that has been reforesting degraded areas of the northern Wheatbelt of Western Australia for the last two decades.
JUNE 2023
Climate action and the health sector: challenges and opportunities
Internationally, healthcare is responsible for 4.4% of global net emissions and if healthcare was a country, it would be the fifth largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world. In Australia, healthcare is responsible for 7% of the national carbon footprint, and in WA healthcare accounts for 8% of the state’s emissions. Health agencies have an important role to play in improving climate health by taking responsibility for our own sector and doing what we can to reduce the impact delivering healthcare has on the environment, and to ensure we are not contributing to the health harms caused by climate change. As huge consumers of energy, water and consumables, health has specific challenges in reining in its carbon emissions.
MARCH 2023
Towards Net Zero Transport with Ben Haddock from Arup
This presentation defines the broad opportunity presented by decarbonising the land transportation system through its interactions with people, place and the whole supply chain. Urban land transportation has traditionally focused on efficiency and safety – mass movement of people and goods across increasingly more integrated transport networks.
Hear from our members on why they joined the NZN
Read what others are saying about their experience of the NZN community.
Howard Thomas
Simple Insights to save Millions and the Planet
I joined to get an idea of what was happening locally and meet people active in addressing the issues
Douglas Hull (He/Him)
General Manager at Kamala Tech
To meet like-minded people and learn more about local solutions to this massive global problem
Keith Hutchings
Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Problem solver
I find it far too easy to slip into despair about the ongoing non-action on climate change by those in power. Hanging out with those who are actively creating the solutions to climate here in Western Australia is good for my mental health.
Jeremy Gillbanks (He/Him)
I joined to see what thought leaders in the space were writing about
