C|T Carbon Counsel

What will your company be required to do differently under a national emissions trading scheme?

What is your company's view on the best structure and implementation for such a scheme? Are you showing leadership on this front? How will you explain your emissions profile and abatement activities to your customers and shareholders? How will you explain your water and energy usage profile to your customers and shareholders?

C|T Carbon Counsel offers its clients a detailed understanding of the policy and political parameters, processes and personalities affecting the development and future directions on climate change policy and the national emissions trading scheme.

Central to Australia 's response is the development of a national emissions trading scheme. This scheme will be developed and implemented over the next three to five years and will affect your business for the next 20 years regardless of who is in government at a state, federal or international level.

Your business needs to:

• Develop an agreed internal position on emission trading
• Actively promote your position to stakeholders
• Understand and implement the system through your organisation.

Climate change poses significant questions, challenges and opportunities. How you engage in the debate and the strategies you implement to address these challenges will affect your standing with critical stakeholders and ultimately the profitability of your business.

C|T Carbon Counsel has a specialist team dedicated to emissions trading and climate change policy development who can assist with:

• The development of your company's position
• Promoting your position to stakeholders such as public servants, State and Federal MP's, shareholders, investors, customers, business units
• Maximising your opportunity to make a benefit from emissions trading

C|T Carbon Counsel can assist your firm by;

• Understanding what is being proposed in a cap and trade scheme.
• Ensuring you maximise the one-off free carbon abatement allocation
• The development of the trading parameters, rules and timetable
• The drafting and passage of the legislation
• The setting of regulations
• The implementation of the new system
• Understanding the impact to your business
• Being prepared for changes
• Communicating to internal and external stakeholders.

For more information on the C|T Carbon Counsel please contact our Joint Managing Directors, Lynton Crosby and Mark Textor on +61 (0)2 9232 0311.