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Catalyst’s major quarterly events bring together a community of professionals and Australian thought leaders to innovate and share opportunities for the advancement of leadership on climate change. These are high quality evening events involving both remarkable speakers and the facilitation of rich dialogue amongst participants. They are always inspiring, motivating and powerful for knowledge development and relationship building.

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Catalyst Climate Change Cafe 02

"And the Winner is Sydney"
Supporting the Success of Sustainable Sydney 2030

Thursday 26 June 2008

Catalyst in partnership with the City of Sydney

In what ways can we, the city of Sydney, with the human and material resources we have at our disposal, redefine what is possible in terms of achieving our city’s 2030 climate change goals?

In 2000, Sydney gave the world “the best games ever”. But now we have a much greater and more important challenge - how do we transform the carbon footprint of Sydney so that it is a shining climate change leader amongst the world’s cities?

The City of Sydney recently launched its Sustainable Sydney 2030 vision, incorporating a bold 70% cut in carbon emissions from 2006 levels. This target will only be possible through unprecedented models of collaboration amongst the city’s stakeholders.

In this, the second 2008 Catalyst Cafe to advance climate change leadership, we will explore:

• The idea of responsibility for the success of the vision lying with us and not just government.
• How we could cause a breakthrough in the way in which the stakeholders of our city might collaborate on the issue of climate change and the city’s carbon footprint.
  
• Practical next steps that will help to bring this breakthrough collaboration into reality.

Monica Barone, CEO City of Sydney, will introduce Sustainable Sydney 2030, its climate change goals and how it is going to unfold over coming months and years.

David Hodes, thought leader in methods of collaboration in complex multi-stakeholder initiatives, will introduce some key principles that might help generate collaboration. David will refer to the inspiring example of the Sustainable Foodlab, a global collaborative project to review our worldwide food supply-chains.

We then turn to the popular Catalyst Cafe format in which we use facilitated cafe table dialogue to harness our collective capacity to create new possibilities for Sydney, ourselves and our organisations.

See www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/2030/ for more information on Sustainable Sydney 2030.

Kindly sponsored by the Dockside Group

When:		Thursday, 26 June 2008 Arrive 6.00pm for drinks then a 6.30 start. Close at 9.30pm
Where:		Dockside (North end) - Balcony Level, Cockle Bay Wharf, city side of Darling Harbour Click here for map
Tickets:		Purchase online before 5pm Wednesday 25 June
Cost:		Catalyst Members: $37 Non-Members: $52 Not-for-profit employees: $43 Entry plus Membership: $87 City of Sydney employees: $37 Includes drinks and canapes.
NB:		No door sales!
Purchase Tickets:		Click here to purchase tickets