Accelerating Now! is an exceptional opportunity to:

Showcase: highlighting partnerships between government, business and industry sectors, alliances across regional local governments and the tangible benefits demonstrated through reporting and quantification approaches.

Innovative: Through on-line collaboration in the lead up to the event. Engage and develop topic areas, share information and problem solve approached as a prelude to the conference.

Network: Professional and political: Through a program with maximum opportunity to mix in learning exchanges and a social environment.

Inspire: Through a celebration of our collective success. Share what has worked and be reminded of our vast achievements, especially the ten years of local greenhouse action.

Map: How the sector can create the partnerships, leadership and the vision required to ‘accelerate' over the next decade.

Conference program themes will include:
Implementing sustainable development approaches such as:

• Eco-innovative cities
• The triple bottom line
• Biodiversity
• Local economic development
• ICLEI's Water Campaign

Public Sector Reporting – be informed by analysis from The Centre for Public Agency Sustainability Reporting on alliances, global standards and integrating reporting into the triple bottom line.