Venue: Royal Botanic Gardens, Outside Visitors Centre (near Observatory precinct)
Presenters: Professor Ian Woodrow, Associate Professor Brad Potter
Join the University of Melbourne’s Associate Professor Brad Potter, Professor Naomi Soderstrom from the Department of Accounting and Professor Ian Woodrow from the School of Botany for a walk-and-talk in the Royal Botanic Gardens as they explain how trees and the study of carbon emissions can help modern business operate in a more environmentally sustainable way.
For Associate Professor Brad Potter and Professor Ian Woodrow the collaboration between accounting and botany means finding a way to more accurately measure carbon emissions, allowing a more thorough examination of how this information might be meaningfully reported. The relative lack of reliability of environmental disclosures has been a hurdle for their usefulness in the past. Part of Brad and Ian’s plan is to test, primarily by way of experiment, whether or not giving people more information about how environmental impact is measured, and its reliability, will change the decisions they’re likely to make.
The setting for this project is the Royal Botanic Gardens, whose trees have accumulated carbon that has been recorded for the last 25 years, which is where you are invited to join them on a walk-and-talk through the greenery. They will explain how their methods of measuring and extrapolation of data are unique, and how this particular study of carbon emissions is relevant to modern workplaces. After the walk, continue the conversation over morning tea at Jardin Tan in the Gardens.
Talk will be conducted at an inside onsite venue in the Gardens if inclement weather.
This event is part of Melbourne Knowledge Week, 2 – 8 May 2016, proudly presented by the City of Melbourne.
from
https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/6564-when-accounting-collides-with-botany
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