The European Union – Australian Climate Business Network provides a platform for industry sectors with an interest in sustainability to harness international co-operation and build momentum and scale in the transition to a net zero economy.
knowledge sharing industry events
participants, from the business and policymaking sectors
industry sectors
The Australian business community has seen a continued growth in interest in increasing trade and investment with the European Union in the context of the free trade agreement negotiations. These negotiations provide an excellent opportunity to connect business organisations with strong sustainability interests from both sides of the continent, here in Australia as well as in the European Union.
The European Union-Australian Climate Business Network provides a perfect opportunity to expand on this growing interest by providing a channel for engagement in sustainability activities for these companies and fostering the sharing of experience and expertise in implementing the goals of the Paris Agreement, as well as support building of momentum, scale and harnessing co-operation.
The Network is financially supported by the European Commission under its Partnership Instrument “Strategic Program for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement’.
Climate KIC Australia, with its linkages to the EU through its sister organisation EIT Climate-KIC, is the delivery partner for the Network. Climate KICis a knowledge and innovation community (KIC) which works with public and private partners to catalyse system level climate action.
Marian is our National Director for the European-Australian Climate Business Network. Her career spans from executive management to program delivery, in government and higher education sectors. In this role, she advances partnerships, stakeholder engagement, and project development.
Kathy delivers large, multi-stakeholder collaborative projects. Her experience in this sector includes the built environment, embodied carbon, hard-to-abate industries, international climate policy and sustainable finance.
Kathy has over 12 years’ experience in setting up systems for the delivery of complex projects with large and diverse groups of stakeholders across industry, government and research organisations. Before moving to Australia, Kathy worked for a senior lawmaker in Germany’s parliament and international development agencies in Europe and Asia. She has a background in business administration, economics, literature and philosophy.
With a successor program to SPIPA currently being finalised by the EU and expected to be announced in in coming months, consideration is being given to the extension of the Network activities for a further phase, having regard to the focus themes of the EU-Australia country engagement strategy. Several project partners have already indicated their interest and intention to continue the collaboration with the Network and Climate KIC Australia on themes of renewable energy, circular economy and sustainable finance.
For more information or to explore opportunities in this area, please contact Marian Schoen, Director – EU-Australian Climate Business Network.
