Rose attended the second Carbon Connections conference, 'Success through Innovation - Knowledge Transfer and the path to a low carbon economy', held at the Natural History Museum, London, on 12th March. Speakers included Prof. Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor to Defra, and Jonathon Porritt, Founder Direcrtor of Furum for the Future, who spoke on the urgent need for mitigation of climate change, and the ways we might do this in the UK.
Carbon Connections, based at the University of East Anglia, is an investment body, set up by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to seek out, encourage and invest in carbon-saving innovation either through technological advance or behavioural change.
