This year's British Association for Print and Communication (BAPC) conference, was certified as CarboZero.

The BAPC 2007 conference programme included a line-up of printing industry speakers, including Canon UK managing director Andy Vickers, Heidelberg UK managing director George Clarke and Kodak GCG UK director Dave Wigfield. The overall theme of the conference looked at what the future holds for the industry, in which James Bellini addressed delegates and predicted some of the issues to be faced.

BAPC chairman, Sidney Bobb, said: 'As an industry body we have a duty to act responsibly when it comes to the environment.

This year our conference is taking the lead and we've been working with co2balance.com to reduce the impact of the event and offset unavoidable emissions.' He said that co2balance.com aims to help businesses minimise their carbon emissions and offset the unavoidable residue.

Offsetting works by investing funds in sequestration, or energy efficiency projects that absorb or prevent the release of a tonnage of CO2 equivalent to a company's carbon footprint.

Bobb explained: 'With so many schemes to choose from it is important to find one that will accurately measure your CO2 emissions and then determine how to reduce and offset them through projects that are both ethical and credible.

In the case of the conference this will be by planting trees in Tinners Forest, near the Cornish village of Roche.' And he continued: 'We are delighted that, to the best of our knowledge, this will be the first CarbonZero conference for the printing industry.'

Event Details

Website: http://www.bapc.co.uk/index.cfm?content=1&menu=1

Event Date: 02/11/2007

Event Location: Marlow

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