http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/julian-poulter/ Julian is responsible for The Climate Institute’s projects in the business sector, with several of the initiatives focussed on investment and finance. He is a highly experienced business professional, with his primary experience in strategy and change consulting combined with several CEO and director roles. He has had a successful consulting career with firms like KPMG, Origin Europe,  SAP and Oracle and has managed projects and operations in many diverse industries including investment finance, manufacturing, venture capital, energy, oil and gas, distribution, retail, Information Technology, tourism,  transportation,  commercial property, and media. He is currently a director of several firms, a business lecturer at Sydney University and is passionate about the ability of the free market to accelerate climate change solutions. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/european-climate-attitudes-can-teach-us-a-lot/ Is your CEO or director on “Out of Office AutoReply” this month? If so, chances are that they are far from the southern hemisphere. August is holiday season in the North and with the long standing link to Australia’s heritage, it’s a good bet that there is a European and probably London stopover on the way.  Having just returned to Australia via the climate policy desert of the USA, the European climate change landscape couldn’t be in starker contrast. Whilst American media seems destined to miss the BP oil spill as an opportunity to get their citizens to connect the dots between fossil fuel pollution of all types and drive their own leaders to climate action, Europe is a different story. In the European climate world, business meetings and conferences talk of how to deal with climate change and when, not if? They talk of the risks of extending pollution reduction targets even further, not of avoiding targets at all. Climate deniers are forced into backrooms and dare not raise their heads far for fear of ridicule. A career in UK climate denial is accompanied by US and Australian visa applications because jobs are thin on the ground there. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Julian Poulter) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/european-climate-attitudes-can-teach-us-a-lot/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/european-climate-attitudes-can-teach-us-a-lot/#item3727 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:29:02 +0000 Julian Poulter | Author bios | The Punch