Clean Futures Conference highlights Cleantech hotspot

01-Dec-2011
The second annual Clean Futures Conference brought together around 120 cleantech entrepreneurs, experts and advisors from across Australia and overseas in a full-day workshop and trade display.

 

Queensland Minister for Tourism, Manufacturing and Small Business Jan Jarratt officially opened the event at the University of the Sunshine Coast Innovation Centre and was followed by Sustainable Business Australia CEO Andrew Petersen.


Chair of Cleantech Industries Sunshine Coast Bruce Napier said the event underscored the important place the sector had on the future of the local economy.


"This event is a great development in the local clean tech sector," he said. "It also provides an opportunity to gain information and network together as an industry."


The conference is proudly supported by Sunshine Coast Council, Regional Development Australia, the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, and the Innovation Centre Sunshine Coast, and is presented in partnership with Cleantech Industries Sunshine Coast.


Some Cleantech Facts*:
• Australia’s cleantech industry employs 25,000 people across the country.
• Australian cleantech company average revenue grew by 31.4% in 2010.
• Revenues now see the cleantech sector in Australia at half the size of the construction industry and growing.
• The final quarter in 2010 saw the highest recorded global financial investment go to renewable energy.
* Source: Australian CleanTech Review 2011


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