Tackling climate change requires emissions reductions and this can be achieved in 2 ways;

1. Reducing emissions in your workplace and home
2. Advocating and inspiring the people you meet to reduce their emissions.

Veterinary nurses are in a unique position as emission reduction in practice is easy to start and you have a daily connection to more than half the Australian population through their animal ownership. You can inspire more than half of the country to support your efforts to provide a better future for the animals they love.

Presentation
- Why is emissions reduction so urgent? A brief update on the climate science
- Understand the different categories of emissions and which ones are important in veterinary practice.
- How to start reducing emissions, what are the barriers and how can you deal with them.
- Learn how the VfCA climate care program engages the whole team in emissions reduction. You need the whole team to join with the wider community to succeed.
- Risk management – what are the climate related risks you need to think about in your practice and how should you respond?
- What is greenwashing and how do you know if a product is doing what it claims.

Outcomes
Understand the urgency of emissions reduction, how to get started and how to inspire the public to follow.