Robert Purves AM

Chair of Environment Business Australia and board member WWW International

"The world is rapidly running out of time to address the issue of climate change and the Copenhagen Climate Council is a tremendous global initiative formed to quicken the pace for genuine action on climate change across the globe.

In Australia we are seeing considerable impacts from climate change as we endure the worst drought in living memory and continue to break record summer temperatures.

We are facing a global emergency which needs strong political and business leadership if we are to avert catastrophic change to our only home, Planet Earth.

The time to act is now."

Robert is the Chairman of Australia's peak environmental business association, Environment Business Australia (EBA). He is a Board Member of WWF International (the world's largest science based conservation organisation) and is the immediate past President of WWF Australia.

Robert is the co-founder and a member of The Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and is a Patron of the Lizard Island Research Station. In addition, he is a member of the recently formed Copenhagen Climate Council which aims to provide innovative solutions on world climate issues prior to the Copenhagen protocol on climate change in 2009. Robert was for 10 years the Chairman of DCA Group Limited, the leading provider of radiology in Australia and the largest private operator in aged care. In 2004 Robert established the Purves Environmental Fund.

In 2008 Robert was appointed the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to conservation and the environment through the promotion of, and philanthropic support for, environmental sustainability, particularly the preservation of biological diversity, and to business. Robert has also accepted the award of Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney.

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