Rupert Posner

Director, Australia

Rupert Posner has almost 15 years experience in industry, government and the environment movement developing environmental policies and working in communications. Prior to joining The Climate Group he was Communications Manager for the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment. Rupert also played a critical role in the establishment and development of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and took a leading role in promoting Australia’s sustainable energy industry to government, industry and the wider community. Previous roles include working with Greenpeace, ensuring Olympic sponsors and organisers complied with the Environmental Guidelines for the 2000 Olympic Games. It was as part of this work that Greenpeace achieved one of its most significant environmental successes – getting Coca-Cola to change its global refrigeration policy so as to phase out using greenhouse polluting HFC gases.