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Who should lead the workplace on climate change?

Two leading sustainability advocates have very different views on which part of the business should lead the corporate response to climate change.

HR is best placed to deliver the necessary change throughout a company, according to sustainability professor Dexter Dunphy. But Bovis Land Lease sustainability expert Anita Mitchell has warned doing so could deliver the equivalent of the IT section's dreaded "blue screen of death".

A Climate at Work conference in Sydney also saw the launch of a 'tell all' website by the ABC on its sustainability efforts and produced a warning from energy efficiency expert Hugh Saddler that skills shortages could be the biggest impediment preventing a transformation to clean energy.

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