Philip Sutton

Philip Sutton is the Director of Policy and Strategy of Green Innovations, a non-profit environmental policy think tank and consultancy organisation promoting the achievement of global and local ecological sustainability. Philip's work is focused on environmental management systems for sustainability-seeking organisations and on strategies for ecologically sustainable economy.

Philip was the architect of the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee legislation passed in 1988. This Act has provided an influential model for wildlife legislation nationally. Philip instigated the community campaign that lead in 1983 to the outlawing of the use of nuclear power in the Australian State of Victoria.

Philip worked for a year in 1991 in the Victorian Office of the Environment on strategies for a successful green economy.

Philip was a member of:

the Steering Committee for the Victorian Government Timber Industry Strategy (1986)
the Federal Government's Endangered Species Advisory Committee (1990-93)
the Manufacturing Working Group of the Prime Minister's Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) process (1991)
the Victorian Premier's Fibre Processing and Sustainable Development Jobs Council (1992)
the Victorian Government Wood Products Working Party - a joint industry/conservation movement working group (1992-93).

Philip was selected in 1991 by the Age Newspaper/Melbourne University Politics Department `Agenda Project' as being one of the most influential environmental policy shapers in the State of Victoria.

He has written on sustainability-orientated economic development strategies, economic growth, ecotaxation, industry policy for the timber and plastics industries and energy and urban policy. His views on the economy and sustainability are generating considerable interest within both industry and the community.