A SUPER-SCALE AND SPLENDID CONFERENCE ON LOW CARBON ECONOMY IN CHINA, 2011!

• 10 forums in low carbon fields
• 500+ sessions covering current topics and issues related to climate changes
• 3000+ oral presentations from world leaders covering politics, economy, environment protection, clean and sustainable energy, emission trade, CDM Finance, education, industry, agriculture, business, military and public community or related NGOs.
• Up to 1000 Exhibitions and Posters
• 200 Investors, VC, GC and financing institutions looking for promising projects
• Career Fair for low carbon fields
• 10,000+ registered participants and 10,000 volunteers
• 5 public awareness activities
• 4-5 art and music performances
• 10 culture and social events
• Optional tour to famous regions of China

	September 29, 2011 – Washington, DC Office of Baker & McKenzie LLP 815 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006 4:00-5:30 PM EST, followed by reception RSVP by September 26: Via email to [email protected] This launch event is sponsored by Baker & McKenzie LLP October 4, 2011 – San Francisco Office of Baker & McKenzie LLP Two Embarcadero Center, 11th Floor San Francisco, California 94111 4:00-5:30 PM PST, followed by reception RSVP by September 29: Via e-mail to [email protected] This launch event is sponsored by Det Norske Veritas October 11, 2011 – London Office of Markit Ropemaker Place 25 Ropemaker Street London, EC2Y 9LY, United Kingdom 5:00-6:30 PM BST, followed by reception RSVP by October 5: Via e-mail to [email protected] This launch event is sponsored by Forest Carbon Group, Face the Future, and Markit Note: The London launch event is taking place on the eve of the 11th Dialogue on Forests, Governance, and Climate Change, co-hosted by the Rights and Resources Initiative, Forest Trends, and the Forest Peoples Programme. The event will focus on the issues and outlook for REDD+ financing, engaging a broad and diverse set of stakeholders and leaders regarding REDD+. Find out more and RSVP to attend this Dialogue from the RRI website here.

The State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2011 report would not be possible without the interest and support of our readers, sponsors, donors, and the participation and insights of hundreds of project developers and market players. Thank you all for your support, and we look forward to seeing you at one of our launches!

About the Event

Australia’s premier, industry-hosted Trade Fair & Conference for emissions intensive business and low-carbon  economy product & service providers across Australasia, Carbon Expo Australasia 2010 will be held at the  Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre  11-13 October 2010.



The event is to be hosted by leading carbon market industry associations  Environment Business Australia, the  Asia-Pacific Emissions Trading Forum, the  Investor Group on Climate Change  and the  Carbon Markets & Investors Association  with the event’s Foundation Sponsor the    Victorian Government.



Carbon Expo Australasia 2010 will be a high-level market event that brings Australian business leaders and their international counterparts together – this will be a premium networking event as well as a source for the latest information concerning carbon reduction initiatives, and the provision of low-carbon economy products & services throughout Australasia.    



Carbon Expo Australasia 2010 will comprise a carbon market trade fair integrated with a conference program of keynote plenary and panel presentations, and a series of technical workshops addressing cutting-edge issues in evolving carbon markets and low carbon technologies.   The trade fair provides an opportunity for private sector and government businesses to showcase their activities, services and products in the emerging carbon market.



Carbon Expo Australasia 2010 will be attended by a diverse range of businesses including energy providers and other significant industries with corporate abatement strategies, carbon offset providers, carbon market consultants, carbon market brokers and legal advisers, banks, investment banks, superannuation funds, institutional investors, international financial institutions, technology providers, and suppliers of energy efficient and ‘cleantech’ products – all of whom play a role in assisting businesses to reduce, manage, mitigate and offset carbon emissions.



Participants and exhibitors at Carbon Expo Australasia 2010 will include:

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	September 29, 2011 – Washington, DC Office of Baker & McKenzie LLP 815 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006 4:00-5:30 PM EST, followed by reception RSVP by September 26: Via email to [email protected] This launch event is sponsored by Baker & McKenzie LLP October 4, 2011 – San Francisco Office of Baker & McKenzie LLP Two Embarcadero Center, 11th Floor San Francisco, California 94111 4:00-5:30 PM PST, followed by reception RSVP by September 29: Via e-mail to [email protected] This launch event is sponsored by Det Norske Veritas October 11, 2011 – London Office of Markit Ropemaker Place 25 Ropemaker Street London, EC2Y 9LY, United Kingdom 5:00-6:30 PM BST, followed by reception RSVP by October 5: Via e-mail to [email protected] This launch event is sponsored by Forest Carbon Group, Face the Future, and Markit Note: The London launch event is taking place on the eve of the 11th Dialogue on Forests, Governance, and Climate Change, co-hosted by the Rights and Resources Initiative, Forest Trends, and the Forest Peoples Programme. The event will focus on the issues and outlook for REDD+ financing, engaging a broad and diverse set of stakeholders and leaders regarding REDD+. Find out more and RSVP to attend this Dialogue from the RRI website here.

The State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2011 report would not be possible without the interest and support of our readers, sponsors, donors, and the participation and insights of hundreds of project developers and market players. Thank you all for your support, and we look forward to seeing you at one of our launches!

The Kyoto Protocol requires countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. To help countries achieve their emission reduction targets, the Kyoto protocol introduced two market based mechanisms: The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the Joint Implementation (JI).
 
CDM allows a country, firm, or individual to implement projects that reduce or remove emissions in developing countries and to earn certified emission reduction credits. The CDM is meant to stimulate sustainable development and emission reductions in developing countries, while giving industrialized countries some economic flexibility in how they meet their emission reduction or limitation targets.
 
JI allows a country, firm, or individual to implement an emission reduction project and earn emission reduction units that can be sold. The main difference between the CDM and JI lies in their application, as JI projects can only be hosted by developed countries.
 
The course provides a comprehensive overview of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the Joint Implementation (JI). It was developed by WBI’s Carbon Finance Assist program and the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute.
 
The course is delivered in 10 modules which take about 20 hours to complete. It uses interactive presentations, case studies, and discussion forums.  The course will enable participants to:

• Understand all aspects of the Kyoto Protocol’s project based mechanisms
• Understand the governance of these mechanisms
• Start a CDM of JI project
• Understand the CDM and JI Project Cycles and corresponding rules and procedures

	September 29, 2011 – Washington, DC Office of Baker & McKenzie LLP 815 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006 4:00-5:30 PM EST, followed by reception RSVP by September 26: Via email to [email protected] This launch event is sponsored by Baker & McKenzie LLP October 4, 2011 – San Francisco Office of Baker & McKenzie LLP Two Embarcadero Center, 11th Floor San Francisco, California 94111 4:00-5:30 PM PST, followed by reception RSVP by September 29: Via e-mail to [email protected] This launch event is sponsored by Det Norske Veritas October 11, 2011 – London Office of Markit Ropemaker Place 25 Ropemaker Street London, EC2Y 9LY, United Kingdom 5:00-6:30 PM BST, followed by reception RSVP by October 5: Via e-mail to [email protected] This launch event is sponsored by Forest Carbon Group, Face the Future, and Markit Note: The London launch event is taking place on the eve of the 11th Dialogue on Forests, Governance, and Climate Change, co-hosted by the Rights and Resources Initiative, Forest Trends, and the Forest Peoples Programme. The event will focus on the issues and outlook for REDD+ financing, engaging a broad and diverse set of stakeholders and leaders regarding REDD+. Find out more and RSVP to attend this Dialogue from the RRI website here.

The State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2011 report would not be possible without the interest and support of our readers, sponsors, donors, and the participation and insights of hundreds of project developers and market players. Thank you all for your support, and we look forward to seeing you at one of our launches!

uilding on the success of five previous editions, the 2011 Latin American & Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF) will be held 27 – 29 September 2011, at the Hotel Double Tree Cariari by Hilton, in San José, Costa Rica.

This annual Conference and Exhibition is jointly organized by the World Bank, the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), UNEP and its UNEP Risí¸ Centre, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

With over 800 local, regional and international participants last year from private, public and the financial sectors, and this unique combination of co-organizers, the LACCF is the pre-eminent regional ‘Pulse Taking’ and ‘Business to Business’ platform. It brings together leading individuals and organizations in the field to share knowledge and information, discuss new tendencies, propose solutions, and identify business opportunities in what is a rapidly changing area.

This year’s topics focus on:

• Processes of CDM projects and programs.
• Developments of national, bilateral and international emission trading schemes.
• The status and role of voluntary carbon markets.
• Climate change mitigation policies analysis, including NAMAs, sector-based approaches, and REDD.
• Discuss the current status and future of the Mechanism.
• While facilitating business opportunities between CERs buyers and sellers from the region.

This platform occurs at a crucial moment for global carbon markets:

• With the widespread lack of certainty as to the architecture of the carbon market post-2012
• The increasing fragmentation of the market.
• The abundance of emerging mechanisms and sources of climate finance.

Objectives

The core objective of the LACCF is to bring together main actors of the carbon market such as:

• Project owners, project developers and potential CDM sectoral institutions;
• National climate change focal points, national Clean Development Mechanism offices, Investment Promotion Agencies, Designated National Authorities;
• Service providers, financial institutions and intermediary companies.

LACCF promotes a discussion and exchange of experiences among carbon market stakeholders and provide participants the latest developments of mission trading schemes and the future of the CDM.

The Forum focuses on analysing the international and national climate change mitigation policies and facilitate a comprehensive debate about the negotiation of greenhouse gases (GHG) emission reductions. Finally the LACCF seeks new impulses for increasing the volume of low carbon investments in Latin American.

Specifically, the VI Latin American Carbon Forum aims at:

• Update on the different views of the challenges associated with global climate change, and the most recent developments in the international carbon market;
• Discuss with project developers and technical specialists of a wide range of sectors and technologies arising from best practices and lessons learned for the implementation of CDM projects   and Programmatic CDM in Latin America and the Caribbean region;
• Learn from the most respected experts from the public and private sector on strategies and measures aimed to reduce GHG and to   promote   the benefits of the CDM in the region;
• Discuss about the potentialities of the carbon markets under the upcoming mitigation efforts to be implemented at international and national levels;
• Hold bilateral meetings, both as attendance and by virtual means, between the national CDM offices, project owners, buyers of carbon credits, etc., during the business sessions; and
• Seize opportunities to establish contacts throughout the Forum.

Hear our speakers discuss:

Preparing for cap-and-trade in California
Update on the proposals
Offsets–overcoming buyers’ liability and investment opportunities
Holding limits and other obstacles
Price signals from early trading
Auction plans
Adam C. Raphaely, Director, Environmental Markets, Karbone

Australia & New Zealand
Update on Australia’s proposed market
Offsets and the Carbon Farming Initiative
New Zealand’s market – one year on
Outlook for linkage  

Japan / Korea
Korea’s ‘cap and no trade’ proposal
Industry’s emission reduction goals
Japan’s Bilateral Offset Credit Mechanism
Impact of the Fukushima disaster
 

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
• Have incisive analysis delivered direct to your desk
• Have an opportunity to pose questions to an unbeatable panel of experts on this subject
• Receive the recording and a copy of presentations which you can refer to at your leisure

HOW IT WORKS
All you need to participate is internet connection & landline phone (Skype or mobile phones can’t be used). We’ll email you a number – usually toll free – so you can dial in just before the webinar begins, and a link to the presentations so you can follow on screen while listening to the speakers.

RATES & REGISTRATION
Full rate   £125.00/US$200.00/€145.00 (all prices subject to VAT)
Discounts are available
We accept payment in £ Sterling, US$ or Euro.

HOW TO BOOK      
Order online by clicking the relevant Register here
or contact us by email [email protected] or
telephone +44 (0)20 7251 9151

Different time zone – or due to be in a meeting?
No need to miss out  thanks to  our post-event files package.  If you can’t take part live on the day,  choose this option to receive the complete audio recording and presentation slides after the event.
Price: £69.00/US$110.00/€80.00 (all prices subject to VAT)

Sustainable forest management has a vital and widely-established part in climate change mitigation. Quantifying the carbon stored in forest ecosystems, as well as the rates and direction of carbon fluxes emitted from and absorbed by forests, has become very important to improve understanding of their influence on the global carbon cycle. In many countries national programmes to protect and maintain forests have been initiated with the aim of reducing net carbon emissions and to stabilise or increase terrestrial carbon stocks in the long-term.

The meeting will identify common approaches to dealing with the interconnected global challenges of responding to the food crisis, forest loss and degradation, the need to drive additional investment into agriculture, and adaptation to climate change.  The meeting will bring more focused attention to the interconnection between forests, agriculture, the rights of producers and affected populations, and the growing global demand for agricultural land and products.  

By bringing together the communities of practice that deal with different but interrelated issues, the Dialogue will consider issues such as agriculture as a driver in forest loss and degradation, the role forests play in providing food for the rural poor, as well as the implications of the global effort to meet the challenge of feeding nine billion people by 2050 without destroying the natural resources on which rural and forest dwellers rely for their livelihoods and food security.  

We anticipate that the meeting will set out an agenda to influence policy dialogues in a variety of fora, including the Committee on Food Security in October, the UNFCCC COP 17 in December, the International Ecoagriculture Conference in 2012, the follow-up conference to the Hague Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change which will take place in Vietnam in 2012, and other forest, food and agriculture related initiatives.

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Workshop on Voluntary Carbon Markets (August 31st 2011)

Start:

31 Aug 2011 5:00 pm

End:

31 Aug 2011 7:00 pm

Venue:

PwC offices

Address:

Birchstrasse 160, Zí¼rich, Zí¼rich, Switzerland, 8050

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Terra Global Capital is dedicated to community involvement in REDD project implementation. This presentation will discuss the importance of community participation in REDD measurements and monitoring. It will outline the benefits and challenges, and our experiences in community-based data collection and working with our local partners.

Forest-dependent communities are identified as some of the poorest in the world. The developing REDD market can create new opportunities for rural communities, but only if communities truly understand, monitor and manage their assets. This requires building technical capacity within the local implementing organizations and communities including expertise in GPS use, remote sensing interpretation, biomass sampling and species identification. By effectively involving local partners and communities, REDD projects can be created cost-effectively and empower community members to provide long-term alternative livelihoods.

Please join Terra Global Capital on Wednesday, August 17th at 1:00pm as our lead field forester, Erica Meta Smith, directs this session on Participatory Field Data Collection for REDD: Lessons from the Field.

University of California Building

1608 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036

Refreshments will be served following the presentation.

Please RSVP to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>   by Monday August 15th to reserve a seat.

The World Bank Institute Climate Change (WBICC) Practice is offering a course on Low Carbon Development, featuring the following modules: (i) Overview for Policymakers; (ii) Power; (iii) Household; and, (iv) Transport.

The course is offered with facilitator under the new World Bank e-Institute – it introduces learners to climate change mitigation, explores the concepts surrounding low carbon development planning on an economy-wide basis, and takes a detailed look at what this means in the power and transport sectors and for household electricity use.

For those interested in modeling, the course discusses the development
of reference and low carbon scenarios until 2030 and beyond, the stakeholders that need to be involved and the data that is required to develop credible projections. A downloadable copy of the EFFECT model (Energy Forecasting Framework and Emissions Consensus Tool), developed initially for low carbon modeling work in India and used in a number of other countries since, is provided. The course also provides step-by-step instructions on how to use the EFFECT model.

For more information, and to apply for the course, please click here.

For further information and questions, please contact: Mr. Peter Schierl – [email protected]

This course has the following modules – (i) Introduction to Low Carbon Development Planning; (ii) Overview for Policymakers; (iii) Power; (iv) Household; (v) Transport – which introduce you to climate change mitigation, explore the concepts surrounding low carbon development planning on an economy-wide basis and take a detailed look at what this means in the power and transport sectors and for household electricity use.

For those interested in modeling, the course discusses the development of reference and low carbon scenarios out to 2030 and beyond, the stakeholders that need to be involved and the data that is required to develop credible projections. A downloadable copy of the EFFECT model (Energy Forecasting Framework and Emissions Consensus Tool), developed initially for low carbon modeling work in India and used in a number of other countries since, is provided. The course also provides step-by-step instructions on how to use the EFFECT model.

Course Delivery Dates

You are invited to attend an evening public debate on the potential for REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) to make international forestry more just. This is the first event in a series of UEA London Debates on Environmental Justice and International Development organised by the Global Environmental Justice Group at the University of East Anglia.

REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) has the potential to make international forestry more just. Countries in the Global North are set to pay countries in the Global South for the conservation of forests, something that they have never done before. Yet REDD+ may also perpetuate or deepen forest people?Ts historical dispossession from their forests. As timber logging in the past, carbon forestry may work to the sole advantage of powerful state and industrial interests.

This public debate will bring the idea of global environmental justice to bear upon current debates about REDD+. It will bring together a variety of stakeholders in REDD+ to assess the justice implications of emergent REDD+ initiatives. The emphasis will be on highlighting how REDD+ has the potential to make international forestry more just in certain ways, but also poses serious dangers to make it more unjust in other ways.

Moderator: John Vidal, The Guardian

Panel: Kristy Graham, Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
                        Saskia Ozinga, FERN
                        Dr Charles Palmer, London School of Economics
                        Dr Yvan Biott, DFID (tbc)

The debate will open with an introduction by Dr Thomas Sikor, University of East Anglia   (UEA).

Time/date:   6.00 ?” 8.00pm, Wednesday 20 July 2011 (refreshments will be provided)
Location:   UEA London Study Centre, Middlesex Street, London E1 7EZ ?” view map
Booking:   This event is free – please register by contacting [email protected]