At Carbon Expo, “carbon market participants can interact for the first time in a real trade fair environment and not on the margins of conferences or UN meetings”. Expo offerings will cover, among others, the EU ETS, Canadian and Japanese trading schemes. Carbon project developers and investors, and offset buyers and sellers will have a forum to meet, learn about market offerings and strike deals. There will be opportunities to interact with all actors engaged in the carbon market: Industry, service providers, aid agencies, financial institutions, governments.
The Land Development Conference & Expo, held for the first time this past May in Baltimore, is being expanded into two major events in 2005. Land Development East will be held May 4-6 at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore. Land Development West is being held at the SunBurst Resort in Phoenix. Both events will feature 40 sessions covering such topics as project management and collaboration, sustainable development, new technology, land development trends, and land use planning. In addition, plans are under way to include more sessions on residential, commercial, institutional, and government project case studies. Although both conferences will deal with national issues, each will have special sessions relative to the eastern and western parts of the country, respectively.
This two-day conference will focus on key concerns of professionals at industrial, manufacturing, commercial business, government, utility, and other facilities with environmental issues. The conference theme, Managing the Environment in the 21st Century, will be emphasized throughout the program, which will feature 30-plus sessions on environmental management, operations, and technology topics. This emphasis is reflected in the conference’s four educational tracks: Business and Risk Management, Project and Site Management, Regulatory and Compliance Management, and Technical and Operations Management.
On 16 February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol to address climate change enters into force. It obliges the EU to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 8% until 2012 as compared to 1990. For the future even more dramatic reductions will be needed. EU and member states leaders such as Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac or Gerhard Schrí¶der have repeatedly spoken of EU long-term reduction commitments of up to 50% or even 60% by 2050.
Reductions in the industrialised countries only will however not suffice. In 2030 at the latest, developing countries will have overtaken industrialised countries in absolute terms of emissions. Full engagement of all developing and industrialised countries alike will be needed.
As current EU polices including the EU CO2 emissions trading scheme will not suffice, the EU heads of government have put "medium and longer term emission reduction strategies" on their agenda of this year's Spring European Council in March. The outcome of the Spring Council is considered to guide EU climate change policy for the time to come. At the same time, the EU is also considering reviewing the emissions trading scheme. Principal expected changes are extension to the transport sector, notably air transport, linking to non-EU schemes as well as expansion to non-CO2 gases. In parallel, international negotiations within the UN on the scope and nature of future commitments for the period when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 have already begun.
The third Annual Brussels Climate Change Conference will bring together the European Commissioner for the environment, the Chairman of European Parliament Environment Committee and the climate change co-ordinator of the the forthcoming UK EU presidency, CEOs and other senior business executives and non-governmental organisations to mull over strategies and opportunities and threats different options provide.
This years' theme will be "EU climate change policy beyond Kyoto: Building a global climate change agreement" and cover i) EU climate change policy after the Spring Council, ii) transport and air transport in particular, iii) developing the EU ETS further and finally, iv) mitigation and technology solutions. The European Commissioner for the environment, Stavros Dimas will provide a first hand assessment on the results of the Spring Council.
The annual conference for the California Climate Action Registry where all Registry participants and interested parties are invited to learn more about the Registry and various related developments from around the world.
The 8th National Mitigation and Conservation Banking Conference offers interactions with bankers and regulators, hands-on how-to sessions, and presentations on emerging markets, technical information and legislation. Themes include business areas such as financing, risk mitigation, sales and marketing and real estate transactions. With an emphasis on case studies and shared experiences of both success and failures of policies and projects, this conference will bring together the prime movers in the most active water related market sector.
The objective of this conference is to address issues and present new approaches that focus on the demand side of water and economic incentives, rather than the traditional focus on the supply side. The main activity of this Conference will be to review on-going experiences in different countries where demand-side instruments and water management institutions exist. Conference themes will include: water markets experiences in developed and developing countries, economic evaluation of water transfer between countries, economic impacts of water transfer from agricultural to urban uses, water rights and management of ground water and sea water intrusion, environmental and economic consequences of oil-production wastewater to aquifers, and sea water desalination.
The one-day Carbon Trading and Energy conference is being hosted by the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) an international association of individual members from over 70 countries.
The Carbon Market Insights 2004 event was an outstanding success after selling out with almost 500 participants and attracting all the main industry players. Point Carbon is planning an even larger event for 2005, with specialist workshops, more participants, more exhibitors and a new, larger venue. The following topics will be addressed: EU ETS (Policy developments, Future of the market, Price scenarios and forecasts, Trading fundamental analysis and Carbon risk portfolio management); CDM/ JI (Current state of the market, Certification and validation issues, Host country attractiveness, Approval structures in investor countries and Price analysis) and Kyoto markets (2nd commitment period, Price scenarios, Linking between regional and national schemes, Different national responses, Australia & New Zealand, Canada, Japan, US and Russia).
Stanford Law School has awarded Michael Bean, a nationally recognized leader in wildlife conservation, its Robert Minge Brown Lectureship, for his innovative approaches to promoting wildlife conservation using incentives.
Bean's lecture, titled "Turning Adversaries into Allies: New Ideas for Conserving Our Most Imperiled Wildlife," will be delivered Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 5:00 p.m., in Room 190, Crown Quadrangle, Stanford Law School.
Bean currently serves as chair of the Wildlife Program at Environmental Defense, where he has directed wildlife activities since 1977. He is a foremost authority on the Endangered Species Act and its implementation. His book, The Evolution of Wildlife Law, is the leading text on wildlife conservation law in the United States. He has also written numerous articles on wildlife protection.
Much of Bean's current endangered species conservation work focuses on the challenge of conserving rare species on privately owned land, and his lecture at Stanford Law School will specifically address innovation in species conservation on private land.
"Michael Bean's path-breaking work on conservation easements with private landowners, his entrepreneurial development of incentive-based wildlife conservation policies, and tireless efforts to make the Endangered Species Act more effective make him an ideal recipient of the Robert Minge Brown Lectureship," said Larry D. Kramer, Richard E. Lang Professor and Dean of Stanford Law School.
Annual technical meeting where about 1000 business leaders, corporate executives, engineers and specialists (mostly from the utility industry) network, present papers and discuss current policies and technological advances. There will be about 200 Presentations, 70 Exhibits, and 13 Workshops, as well as many free pre-conference workshops. Climate Change topics include: voluntary programs, corporate strategies for managing risk & CO2, forestry carbon sequestration, GHG policy, inventories & registries, and carbon trading.
This conference will bring the leaders of the corporate, financial, and legal sectors together with some of the world’s foremost experts on climate change policy to discuss the legal and practical implications of climate change for U.S. businesses, and some pragmatic steps that companies can take to develop strategies for dealing with climate change. The conference will begin with a briefing on climate change concerning the latest scientific knowledge; we will then enter into a detailed discussion of the opportunities and risks that climate change poses for corporate America.
The Eradicating Poverty Through Profit conference will explore private sector solutions to poverty with keynote addresses and other presentations, panel discussions, live "laboratories", sector or interest-specific workshops, and exhibits. Four broad themes will guide the discussions: Pro-Poor Business Activities: Why Bother?, Experience to Date: What Works?, Barriers and Challenges: How to Succeed, and Finding New Solutions: Tomorrow's Best Practices.
The World Conservation Congress is the general assembly of IUCN members, which takes place every three to four years. The Congress combines the business of the Union with technical conservation fora and provides an opportunity for the sharing of information and experience among IUCN’s worldwide constituency of members, Commission members, stakeholders and partner organizations. The Congress encompasses three principal elements: conducting the business of the Union, assessing the work of IUCN Commissions and taking stock of conservation.
The Agriculture and Water Quality in the Pacific Northwest conference includes viewpoints from farm owners, government agencies and environmental organizations to improve communication, build understanding, and foster cooperation. The conference includes town hall discussions and presentations on monitoring, pollution control and water management. Break out sessions include focuses on groundwater protection, Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and pollution control technologies. people in agriculture, environmental organizations and government, focuses on preservation of agriculture and protection of surface and ground water quality in the Pacific Northwest and is designed to foster cooperation between people in agriculture, environmental organizations and government.
