Topics to be covered include cutting absolute carbon emissions, the outlook for national carbon trading, supply chain efficiency, and water footprinting. Also to be covered is the role of clean technologies as part of carbon and resource management.
As the national debate on carbon management continues to grow, so does the range of challenges and opportunities that abound this market. Now in its second year, Carbon Markets USA will once again provide an excellent meeting point for new market entrants and key market players, as they examine and explore the latest market developments and ways to further accelerate market growth.
The 2007 inaugural Carbon Markets USA welcomed over 170 executives from across the US, UK, Europe and Latin America and featured high-level debate, discussion and analysis from a selection of leading players in government, industry and key associations involved in the region’s growing carbon market. This year’s event will continue to focus on in depth discussion and interactivity in order to get to the heart of the issues affecting the market.
The 2007 inaugural Carbon Markets USA welcomed over 170 executives from across the US, UK, Europe and Latin America and featured high-level debate, discussion and analysis from a selection of leading players in government, industry and key associations involved in the region’s growing carbon market. This year’s event will continue to focus on in depth discussion and interactivity in order to get to the heart of the issues affecting the market.
The national TMDL program continues to evolve as new policies, guidance, tools, and approaches are designed and implemented. Attendees to this one-day seminar will learn how recently issued policies and guidance from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are being interpreted and implemented across the country, discuss examples of successful approaches to TMDL development, and share innovations that have led to improvements in TMDL implementation and effectiveness tracking. The seminar will provide attendees with in-depth information and examples on selected topics, including calculating daily loads and integrating them into TMDLs, innovative implementation approaches, tracking TMDL progress, and stormwater sources and TMDLs.
The management of natural resources presents societies and economies with an enormous long-term challenge. The 9th International Sustainability Leadership Symposium will address this challenge by specifically exploring the contribution of the financial services industry to both protecting and facilitating the provision of natural resources. Opportunities and risks of new and innovative financial products will be discussed.
Market-based approaches, such as payments for biodiversity offsets and watershed services, provide effective incentives to turn private forests into even greater assets, encouraging sustainable forestry, and combating fragmentation and land use change. However, there are few positive examples of functioning markets that involve family forest owners.
Market-based approaches, such as payments for biodiversity offsets and watershed services, provide effective incentives to turn private forests into even greater assets, encouraging sustainable forestry, and combating fragmentation and land use change. However, there are few positive examples of functioning markets that involve family forest owners.
Objectives of the workshop are: to provide information on carbon storage and substitution effects of Harvested Wood Products (HWP); to present the core principles of HWP accounting and national experiences; to discuss opportunities and impacts of HWP accounting for different stakeholders.
Outcomes and conclusions of the workshop will be presented at several subsequent events (European Forestry Week, International Conference on the Role of Forests in Climate Management, and UNFCCC COP 14 in Poznan – Poland).
This event will bring together representatives from designated national authorities (DNA), national focal points (NFP), representatives from several UN agencies, governments and the private sector.
The Africa Carbon Forum is a platform that will strengthen links between CDM project developers and the region’s investment community, provide opportunities for DNA representatives to exchange views and share their experiences relating to the CDM, while facilitating knowledge sharing and transactions between project sponsors and global carbon offset credit buyers.
Date: 28 August 2008
Time: 14:30 UK time/ 9:30am EST / 15:30 CET
Location: Online, delivered through your browser
Duration: 90 minutes
By attending this event you will:
1. Get incisive analysis of global trends in carbon prices
2. Learn from 3 expert speakers about carbon price forecasts and consequences for your business
3. Have an opportunity to pose questions to an unbeatable panel on this subject
4. Access a live interactive poll – to find out what your peers are thinking
Discounts are available for group bookings. Please email Joanna Krassowska at [email protected] for more information.
Please note only one discount per webinar participant may be claimed.
The program for 2008 will again focus on risks and opportunities posed to business by climate change. Emissions trading, both regulated and voluntary, will certainly be a focus, as will other complementary measures to drive emissions reductions. A draft program and subsequent updates will be posted to this website in the coming weeks.
The meeting will focus on the opportunities and challenges to the development of environmental and ecosystem services transactions and markets in Latin America. Organized at the request of and in collaboration with the Avina Foundation and CIDES, the three-day event will assemble national and international experts to discuss evolution and trends in the ecosystem services markets and sources of financing, local participation and the role of institutions and legal governance in the development of markets for carbon, water, biodiversity, and marine resources. This workshop will build on the first two Ecosystem Services focused workshops in Latin America commissioned by the Avina Foundation in Brazil and Andean region. While the event will draw strength from local expertise and highlight initiatives from Central America, the discussions will be structured to be relevant throughout Latin America and will include participation by representatives from all over Mesoamerica and South America.
The meeting will bring together experts in tropical woodland ecology, carbon sequestration projects, policy makers and investors, to discuss current issues and share knowledge.
The primary outcome of this working meeting will be the production of a report. This report will be submitted to major international funders and organisations as a guidance document for setting up and managing sequestration projects in tropical woodlands. The report will be discussed and developed in detail during the meeting, and all delegates are invited to contribute to the report.
The Global Katoomba meeting brings together leading policy makers, major financial institutions, business leaders, the environmental community and local indigenous groups to discuss the current scope and potential of ecosystem markets – carbon, water, biodiversity – to address environmental problems.
An educational and working conference reviewing the progress made in the Northwest on Ecosystem Services Markets, and preparing attendees to advance the development of the integrated services concept as an effective tool for protecting and restoring ecosystems.
The only national conference that brings together key players in this industry, and offers quality hands-on sessions and important regulatory updates. Learn from & network with the nearly 400 attendees the conference draws, offering perspectives from bankers, regulators, and users. Participate in:
*Corps IRT (MBRT) Training Workshop
*Banking Primer Workshop
*Stream Banking Workshop
*Field trips
*Regulator, Banker & User Forums
*General sessions featuring key players in the industry
*Interactive sessions — banker, regulator and user perspectives
*Exhibits, Posters & Networking opportunities — receptions, luncheons, breakfasts & more!
Carbon Markets Americas is Latin America's leading congress and exhibition for all stakeholders in the region's carbon markets, including: project hosts and developers, carbon credit buyers, government and municipalities, regional DNA's, consultants, verifiers, lawyers, carbon brokers and media
Public and Private sphere leaders in the carbon offset industry meet to discuss opportunities in state and regional carbon trading schemes.
This two day conference will explore all the issues relating to the developing area of Biodiversity Finance. Speakers will be a balance of conservation groups; financial institutions' and early adopter best practice case studies. Day one of the conference will introduce the biodiversity finance challenge and biodiversity conservation finance and day two will focus more closely on the financial service sector and biodiversity.
This two-day conference will provide you with an in-depth analysis of the hottest issues in the US bioenergy markets. Attend to discover new ideas and fresh approaches to unresolved bioenergy industry challenges, hear from top-level specialists and industry pioneers, and to network with senior-level participants
CARBON FORUM AMERICA is set to become the leading trade show and conference program in North America serving international business, government and science communities in trading, monitoring, crediting and compliance of carbon emission.
Following the 4th successful run of the CARBON EXPO in COLOGNE as well as the Carbon Expo Asia in Beijing last fall, Koelnmesse and IETA are jointly developing CARBON FORUM AMERICA in San Francisco.
Following on from the successful European edition, Voluntary Carbon Markets New York is the only event to focus on the US voluntary carbon markets. The event will provide an in-depth overview of this exciting market, look at the attempts to standardize the market, the risks of investing in the market, the future developments of the market in terms of its relationship with a future mandatory market.
Based on the success of last year’s workshop, Green Power Conferences is pleased to present an intensive, interactive seminar focusing on the development and progress of Emissions Trading in Central & Eastern Europe (CEE). Our workshop will assess the current progress and development of JI and GIS within the EU ETS from the perspective of CEE countries and examine the future challenges moving forward into the next phase of trading. The program will provide a unique insight on what being in the scheme really implies for companies and will enable delegates to successfully access this expanding market. New areas of analysis will include an overview of developments across the Balkan area focusing specifically on Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia and the Ukraine.
Targeted at new entrants to the market seeking to further their knowledge alongside more seasoned carbon market professionals, our focus led sessions will provide an excellent insight into the state and play of the current market in the CEE. Places are limited for this high-level workshop so please book early to avoid disappointment.
* Explore the new Biodiversity Conservation Strategy.
* Celebrate Washington's extraordinary natural heritage.
* Honor creative and dedicated biodiversity stewardship.
* Share innovative and promising approaches to education, science, and stewardship.
* Show what the Conservation Strategy offers to different interest groups.
* Offer networking opportunities among people from diverse organizations.
Two-day international workshopon private and public policies affecting tropical forests with a particular emphasis on avoided deforestation as a financing mechanism. The convergence of public policies and the rise of private initiatives will serve as the basic institutional context within which sources of change will be explored.
The European Commission has presented one of the most ambitious energy packages in history with enormous challenges for the renewable energy sector. The heating sector which accounts for almost 50% of energy supplied has the greatest potential to help achieve these targets – yet, to date, the sector has received little legislative support resulting in slow growth over the last decade.
There is growing interest from property owners, architects and construction companies for the inclusion of RESHC into the building envelope. This combined with the rapid developments in technologies, and heightened public awareness on climate change provides the heating & cooling sector with a perfect opportunity to reach its potential.
The Inaugural Renewable Heating & Cooling Congress (RESHC 2007), will bring together leading experts, decision and policy makers from around the world to address key trends from policy decisions to the built environment adoption and will provide a solid base for informed decisions and developing future strategies.
The market for biogas is seeing an explosive growth worldwide in municipalities, industry and agriculture. Biogas is part of a rapidly growing renewable energy sector, growing at a rate of on average 20-30% globally, with electricity from biogas playing an integral part of the global energy market. Investments leapt to around $100bn in 2006.
Green Power’s 4th International Biogas Markets event will bring together market leaders from across the biogas value chain to address ways to increase the uptake and usage of biogas systems.
The following leading experts have already confirmed their participation:
Clay Walton, CTO, Environmental Power Corp
Kirt Montague, CEO, Prometheus
Kevin Best, CEO, RealEnergy
Alan Lovell, CEO, Infinis
Ludwig Dinkloh, Head of International Business, Schmack Biogas
Jonathan Wilkinson, President and CEO, Questair
Plus representatives from:
Goteborg Energi, ENGVA, EnviTec, Biogen UK, Dalkia Energie, IBBK, Greenfinch, PZERO Ltd, Nordic Environment Finance Corp, EEA Fund Management Ltd, BioProcess Control Sweden AB, Waste Solutions (New Zealand), ECN, Metan, Swedish Biogas International, Scandinavian GtS
On Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, Patrick Coady and Ian Johnson, former World Bank Vice President for Sustainability, will chat online about the future of conservation finance both in the United States and internationally.
International Carbon Markets experts will meet in Cape Town to address the challenges and opportunities of launching new carbon mitigation projects in Africa.
This international business networking event will bring together the worlds leading carbon consultants, brokers and financiers with African business. Africa has the potential to play a key role to in mitigating climate change and reducing greenhouse gases. Carbon Markets Africa will stimulate and bring new project developers and hosts to the forefront with the overall aim of increasing the size of the market.
Over 700 attendees have attended this series of events in the last two years.
Biofuels projects are being reviewed and implemented across the African continent with South Africa leading the development. It has been suggested that Biofuels have the potential to produce 10% of South Africa’s petrol and diesel needs by 2010. Biofuels are seen as one of the biggest economic opportunities for Africa, especially for job creation in rural areas. Exciting developments in this respect are taking place across the continent.
Co-sponsored by the EU body, the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) the second annual Biofuels Markets Africa conference will build upon the success of last year's event which attracted over 200 industry executives from 24 countries across Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas.
With speakers from all stakeholder areas of the industry, this is an essential event for all parties both within Africa and globally.