This event will reflect on the emergence of carbon markets in North America with a special focus on the role of technology in driving these markets. Carbon Market Insights Americas 2007 will take place in the world's financial capital, New York City. The last North American event organized by Point Carbon and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change sold out with over 600 delegates representing more than 300 companies, organizations and governments. Register early to participate in this great carbon market networking event!
Curious about how water quality trading could help your watershed?
Not sure how trading improves water quality?
Interested in how to design a credible trading program?
Attend EPA’s FREE one day training course and learn all about water quality trading!
Topics include:
Water Quality Trading
How Trading Fits into the CWA
Types of Trading Programs
Assessing Feasibility of Creating a Trading Program
Environmental Analysis
Financial Attractiveness Analysis
Designing a Credible Trading Program
Developed with support from the Argentine Secretariat of Agriculture and the Asociacií³n Argentina de Biocombustibles e Hidrí³geno, the first international Biodiesel Congress will provide an excellent platform to do business with high level executives from across the region.
Plus senior representatives from the Argentine Secretariat of Agriculture, Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Petrobras, Brasil Ecodiesel, Pure Biofuels, SoyEnergy, Inter-American Development Bank, Asociacií³n Argentina de Biocombustibles e Hidrí³geno, Frost and Sullivan, ABIOdiesel, Federacion Agraria Argentina
The workshop will be hosted by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and supported by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The Special Workshop will be an integral part of the "8th Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation", organised by the NGO Green Budget Germany. The conference will take place from Thursday, October 18, 2007 to Saturday, October 20, 2007. Naturally, we would be pleased if you can attend the workshop as well as the whole conference.
Over the past 2 years there has been tremendous well documented growth in the compliance regulatory carbon markets growing from $11bn in 2005 to $24bn+ in 2006, primarily within the EU ETS and the CDM mechanism. There is, however, another large untracked market in CO2 equivalent trading in voluntary markets for carbon offsets that has also grown tremendously ($100m+).
For sellers the markets provide an avenue for carbon projects which are uneconomical via CDM/JI. For buyers the patchwork of different markets can provide risks difficult to determine. Reliable data to the true extent of all voluntary carbon offsets is difficult to find but this event will provide attendees with answers to the following questions:
What, where and how big are the voluntary carbon markets? How do they operate? What are the risks of investing in these markets? What efforts are there to standardise the markets? How will the new standards help improve the liquidity and credibility of the markets? What barriers exist to project developers in generating offsets? What are the major challenges to future growth?
This topical conference, the eighth in a highly successful series, will provide an invaluable update on all the major developments shaping the fast-moving markets in carbon credits and allowances.
Topics that will be covered include:
• Preparing for Phase II of the EU Emissions
Trading Scheme
• Voluntary vs mandatory carbon markets
• What buyers expect; what sellers want
• Where next for carbon prices?
• Improving the Clean Development Mechanism
• What’s happening in the US and Japan
• Outlook for the Kyoto regime beyond 2012
• Carbon finance and forestry
As competition between food and fuel threatens to become a pressing constraint on the current biofuel industry, the biofuels world is starting the transition to next generation biofuels. Emerging powerful market drivers and strong political influences are moving ethanol to the next stage and there is huge interest in the next generation of biofuels from the oil majors. Could this be the beginning of a new branch of industry that could grow bigger than the existing 1st generation fuel ethanol industry? Will cellulosic ethanol take off? How will this nascent industry emerge from the current demo phase to produce commercial-scale quantities of ethanol?
Learn from over 30 senior decision makers who are driving the development of next generation biofuels including: BP Biofuels, DuPoint, Imperium Renewables, Royal Nedalco, Novozymes, NREL, Iogen, Celunol, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Emerald Technology Ventures, Firelake Capital Management, Ernst & Young, Green Biologics, Dyadic Bioscience Business, C3BioEnergy and BioMethanol Chemie Holding
This 2 day information-rich, networking conference will build upon the success of the next generation biofuels seminar held in Brussels this March, which attracted over 250 high level executives.
Join nearly 2,000 leaders from across the US who are dedicated to protecting farms, ranches, forests, trails, natural areas, parks and scenic visits at the largest gathering in the country dedicated to land conservation – Rally 2007. Advance your knowledge by attending 100+ workshops, seminars, field trips and networking opportunities
– Learn about the latest threats and opportunities with Congress and the IRS
– Prepare for the new Land Trust Accreditation Program
– Connect with your colleagues and build a community of professional friendships
– Renew your spirit and recharge for the work ahead!
A conference that brings together the major market participants and policy makers in the international carbon markets.
Strengthening Community, Business, and Conservation
* Goal I: To expand the network of ecotourism practitioners and experts in North America
* Goal II: To promote ecotourism dialogue and policy development at multiple levels of government
* Goal III: To provide concrete tools to advance sustainable ecotourism and development and practices
* Goal IV: To support Native American and First Nation peoples’ participation and leadership in the growth of North American ecotourism
* Goal V: To encourage greater awareness and implementation of ecotourism principles in North America
Join us in building a low carbon society of the future. That is the vision for Copenhagen Climate
Solutions, Scandinavia’s largest business conference, exhibition and networking event on
climate change. In preparation for the UN climate summit, to be held in Copenhagen in 2009,
this event is looking to illustrate those solutions that will be the building blocks in creating the low carbon society of the future.
The groundwork will be laid on September 25, when leading companies, research universities,
trade organisations and policy makers will meet at Copenhagen Climate Solutions 2007 to
show what new and innovative solutions can contribute to a low carbon future.
The inaugural Carbon Markets India conference is a two day business networking event, run together with the Confederation of Indian Industry, that will bring together the worlds leading carbon consultants, brokers and financiers with Indian business.
The event brings together the who's who of India's carbon markets including senior experts from Reliance Industries, Gujarat Flurochemicals, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, GTZ, Emergent Ventures, Ernst & Young, Indian Sucrose, RuMeth International, Rabobank, Triveni Engineering and Industries, Vestas Wind Systems and TUV South Asia. A Project Developer/Host Subsidised Scheme is available to encourage some of the CII's 6300 major Indian businesses to attend the event and enter the Carbon Market by hosting GHG mitigation projects.
How can your company lower its carbon footprint?
* Learn from the experiences of over 15 leading corporations
* Practical tips on implementing your own carbon reduction strategy
* Latest national climate change policy updates from state and federal regulators
* Practical advice on Green Power and Recs, Carbon
Offsetting, Energy Efficiency, Climate Adaptation
This conference will have sessions examining institutional frameworks, the use of social capital and the management of knowledge for biodiversity conservation, as well as the economic analysis of policies for managing biodiversity in a context of high uncertainty. Papers are specifically invited on the themes of:
– Different institutional frameworks for conservation (property rights, contracts, markets, trust funds, public institutions, etc.)
– Role of informal rules such as social capital, trust and reputation in biodiversity conservation
– Efficient knowledge management for the sustainable use of biodiversity
– Foundations for providing for global public goods
– Development of international institutions for biodiversity conservation
– Institutions for payments for environmental services (and especially for international payments) and applied methodologies for valuation of ecosystem services (marine and terrestrial)
The Rio +15 Initiative aims at gathering a high
level group of stakeholders that can help to provide
an action plan for climate change mitigation for the
years to come. A high level, invitation only initiative to discuss the past and future of climate change policy, the Kyoto Protocol and the international carbon market.
This unique meeting will bring together the leading US and International experts together for two days of intense, information rich presentations, debates and networking. Understand the how one of the World's largest future commodity markets will develop and impact upon your business.
The "Who Will Own the Forest?" Summit conferences organized by the World Forestry Center since 2003, have brought together leaders in the forest investment community to discuss the broad implications of shifting forest ownership. The third in this series, held in 2006, was the best attended Summit to date, and attracted a capacity crowd of over 300 forestry executives, investors and landowners.
The stunning success of the timber investment phenomenon in the U.S. is now set to emerge on a more global scale, as land ownership, REITs and foreign investment reforms in emerging countries provide growing investment potential off shore. Geographic diversification, faster growing species, and cheaper timberland markets are driving investor interest in overseas timberlands. As the Wall Street Journal reports, “the money pouring into timber reflects a global hunt for higher returns as investment cash floods the world from many sources: pension funds, central banks, hedge funds, oil-rich nations and corporations.
The Summit is designed to foster partnerships between the EPA and private sector organizations. These partnerships will increase awareness of the synergistic research areas and technologies in the water sector that exist among the EPA and industry. This event will focus on innovation in water research and development in the areas of drinking water and wastewater, homeland security, sustainability and ecosystems.
The Summit promises to benefit:
* Research and development senior management.
* Venture capital leaders.
* Senior engineers and researchers.
* Technology acquisition managers.
* Business development professionals.
* University scientists.
The objective is to provide an opportunity for hydrologists, water managers and decision makers to exchange research results, ideas and concerns on impacts, adaptation and mitigation in the water sector, facing climate change.
* How have we proceeded since 1998?
* What are major challenges today?
* Where are we going?
* Where should we go?
Meet leading E&P companies, power generators, project developers, pipelines & storage companies, investors, lenders, technology developers, and others in the carbon sequestration development and finance community who are looking to develop and finance carbon capture and sequestration projects. You will get valuable insight into:
The market environment for putting together and financing carbon sequestration projects
The type of relationships that are needed to support carbon sequestration development
The critical factors it will take to get projects successfully financed in 2007 and beyond
About the Summit:
The Summit will bring together leading E&P companies, power generators, project developers, pipelines & storage companies, investors, lenders, technology developers, and others in the carbon sequestration development and finance community to share their perspectives on how to get carbon sequestration project deals successfully put in place and financed in 2007 and beyond. You will not only hear from this remarkable group of market players about the latest developments in carbon sequestration development and finance, but the Summit will also offer an outstanding opportunity to meet and network with this group and other players in the market and to accurately gauge the current pulse of the development and finance community.
The Summit is designed to provide the latest intelligence on the current market environment for putting together and financing carbon sequestration projects. It will also provide the powerful networking platform where attendees can meet other players in the development and finance community, discuss what they are looking for when they get involved in project deals, what future opportunities exist for partners and investors, and how to successfully get deals financed.
Pre-Summit Workshop:
As a prelude to the summit, the Carbon Capture & Sequestration Project Risks: Assessment and Risk Management workshop will examine some of the key risks facing developers and financiers of carbon sequestration projects. The workshop is an excellent opportunity for professionals involved in the carbon sequestration development and investment markets to obtain a deeper understanding of these risks and their impact on deal structures and financing.
On June 28th, PG&E will launch ClimateSmart, a first-of-its-kind voluntary program that will enable its customers to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make their electricity and natural gas use entirely "climate neutral."
As part of the launch, the company will host a symposium on the emerging voluntary carbon offsets markets titled, "Voluntary Carbon Offset Programs: A License to Pollute or a Climate Change Remedy?" PG&E cordially invites you to join policymakers, leading environmentalists and industry leaders as they openly debate the benefits and challenges associated with these programs.
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Topics at the conference include the ecological economics of climate change, energy, biodiversity, ecosystems (such as estuaries) and resource systems (e.g., fisheries and forestry); valuation methodologies and issues thereof; population concerns; regional studies of sustainable development; greening the building industry; green entrepreneurship; and education in ecological economics and sustainability.
After an introductory session on offsets, this one day conference will focus on how to create incentives that will encourage developers to pursue biodiversity offsets. The meeting will cover a range of issues pertinent to biodiversity offsets in the United States and around the world and will explore issues related to marine and coastal offsets and the legal, institutional and financial aspects of implementing offsets successfully over the long term. The workshop will bring together experts on biodiversity offsets from around the globe, including innovators and practitioners from private, public, NGO, community, government and financial sectors.
This topical conference, the seventh in a highly successful series, will provide an invaluable update on all the major developments shaping the fast-moving markets in carbon credits and allowances.
By attending Carbon Finance North America 2007 you will:
Hear leading industry and government specialists explain what is driving the price of carbon credits and allowances
Find out how the US can benefit from what's happening in Europe
Discover how other companies are participating in the market
Understand how carbon emissions are fast emerging as an exciting new asset class
Take advantage of many opportunities to network with other delegates and speakers throughout the conference especially at the drinks reception after day one
Learn about the latest proposals for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Benefit from California's experience, and learn from its pioneering efforts on climate change issues
Be able to take the opportunity to attend the one-day Carbon Markets Workshop after the conference at a lower rate.
We recommend you book early as the last time we ran this conference it sold out!
Speakers from:
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Hunton & Williams
California Environmental Protection Agency
Morgan Stanley
CantorCO2e
Carbon Credits
RNK Capital
Innovest
Sindicatum Carbon Capital
Ceres
Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development & Climate
Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science, a US Department of State
European Climate Exchange
MGM International
Department of Environmental Protection, State of Connecticut
Ecosystem Marketplace
American Electric Power
The Climate Trust
Blue Source
Fortis
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
June 19, 12:30-1:30 PM
Mapping the Value of Nature
Taylor Ricketts, Ph.D.
Director of Conservation Science, World Wildlife Fund and Co-founder, Natural Capital Project
July 17, 12-1 PM
How Trees Affect Human Health and Quality of LIfe
Frances E. Kuo, Ph.D.
Director, Landscape & Human Health Laboratory, University of Illinois
August 14, 12-1 PM
In Pursuit of Carbon Credit Trading: How do we count forest carbon?
Sandra Brown, Ph.D.
Senior Program Officer, Ecosystem Services Unit, Winrock International
September 18, 12-1 PM
Bundling Ecosystem Services: Lessons from an industrial forest landowner
Dan Spethmann, Ph.D.
Temple-Inland, Inc.
2007 promises to be a year of accelerated market development for both emissions and renewable energy trading building on the success of the EU ETS and other trading initiatives. In New York City, Global Change Associates has partnered with Reuters to launch our next phase in market development through our Wall Street Green Trading Summit VI. Hedge Connection is our conference producer. This annual event will be held at Reuters corporate headquarters in Times Square and will break new ground in the development of environmental financial markets.
Speakers from investment banking, hedge funds, venture capital, insurance, and the brokerage community will present on the trading opportunities in alternative energy, project finance, carbon market developments, REC trading and demand response programs.
Conference highlights include:
* Green Trading Market Trends 2007
* The Federal & State Overview of Market Design
* Green Project Finance & REC Trading in the U.S
* Recent Market Developments in NOx and SOx
* Biofuels Trading Markets
* Carbon Markets in the U.S. and Europe
* New Green Business Models in Action
* Tying Emissions Reductions to Green Investments
* GHG and REC Market Outlook
* The Breakthroughs on Demand Response Markets
* The Latest on Green Hedge Funds & Cleantech VCs
* New Areas for Green Investment Opportunities
CONTACTS: Amanda Goldberg, 212-626-4748; [email protected]
or Kristen Skopeck, 315-477-6524; [email protected]
UNDER SECRETARY TO PRESENT PLAN FOR MARKET-BASED CONSERVATION
WASHINGTON, April 6, 2007 – USDA Undersecretary for Natural Resources and the Environment, Mark Rey will discuss Market-Based Conservation as outlined in US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Mike Johanns’ 2007 Farm Bill proposal. Rey will be joined by national business leaders with a stake in the environmental future of America.
WHO: USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment Mark Rey
WHAT: A presentation and discussion of the Bush Administration’s plan for Market-Based Conservation as outlined in the Conservation Title of Secretary Johanns 2007 Farm Bill proposal.
WHEN: 1:00 p.m. Thursday, April 12, 2007
WHERE: Baker & McKenzie LLP
1114 Avenue of the Americas
Fourth Floor Conference Room
New York, New York 10036
Telephone: 212-626-4100
PARTICULARS: Attendees must RSVP with Amanda Goldberg at 212-626-4748, so they can be cleared through security. Please RSVP no later than Tuesday, April 10.
Light refreshments will be provided.
For members of the media who can not attend in person, there are a specific number of phone access lines available. Please contact Kristen Skopeck at 315-477-6524 to be given the phone access information.
The National Mitigation and Conservation Banking Conference brings together key players in the mitigation banking industry, and offers quality hands-on sessions and important regulatory updates will focus on the next decade of banking as it learns from the past and looks to the future.
The overarching theme and goal of this conference is to link human dimensions aspects of land-use change along urban/rural interfaces with ecological aspects of land-use change along urban/rural interfaces. The organizers believe that such linkages offer the promise of new, powerful insights for understanding the forces that shape, and are shaped by, urbanization and offer more encompassing and compelling understanding of the causes and environmental consequences of urbanization-related land-use change policies. The conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to share current research results and implementation strategies, and to identify knowledge gaps, challenges, and opportunities regarding the interaction between urbanization and natural resources. In particular, approaches that focus on integrating socioeconomic and ecological research will be highlighted.
Organizer's Description:
"nce again international Carbon Markets experts will meet in Rio de Janeiro to address the challenges and opportunities of launching new carbon mitigation projects across the region. In 2006 this event was a huge success attracting 220 participants from 23 countries.
A market place for carbon sellers and buyers where projects are offered for sale
35+ carbon experts including 10+ industry project host speakers
Learn how to develop successful CDM projects
Meet some of the worlds largest carbon credit buyers, carbon bankers and project financiers
Learn & share real practical experiences
Join the Carbon Markets success story and sell carbon credits now
Simultaneous translation in English, Portuguese and Spanish
Plus:
Project Developer Coaching Seminar, 2nd April
An intensive one-day seminar that will provide project developers with the expertise and knowledge to successfully enter the carbon market. Combining expert presentations with practical case study analysis our seminar will serve as an excellent introduction to anyone wanting to further their knowledge or embark on a CDM project."
