This one-day seminar will explore the opportunities and threats for Australian business in a world where the Kyoto Protocol is in
force and international emissions trading is underway.
Topics covered include:
• Threats and opportunities
• National policy issues
• Trade partner implications
• New Zealand – your friend in the Protocol
• Securing credits from Clean Development Projects
• Issues for biosequestration
• Business responses – renewable energy, carbon farming, emissions trading
Climate of change: companies, carbon and the bottom line is an event for those who are now addressing – or will soon have to address – the bottom-line impact (including from a risk mitigation perspective) of climate change on their company. This one day event will feature presentations on the investor response to climate change as well as panel discussions on climate change and valuation from both the buy and sell sides.
California Forest Futures 2005 is a two-day conference that will examine the forces dramatically re-shaping our forest landscapes and explore the strategies and actions necessary to secure an economic and ecologically rewarding future.
Join elected officials, policy makers, forest owners, foresters, land use planners, natural resource managers, environmentalist, conservationists, scientists, media and other concerned citizens as we come together to consider the critical choices facing the future of California's vital forestlands.
Honorary Chair: Mike Chrisman, California Secretary for Resources
Invited: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Senator Dianne Feinstein
Conference topics include:
+ Examining forest loss from increased competition to high costs to booming
real estate values
+ Assessing the impacts of forest loss and development on biodiversity,
water quality, fire threats, timber production and quality of life
+ Making California's forest industry more competitive in a global market while
simultaneously protecting forests
+ Adapting "smart growth" principles to lessen the impact of rural development
+ Developing new, ecological-based revenue streams from carbon sequestration,
water flows and habitat
+ Expanding the use of working conservation easements to preserve the private
forest infrastructure
+ Implementing financial, regulatory and other incentives to promote conservation
+ Promoting new strategies to engage more Californians with our forests
The United Nations has proclaimed May 22, the International Day for Biological Diversity, to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. Biodiversity is the source of the essential goods and ecological services that constitute the source of life for all. The celebration each year of the International Day for Biological Diversity is an occasion to reflect on our responsibility to safeguard this precious heritage for future generations.
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 three-day conference is sponsored by the Global Warming International Center (GWIC) – an international body disseminating information on global warming science and policy, serving both governmental, non-governmental organizations, and industries in more than 145 countries. Major conference topics include: global warming science and policy, carbon and GHG management, carbon sequestration and emissions trading, climate events and impacts, climate impacts on human health, agricultural and forestry resources management, and clean technology development.
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.
A 5-day modular programme to help professionals to understand the business impact of climate change from underlying science to business responses. It will provide an in-depth understanding of various aspects of climate change in a concentrated period and gives those attending an opportunity to discuss the issues relevant to them.
Topics will include:
· Climate Science
· Impacts and Adaptation
· Mitigation Technologies and Policies
· Carbon Trading, Integrated Assessment and Future International Architecture
· GHG Mitigation in Agriculture and Forestry
Delivered by a range of experts of international renown and experience, who can address this multi-facetted issue from a variety of standpoints. This programme will be of interest to all who have a responsibility or obligation to understand the impact for their business. A modular structure has been adopted to enable senior executives to attend the single days of the most direct interest to their organisation.
This programme is directed by Prof Michael Grubb of Imperial College London and The Carbon Trust.
This will be a forum for informed discussion regarding the practice of benefits transfer (BT), the use of valuation databases for such, and the general relevance of valuation and BT to environmental decision making. What is hoped to be a lively and constructive exchange will be centered around presentations by an international and multidisciplinary collection of experts and practitioners.
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.
A group of environmental economists in Colombia has founded the Latin-American and Caribbean Association of Environmental and Resource Economists -ALEAR- (in Spanish: Asociacií³n Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Economistas Ambientales y de Recursos Naturales). The association’s primary goals are to encourage the construction and diffusion of knowledge relative to environmental economics and the interaction between Latin American professionals who are working in the field.
Approximately 100 heads of national forestry agencies will discuss ways to implement in practical terms what the ministers propose at the Committee on Forestry. In addition, they will discuss specific ways that forests contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, with emphasis on practical implementation on the ground.
More than 400 representatives of member countries, non-governmental organizations and international organizations are expected to attend the COFO. Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland, will speak at the opening session.
A total of 20 side events are planned during the afternoon sessions throughout the week, including topics such as forest law compliance; forests and climate change; forests and bioenergy; invasive species; and forests and conflict. Most of these events will feature presentations by representatives of other organizations and the private sector, followed by informal discussions. For example, the meeting on forest law compliance will feature new guidelines for the use of countries to address illegal logging.
One of the main agenda items tabled for the Ministerial Meeting on Forests is international cooperation on forest fires. Forest fires are a significant precipitating cause of deforestation and they emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere contributing to climate change. Until now, cooperation on forest fire management focused on fire suppression. However, there is growing recognition that forest fires are directly linked with forest management – better managed forests contribute to less forest fires. The causes of forest fires also often lie outside the forestry sector, such as the application of slash-and-burn for agriculture. The ministers at the meeting will, therefore, discuss opportunities for cooperation at local, regional and international levels to address forest fires at the root cause.
The Ministerial Meeting will also address the international commitment to sustainable forest management, and the role of the forest sector in the rehabilitation of Asian communities following the tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004.
Approximately 50 ministers have confirmed their attendance to the Ministerial Meeting. Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the FAO, and Sassou Nguesso, President of the Republic of Congo, will address the opening session.
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 development and implementation of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) that create watershed specific goals and regulations to improve water quality in impaired water bodies must address issues of agricultural runoff. Agricultural related pollutants contribute to 70 percent of impaired rivers and 49 percent of impaired lakes. This is the third conference by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers on the topic of TMDLs and the science, policy and economics associated with their creation and implementation.
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.
This international conference will bring together both policy and scientific communities within the field of water to discuss issues influencing water systems in both northern and southern countries. Themes include water resources data, stakeholder perspectives, scaling, integration and water science and policy. The conference will also discuss how global water initiatives to the integrated assessment and management of water resources in river basins.
The Second National Water Resources Policy Dialog will focus on the three issue areas of Infrastructure Management; Water Resources Supply and Demand; and Environmental Quality. The format will include keynote speakers and participatory group discussions such that each issue will be addressed rigorously and objectively, and that all sides of the issues including successes and failures are covered. Senior level speakers and panelists will be drawn from all levels of government, academia, and the private sector including NGO’s, industry, and conservation groups.
The annual conference for the CSREES Water Quality Program will provide opportunities for water quality professionals engaged in research, extension, and education to share knowledge and ideas, to identify and update emerging issues, and to network. Conference tracks include agricultural best management practices, rural environmental protection, and watershed assessment and education. This conference bridges the strong local and regional programs to the larger national body.
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.
The goal of this conference is to bring together scientists, engineers, and others who study long-term natural and deliberate sequestration of carbon. A particular focus will be methods and prospects for verification and assessment of sinks for anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2).
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 purpose of NCER is to provide a forum for physical, biological, and social scientists, engineers, resource managers, and decision-makers to share their knowledge and research results concerning ecosystem restoration throughout the United States. The public forum will exchange information and “lessons learned” on opportunities for and challenges of achieving restoration. Conference participants will have the opportunity to learn about large-scale ecosystem restoration programs (e.g., Glen Canyon, Everglades, San Francisco Bay/Delta, Chesapeake Bay, Great Lakes, Louisiana Coastal Area, Puget Sound, Upper Mississippi River, etc.) and what has contributed to success of as well as lessons learned from these programs. The role of science in establishing goals and performance expectations for achieving successful and sustainable ecosystem restoration will be explored.
The 10th Conference of the Parties (CoP) is the annual event for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. All key Kyoto Protocol policymakers will be present as well as many NGOs and other interested parties, to discuss and decide upon various policy elements of the Protocol.