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?
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.
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: "The second in the series and the first on the U.S. West Coast, the 2007 Global CO2 Cap-and-Trade Forum – Pacific is the only event covering policy, regulatory issues, and practical emissions reduction solutions with international emissions markets and CO2 mitigation experts at the forefront of the efforts sharing their experiences and observations, including:
Keynote Presenters:
Carol M. Browner
Principal
The Albright Group and former EPA Administrator (1993 – 2001)
Yvo de Boer
Executive Secretary
U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Steve Westly
Controller
State of California
And Featured Presenters:
John Bohn, Commissioner for the California Public Utilities Commission
Mike Burnett – Executive Director, The Climate Trust
Joshua Bushinsky, Western Policy Coordinator, Pew Center on Climate Change
Rob Fowler – Managing Director, Abatement Solutions ? Asia Pacific
Carl Guardino – CEO & President, Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Mark Kenber – Policy Director, The Climate Group
Joel Makower – Founder and Executive Editor, GreenBiz.com
Josh Margolis – Managing Director, Cantor Fitzgerald
Andrew Mingst, Carbon Markets Manager for Chevron Texaco
Joe Nation – Former Assemblyman, 6th District, State of California
Tim Richards, Senior Manager for International Trade and Investment at General Electric
Richard Sandor – Chairman & CEO, Chicago Climate Exchange
Halldor Thorgeirsson, Director of Sustainable Development Mechanisms at the UNFCCC
Diane Wittenberg – President, California Climate Action Registry
Join your peers and international experts at the premier U.S. conference on Cap-and-Trade Markets and Business Critical Issues around CO2 emissions reduction initiatives, bringing its groundbreaking content and business critical discussions to San Francisco! Attendees will benefit from the event’s keynotes, case studies, and panel discussions focused on:
Reports by the European and U.S. government, economic, scientific, and business leaders warning of the real costs – environmental, human, and economic – of continued unfettered CO2 emissions,
Passage and implementation of California’s AB32 legislation,
The work of international leaders to explore international standards and the linking of global CO2 cap-and-trade markets,
Opportunities available to the international business community in implementing CO2 emissions reduction policies for their organizations as well as portfolio and contractor companies
Over 100 chief decision makers, key strategists, and policy makers from Public and Private sector cross-industry companies gathered a the 2006 Global CO2 Cap-and-Trade Forum agreed that the eyes of the world rest squarely on the U.S. and the ongoing regional CO2 emissions reduction efforts.
Join us in California, a state leading the way in the CO2 emissions reduction efforts, for keynotes, case studies, panels, and presentations addressing the changing landscape of CO2 emission trading, regulations, and best practices for the success of your business, the well-being of your community, and the good of your world and generations to come.
For further information about participating in or attending the 2006 Global CO2 Cap-and-Trade Forum, please contact Jim Turner at 646.546.5230 or [email protected].
For more information about how your company can take advantage of this exclusive gathering of your peers and potential customers, contact Deborah Blake at [email protected] or 949-706-7074
Conference Sponsors & Exhibitors
Meet, Network & Present to the BEST industry has to offer!
For information on becoming a sponsor or exhibitor, please call Deborah Blake 949-706-7074 or email [email protected]."
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.
This conference will focus on the critical connection between environmental quality and human health and well-being. Symposia and
break-out sessions are designed to develop approaches and tools to better understand and manage the relationship between health and the environment.
This one day conference will expore market-based mechanisms for forest ecosystem services in the Pacific Northwest(PNW). Topics will include the incentives for stewardship of biodiversity, carbon, water, and opportunities in the PNW.
Cap-and-Trade programs have come full circle. As governments, investors, and businesses become increasingly sensitive to carbon emissions levels and global-warming, global cap-and-trade mandates are creating challenges for municipalities and businesses on an economy-wide scale. New compliance issues mean new corporate strategies, manufacturing methods and means for product and service delivery. At the same time unique opportunities arise for financial brokers, green technology providers, B2B/B2C service providers, energy providers, the legal community, and investors. According to a recent report by the International Emissions Trading Association and the World Bank, “CO2 trading was worth more than 10 billion dollars in 2005, 10 times the value of 2004” and, as reported in a recent American Lawyer article, the market could reach as much as 50 billion dollars. In the U.S. and beyond, it is no longer a matter of if, but when and how. Understanding the opportunities and the pitfalls could be the difference in grabbing this financially beneficial and socially conscious brass ring or missing the boat.
At this year's Green Mountain Summit you will find general sessions that appeal to both the institutional investor and financial planner. These sessions will present information on newsworthy issues that touch all of our daily lives and are of particular interest and concern to investment professionals. For example, one of the conference’s roundtables is, “Supporting Alternative Energy Development Through Investing”. On this panel alternative energy business insiders will discuss the industry that is critical to future life on this planet and share their opinions on current clean energy headlines, an outlook on the future and where the best opportunities for investors can be found.
Forestry companies are selling their timberland throughout the United States and the world, in response to increasing pressure for shareholder return, competition in the global market place and consolidation in the industry. There are huge ramifications for not only the forest products industry but also forest management, biodiversity, forest integrity and forest-dependent communities.
Exploring these issues has become a regular event at the World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon, where the “Who Will Own the Forest?” Summit series runs every other year. This year forest industry analysts, timber investment organizations, forestry leaders, land management communities and conservation groups are all expected to attend.
Wetlands 2006 is an international symposium providing a forum for presentations and discussion on the scientific, legal and management tools relevant to sustaining and restoring wetlands and watershed functions. The symposium will include presentations, posters and discussion on activities in the Great Lakes area as well as projects describing "lessons learned" from other parts of the United States and Canada.
In the city of Rock 'n Roll, the ESA will celebrate the rock stars and upstarts of ecology. Hot topics include global change, ecosystem forecasting and ecosystem services.
Commodity markets for emissions and renewables are primed to take off in the next 12 months. New trading models for venture capital and hedge fund managers are forming, and the clean technology market is set to explode. From water to greenhouse gas, 2006 and 2007 will likely prove to be the year of the environmental trading market.
FRA's Environmental Trading Congress is a practical forum facilitating a productive exchange between industry leaders from the financial, agriculture, energy and utility markets. The conference will cover five primary trading instruments:
* Water quality trading
* Emissions trading including carbon, sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxide
* (NOx), and greenhouse gases (GHG)
* Renewable energy credit (REC) trading
* Demand response trading and energy efficiency trading
* Weather derivatives trading
Some of the most influential and informed people in Europe. Hear from law makers at the EU Commission, the DTI, Heads of Energy Strategy across various affected organisations, globally recognised experts working with the world's most poweful organisations and those who have implemented working carbon strategies across multi-million Euro operations in Europe and beyond.
The Ecological Footprint Forum will include keynote speakers: Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director, European Environment Agency, Simon Upton, Chair of the OECD Roundtable on Sustainable Development, and Mick Bourke, Chair of EPA Victoria among others. The Global Footprint Network will launch its standards and offer a free Footprint 101 workshop after the morning speeches.
In addition to the public conference, there will be a training in the application of the Ecological Footprint during an intensive one-day workshop on the underlying science, methodological principles, project design, tools, and communication strategies of the Footprint.
The forum will be preceded by two days of meetings for Global Footprint Network partner organizations on strategies, campaign goals, and future development of standards and certification. These events are only open to Global Footprint Network partner organizations.
Join us and you will hear some of the best speakers, talking about some of the most interesting examples in the use of environmental markets from around the world and the Pacific Northwest. At the end of this conference you will emerge with an understanding of how environmental markets work and how you can be a part of this exciting global development.
While the focus will be on the Pacific Northwest, examples and speakers will be drawn from international and national initiatives and the conference will be highly relevant to participants from all regions interested in developing and enhancing ecosystem service markets.The first day of the conference will be a series of plenary sessions on forest carbon, biodiversity, and watershed payments.The second day will be composed of technical workshops on developing specific markets and instruments.
The Southern Forest Research Partnership (SFRP) and USFS Southern Research Station are hosting a workshop on the critical processes and properties regulating carbon cycling in southern forests. The goal of this workshop is to bring together scientists from diverse fields to assess the current state of knowledge of the important processes regulating carbon cycling and sequestration in southern forest ecosystems. Of particular interest are the analytical methods, instrumentation, and experimental approaches needed to quantify these critical processes. The output from these discussions should identify important research needs, new experimental approaches, and generate collaborative research efforts that will advance carbon-cycling science in southern forest.
An International Workshop on Ecosystem Service Payments entitled “Ecosystem Services: Developing Products and Markets” will take place in Queretaro, Mexico on May 25th and 26th, in coordination with the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve and Katoomba Group member Martha Ruiz Corzo. Over 80 Protected Area Managers and related parties from across Mexico will be in attendance. Key experts from the International Katoomba Group and Forest Trends will make presentations addressing how Biodiversity offsets, Water and Carbon payments can be leveraged by Protected Area managers in Mexico for all ecosystem types. Experts from the National Ecology Institute, the National Forestry Commission, and practitioners from PES projects in the country will provide input related to the state of Ecosystem Services in Mexico. The new Spanish version of the Ecosystem Marketplace will be presented at this event.
The U.S. Enivronmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Agriculture will host the 2nd National Water Quality Trading Conference, 23-25 May 2006, including a one-day optional background workshop on 22 May. Goals include the development of water quality trading programs at the watershed level, including increased development of agricultural water quality markets, and focus on voluntary, market-based approach to cleaner water. The conference will also discuss the USDA National
Policy on Market-Based Environmental Stewardship.
This Forum will be an ideal opportunity to get updated on issues and opportunities to invest in natural tropical forests. Plenary presentations and panel discussions will focus on global investment trends, constraints and opportunities for increased investment in natural tropical forests, methodologies, case-studies, analysis and legislation that influence investment opportunities for revenue generation, including markets for forest services and for non-timber forest products. The Forum will also include reports from selected tropical country representatives on the investment climate in the forestry sector of their country together with specific proposals for investing in enterprises based on products and services from natural tropical forest.
This national conference brings together key players in the industry and offers: field trips, Corps IRT training workshop, a primer 101 workshop, general sessions featuring leaders in industry, interactive concurrent sessions, with banker, regulators – and user perspectives, and exhibits & networking opportunities. Topics covered will include: emerging and multiple markets, ensuring perpetuity, federal regulatory/legislative updates, legal, finance & tax issues, how success is determined, setting standards, sales & marketing, science & technology, real estate (how to find & purchase or sell a site), success stories/lessons learned, and tracking progress.
This international conference focuses on developing climate change policies, programs, strategies and trends. This two day event brings together leading experts to discuss the key questions and latest developments related to climate change policy and business strategy. Over 200 policymakers, businesses, academics and NGOs from across the globe will gather at the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort in Dana Point, CA to give you a complete understanding of the climate programs being built in the world around us and help you successfully navigate your organization's course into the future.
The main theme of the 4th World Water Congress will be "local actions for global challenge." The activities of the 4th World Water Forum will, therefore, seek to harness the practical, intellectual, financial, and political means to support local action on a global scale. The forum will address the decisive factors in the accomplishment of common goals by diverse actors in diverse places, searching to enable an improved involvement and empowerment of local actors in the social construction of solutions to water issues and a more appropriate channeling of domestic and international support for local actions worldwide.
The Ecological Assets in Business workshop is a forum for multi-industry information sharing regarding eco-assets on corporate property. The workshop will cover: how to make money by supporting healthy natural resources on corporate lands, improve business performance and reduce permitting time and expense, reduce liabilities under the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and upcoming climate change regulations, and recover public image and relationships with environmental organizations.
The Environmental Credits Workshop will be used to study and discuss the challenges that arise when market-based mechanisms are used to encourage changes in practices on the land in order to achieve environmental goals. The primary focus will be on carbon sequestration and nutrient run-off reductions, though lessons will be applicable to a wide range of environmental issues.
The workshop is jointly sponsored by Texas A&M University, Environmental Defense, and The Environmental Trading Network, with funding from USEPA. Participants will include stakeholders, practitioners, policy makers, and analysts. The workshop will inform participants about trading mechanisms and the challenges that arise when credits are generated by land-use changes. Policies and approaches that might be used to respond to the specific challenges that arise in such programs will be discussed.
This conference will include presentations and discussions of up-to-date topics on EU ETS, CDM/JI and Global Markets. Point Carbon will also organise an optional 3rd day with specialised workshops held in cooperation with expert industry partners. Please see the conference programme for more detailed information on sessions, speakers and workshops.