Methane to Markets Partnership – Advancing Global Opportunities for Methane Recovery and Use Projects
Wednesday, 10:45 - 11:45
Room 123

Join a panel of experts for an informative discussion of the Methane to Markets Partnership (M2M) and opportunities for methane recovery and use projects in North America. M2M is an international initiative to reduce global methane emissions in over 20 countries including the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Speakers will share information on initiatives and activities to advance projects in North America, practical and technical information to assist project developers, and project case studies.

The presentation by the. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) will highlight voluntary programs that were established over ten years ago to promote methane emissions reductions in the agricultural, coal, landfill and oil and gas industries in the U.S. and abroad.

Ocean Iron Fertilization:  Past results, recent developments and next steps.
Wednesday, 12:00-13:00
Room 123

Ocean fertilization uses iron to trigger phytoplankton blooms at sea, which have the potential to sequester large amounts of carbon dioxide in the deep ocean as they mature and sink. This session will explain the fundamental science of the process, its key role in past climate cycles and how environmental concerns can be addressed. The primary elements of a formal GHG project methodology will also be presented, Finally, the next several years’ objectives and challenges will be outlined.

Speakers:

• Dan Whaley, CEO;
• Dr. Margaret Leinen, Chief Science Officer;
• Dr. Francisco Chavez, MBARI;
• Dr. Kenneth Coale, Moss Landing Marine Labs

Voluntary Market: Standards + Transparency = Credibility
Tuesday, 11:15-12:15
Room 124

The lack of regulation in the voluntary market has led to criticisms ranging from ‘snake oil’ over ‘hot air’ to ‘modern indulgences.’ Addressing these issues and designing socially accepted systems will ultimately determine the success of the carbon offsetting industry. Quality standards are thus a critical element to address the concerns for sustainable benefits, and representatives from leading standardization institutes such as the Gold Standard, VCS, and TÜV SÜD will present their views on quality leadership in the voluntary market.

Speakers:

• Sascha Lafeld, Managing Director and Founder, 3C Group
  
• Edwin Aalders, Acting CEO, VCS and Director, IETA
  
• Jasmine Hyman, Marketing Director, Gold Standard
  
• Werner Betzenbichler, Head of Carbon Management Services, TÜV SÜD

The Voluntary Carbon Standard
Wednesday, 10:45-11:45
Room 124

In November 2007 the Climate Group, IETA and the WBCSD launched the VCS standard and founded the VCS Association. During the side event a presentation will be given providing the outline of the VCS Programme and its specific requirements and experts will discuss the impact of the standard and why according market research by ecosystem market place and new carbon finance the VCS is now the most popular standard in the Voluntary
Market.

Moderator: Ricardo Bayon, Managing Director, Ecosystem Marketplace

Speakers:

• Edwin Aalders, Acting CEO, VCSA;
• Marc Stuart, Co-Founder, Director of New Business, Ecosecurities;
• Kenneth Newcombe, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

The Kyoto Protocol offset mechanisms - Stimulating investment and reducing emissions
Tuesday, 13:15-14:15
Room 124

The Kyoto Protocol created two mechanisms designed to stimulate investment in projects that reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Now with close to a thousand projects operating in about 50 countries, and about two thousand more projects already in the pipeline, these innovative market-based mechanisms are well and truly up and running. Key staff members from the UNFCCC secretariat, which backstops the regulatory bodies of the clean development mechanism (CDM) and joint implementation (JI), will reflect on the challenges and opportunities faced in setting up and supporting the running of the world's largest cap-and-trade offset mechanisms. They will also leave plenty of time to respond to any and all questions.

Moderator: David Abbass, Public Information Officer, CDM, UNFCCC secretariat

Speakers:

• Kai-Uwe SCHMIDT, UNFCCC secretariat - Manager, Clean Development Mechanism, Secretary to the CDM Executive Board
• James GRABERT, UNFCCC secretariat - Manager, Joint Implementation, Secretary to the JI Supervisory Committee

Transatlantic Perspectives on Emissions Trading
Tuesday, 14:30-15:30
Room 124

Peter Zaman and Bill Thomas, attorneys specialising in emissions trading, will partake in a 'chat-show' style discussion drawing on their experiences of the emissions markets on either side of the Atlantic. The format will involve a question and answer session with interaction from the audience. The topics covered will include the potential for linking US and EU schemes, views on the prospects of a federal US scheme, the dynamics of the US role in international climate change negotiations and the developments in the voluntary emissions market.

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation – The New Market Opportunity
Wednesday, 12:00-13:00
Room 124

Reducing emissions from deforestation (RED) is emerging as one of the most exciting new project types for cost-effectively generating large-scale emissions reductions.
This side event brings together leading project developers, technical experts and investors to discuss recent developments that are creating compelling new market opportunities in this rapidly evolving field.
Topics covered include: Bali outcomes, emerging US climate policies, voluntary market developments, addressing permanence and leakage, and the role of standards. Brief presentations will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.

Speakers:

• Ken Newcombe – Managing Director, US Carbon Emissions Desk, Goldman Sachs
• Toby Janson-Smith - Senior Director, Ecosystem Service Investments, Conservation International
  
• John-O Niles - Chief Science & Policy Officer, Carbon Conservation
  
• Joanna Durbin - Director, Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance
  
• Marc Stuart - Co-Founder and Director New Business Development, EcoSecurities (invited)

The Road from Bali to Copenhagen: The Shape of US Reengagement in International Climate Change
Wednesday, 14:00-15:00
Room123

The most important factor of Bali’s success in the UNFCCC was the US’s commitment to work with 180+ nations on the framework for action post-2012 Kyoto Convention. The session lays out the UN framework from now to Copenhagen December 2009, examining the US political and economic drivers and issues affecting how the US engages in the post-2012 framework, and what that framework might look like.

Mike Bess, Managing Director and James Graham, Commercial Director of Camco, are joined by a panel of experts in discussing this topic.

Role of Exchanges in the Carbon Market
Wednesday, 10:45-11:45
Room 125

As the carbon market matures, participants require tools to assist in taking positions and hedging risk. Exchanges are an important option. But, what role do exchanges play in the carbon market? What is traded on an exchange and how do you transact? What benefits does an exchange clearinghouse bring? And, what are some carbon market strategies, ie. financial hedging, cross-commodity hedging.

NYMEX and several established carbon market players have created the Green Exchange, which will list voluntary carbon credits, RGGI allowances, EU carbon allowances, and CERs. A panel of carbon market veterans helping to form the Green Exchange will hold an open information sharing forum for project developers, financial intermediaries, and carbon traders.

Moderator: Randy Warsager, Vice President, NYMEX Holdings Inc.

Speakers:

• Paul Ezekiel, Global Head of Carbon Trading, Credit Suisse
• Kedin Kilgore, JPMorgan Chase
• Lenny Hochschild, Managing Director, Evolution Markets Inc.
• Tom Holleran, Vice President, NYMEX Holdings Inc.
  

Offsets Under US Climate Change Policies
Tuesday, 14:30-15:30
Room 123

The Coalition for Emission Reduction Projects - a coalition of leaders in the energy, financial, and offset provider sectors - will present on their efforts to advocate for workable provisions for domestic and international offsets in US climate change policies.

Speakers:

• Kyle Danish, Van Ness Feldman
• Bruce Braine, American Electric Power
  
• Marc Stuart, EcoSecurities
  
• Blake Schaefer, Stark Investments
  
• Brett Orlando, Deutsche Bank

The Offset Quality Initiative: Informing Emerging Greenhouse Gas Reduction Policy in the U.S. 
Tuesday, 11:15-12:15
Room 123

Description: The recently announced Offset Quality Initiative is a collaborative and consensus-based voluntary effort that brings together the collective experience, resources, and expertise of its member organizations: The Climate Trust, California Climate Action Registry, Environmental Resources Trust, Greenhouse Gas Experts Network, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and The Climate Group. The OQI will promote a policy agenda focused on the effective incorporation of high quality greenhouse gas offsets and other reduction mechanisms into emerging climate change policy. This session will focus on the purpose, goals and objectives of the Offset Quality Initiative.

Speakers:

• Mike Burnett, Executive Director of The Climate Trust
  
• Janet Peace, Senior Economist and Program Manager for Economics of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
  
• Michael Gillenwater, Executive Director, Greenhouse Gas Experts Network
  
• Josh Harris, Carbon Finance Program Manager of The Climate Group
  
• Gary Gero, President of the California Climate Action Registry (invited)
  
• Wiley Barbour, Executive Director of Environmental Resources Trust (invited)

Voluntary market - can the Voluntary Carbon Standard and ISO14064 provide assurance to market players?
Tuesday, 13:15-14:15
Room 123

This event will explore how the content and design of these two standards support the integrity of the voluntary market including helping organisations and project developers to assure their emission inventories and reductions.

Demystifying Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Tuesday, 13:15-14:15
Room 125

Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) means different things to different people. A panel of experts will cover the more controversial topics including Safety (transportation and storage in geologic formations), Additionality (isn’t EOR business as usual, shouldn’t you count the emissions from the oil production, and why not store only in saline aquifers?), Government support and the changing regulatory landscape (the only government-supported, active, CCS protocol – Alberta, Canada; US EPA's on-going rulemaking process), and the Role of CCS in advancing a clean fuel economy.

Moderator: Bill Townsend, Chief Executive Officer, Blue Source

Speakers:

• Russell Martin, Executive Vice President, Blue Source;
• Nicholas W. van Aelstyn, Principal, Beveridge & Diamond;
• Karen Haugen- Kozyra, Director of Policy Development and Offset Solutions, Climate Change Central

Marketing the Sustainable Development Benefits of a Gold Standard project
Tuesday, 14:30-15:30
Room 125

Firms and the public have grown increasingly interested in the actual impact of carbon finance and the net benefit of offsetting. Buyers frequently wish to do more than "pay for their emissions" and seek "boutique" offsets with highly visible environmental, social, and economic community benefits. This workshop will discuss quantifiable ways to communicate the sustainable development  impact of CER and VER projects, and will examine the demand for "carbon with a human face" in the VER and CER market. 

Speakers:

• Jason Patrick, Vice President, Carbon Markets. Evolution Markets. 
• Carlos Martins, EcoInvest Carbon 

Introducing Green-e Climate
Wednesday, 15:15-16:15
Room 123

Green-e Climate staff will introduce the Green-e Climate certification program to GHG market participants. Green-e Climate is the is the nation's first certification program for carbon offsets sold to consumers on the retail market. This consumer-protection program strengthens the voluntary market by providing credible oversight and transparency to retail offset products, from beginning to end. The side-event will explain the procedures for certification with Green-e Climate and how the program will work with the Voluntary Carbon Standard, the Gold Standard and the CDM.

Speakers: Lars Kvale, Center for Resource Solutions waiting for confirmation of additional speakers.

Student and Academic Research Presentations
Wednesday, 14:00-15:00
Room 124

This side event will host student and academic presentations from various institutions in the United States. Academics will be presenting their cutting edge research on topics such as Reduced Emissions from Deforestation dand Degradation (REDD). Environmental Indices, Carbon Sequestration, and much more.

Climate Exchange PLC; leading global environmental exchanges
Wednesday, 15:15-16:15
Room 124

Climate Exchange PLC, is the parent company of the European Climate Exchange (ECX), Chicago Climate Exchange (CCXY) and Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFEY).

CCX, founded by Richard Sandor, is the world’s first and North America’s only legally binding rules-based greenhouse gas emissions allowance trading system, as well as the world’s only global system for emissions trading based on all six greenhouse gases.

CCFE™, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CCX, is the world's first and leading environmental derivatives exchange, trading futures and options on seven different products.

In 2005, CCX launched the ECX, now the leading exchange operating in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme. Since 2006, both CCX and ECX have been owned by Climate Exchange Plc,(LSE:CLE.L) a publicly traded company listed on the AIM division of the London Stock Exchange.

Speakers: Rob McAndrew, Senior Vice President

CDM-VERs: A New High Quality
Voluntary Offset Option
Wednesday, 14:00-15:00
Room 125

of CDM-VERs (aka "pre-registration VERs") that were put together to allow voluntary offset buyers with needs as small as 1,000 tons or less to purchase Kyoto-quality offsets at a competitive price point. Historically CDM VERs and Certified
Emission Reductions ("CERs") have been available only to buyers with needs of 10,000 tons or greater. However, in response to growing interest from voluntary buyers looking for high-quality offsets, EcoSecurities is offering two portfolios of
CDM-VERs from renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.

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