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DAY ONE: Wednesday
13 June
8.00 Registration
and refreshments
8.50 Chairman’s welcome address
and opening remarks
Michael Northrop, Program Director, Rockefeller Brothers
Fund
9.00
Climate change bills in Congress
Comparing and contrasting the various bills
Assessing congressional support
Likelihood of success
Environmental and economic impacts
Outlook for post-2012 international agreements
Joe Stanko, Partner & Head,
Regulated
Industries & Government Relations, Hunton & Williams
Mark Menezes, Partner, Regulated Industries & Government
Relations, Hunton & Williams
09.30 Lessons
from the Chicago Climate Exchange
Advantages for early movers
Industry actions and financial impacts
Participation from Canada, Mexico and Brazil
Price and volume trends
Potential links with the EU market
Paula DiPerna, Executive vice-president,
Chicago Climate Exchange
10.00 Morning break
10.30
California’s state
plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions
Bringing companies into compliance with California’s
carbon caps
Examining best methods to ensure companies within each industry
sector comply
Using carbon credit program to implement the bill's provisions
Using market based system which allows companies to buy the
right to pollute from others
Achieving the desired amount of reduction without crippling
a
particular industry or company
Coping with the potential of companies leaving the state
or cutting
back rather than be faced with fees
Linda S Adams, Secretary for Environmental Protection,
California Environmental Protection Agency
11.10
The future for carbon trading
Where next for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme?
Changing mix of market participants – compliance buyers,
funds,
speculators etc
Interaction of carbon market with electricity, gas and coal
markets
Post-2012 – towards a global carbon market
Imtiaz Ahmad, Senior carbon trader,
Morgan Stanley
11.50 Clean Development Mechanism
projects in the Americas
Overcoming the confusion around how the Clean Development
Mechanism is implemented
CDM and offset projects and what they will mean in a linked
market
Buying credits in the CDM market
Corinne Boone, Managing Director,
Global Origination, CantorCO2e
12.30 Lunch
2.00 The
International Carbon Market - a new “hot commodity”
for
global investors
Market fundamentals
Carbon assets – EU Allowances, CERs and VERs etc
Analysis of supply and demand factors
Price trends and future outlook
Thorsten Ansorg, Managing Director,
Noble Carbon Credits
2.40 PANEL SESSION. Investment opportunities
in climate change
and the carbon market
Investing in energy efficiency projects
Carbon sequestration vs. emission reductions projects
Engaging countries and companies to participate in carbon
funds
Institutional and private equity investment - moving ahead
with the
environmental agenda
Choosing investments using carbon impact criteria
Financial pressure to force companies to make strategic changes
on climate issues
The role of investor activism in companies' efforts to reduce
their
CO2 emissions
What will the move toward a U.S. cap-and-trade market solution
mean for investors?
Investment managers’ ability to appropriately value carbon
credit
assets
The importance of getting investor buy-in
Demonstrating how investors can achieve maximum ROI in
carbon finance
Opportunities for North American investors in global carbon
finance – how can Americans and Canadians participate?
Assaad Razzouk, Chief Executive,
Sindicatum Carbon Capital (moderator)
Kedin Kilgore, RNK Capital
Matthew Kiernan, Chief Executive, Innovest
Rob Berridge, Program Manager, Ceres
3.30
Afternoon break
4.00 The
Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
A voluntary approach to carbon reduction
Multiple development benefits of clean energy technologies
Finding technological solutions to climate change
Policy, regulatory issues, and practical emission reduction
solutions
Griffin M. Thompson, Program Manager,
Asia-Pacific Partnership on
Clean Development & Climate and Senior Energy Advisor,
Bureau of
Oceans, Environment and Science; U.S. Department of State
4.40 Chairman’s closing remarks
4.50 End of Day One
5.00-7.00 Networking drinks reception
sponsored by Noble Carbon Credits
DAY TWO: Thursday
14 June
8.00 Registration and refreshments
8.50 Chairman’s welcome address
and opening remarks
John Deacon, Partner,
Energy & Project Finance, Hunton and
Williams
9.00
Lessons learnt from Europe's Emissions Trading Scheme
Cap and trade in Europe: successes and challenges of Phase
I
Trading patterns and price trends – is the market liquid?
CERs – the global emissions commodity?
Outlook for EU-Phase II and beyond
When will there be a global cap-and-trade emissions market?
Peter Koster, CEO, European
Climate Exchange
9.30 Update on the Kyoto Protocol and
voluntary markets
Progress towards targets
Developments in CDM and Joint Implementation projects
Issues for COP/MOP 3
Marco Monroy, President, MGM
International
10.00 Morning break
10.30 CASE STUDY: American Electric
Power (AEP)
AEP’s actions and strategy
Examining the strategy and what is being done to reduce
GHG emissions
Designing future federal legislation
Examining appropriate ideas to move legislation forward
Bruce Braine, Vice President of
Strategic Policy Analysis, American Electric Power
11.00 Key issues for creating high-quality
offsets
The role of carbon offsets in a comprehensive climate policy
Key attributes of carbon offsets – additionality, quantification,
permanence
The importance of offset quality – and defining it
Pros and cons of different offset types
Where offsets fit in corporate emissions reduction strategies
Development needs of carbon offset market
Mike Burnett, Executive Director,
The Climate Trust
11.30 Perspectives on developing carbon
capture and sequestration
technologies
The evolving regulatory scheme for governing the capture,
storage
and sequestration of CO2 emissions
Regulatory and geological considerations for establishing
future
research agendas for carbon capture and sequestration
Moving forward to facilitate carbon capture and sequestration
Forecasting the potential contribution to emissions reductions
that
carbon capture and storage represents
Bill Townsend, CEO, Blue Source
12.00 Carbon as a global reserve currency
A transatlantic gateway and long-term American price certainty
vs.
short-term European and Japanese price spikes
A trans-pacific gateway and trade deficits
ECX, CCX and CER futures and fungibility
Geological and biological sequestration as the medium-term
climate
change mitigation solution
Seb Walhain, Director, Environmental
Markets, Fortis Bank
12.30 Lunch
2.00 Outlook for Regional Greenhouse
Gas
Initiative Goals and guiding principles
Review of model rule
Update on participating and observing states
Progress of working groups
Gina McCarthy, Commissioner,
Department of Environmental Protection, State of Connecticut
2.30 Linking US regional and international
GHG abatement programs
Exploring opportunities to link emerging carbon abatement
programs in
North America and beyond
Program design and implementation issues
Learning from experience, existing institutions and international
initiatives
Adam Diamant, Senior Project Manager,
Global Climate Research
Program, Electric Power Research Institute
3.00 Afternoon break
3.30
International Developments
outside the US
Forecasting the future
What will happen after 2012?
Joanna Lewis, Senior International
Fellow, Pew
Center on Global Climate Change
4.00 Global climate change – the
mitigation challenge
Quantifying the global change challenge
Identifying the technologies needed to sufficiently avoid
carbon
dioxide emissions
Understanding how technologies alone will not be sufficient
to
constrain emissions
Examining the higher costs and/or greater operational uncertainties
compared with carbon-intensive technologies
Characteristics of policies needed to encourage utilisation
of new
technologies.
Frank Princiotta, Director of
the Air Pollution Prevention and
Control Division, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
4.30 Chairman’s closing remarks
and close of conference
Workshop
Programme
Presented by
8:15 Registration and
coffee
8.50 Welcome
9.00 Introduction to flexibility
mechanisms
Project-based mechanisms - CDM & JI
Maria Pia Iannariello, MGM International
Project-based mechanisms - VERs
Ricardo Byon, Ecosystem Marketplace
Emissions Trading (EUAs, AAUs)
Imtiaz Ahmad, Morgan Stanley
10.00 Coffee break
10.20 Identifying projects: determining
the relative benefits of different project types
Marco G. Monroy, MGM International
11.00 Monitoring and verifying emission
reductions in Kyoto and Voluntary Markets
Roy Williams, manager, SGS
12.00 Lunch
1.15 How to sell the credits –
negotiating a contract
Claudio Lutzky, MGM International
Rob Marsh, Hunton & Williams
2.00 Operating in the voluntary markets
Nancy King, Morgan Stanley
2.30 Coffee Break
2.50 Current US initiatives and
outlook
Gregory Lawrence, McDermott, Will
& Emery LLP
Cathy Lee (on RGGI)
3.45 Closing – applying lessons
learned in the EU ETS and Kyoto market to the US market
Imtiaz Ahmad, Morgan Stanley
(on the EU ETS)
Maria Pia Iannariello, MGM International
(on the CDM)
4.30 End of Workshop
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