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2008 Carbon & Climate Change Conference
Austin Convention Center; Austin, TX, 24-25 April 2008

Join leading experts, scientists, financiers, attorneys, executives, legislators, and advisors to the energy and utility sectors at the 2008 Carbon and Climate Change program.

This new major program covers carbon and climate change issues, with a special focus on the geology, science, economics and law applicable to carbon capture, transport, and storage, including EOR applications. The program also includes special sessions on carbon markets, pending laws, incentives, and regulation (both Texas and Federal), and the latest EPA, DOE and FTC initiatives dealing with carbon regulation and "green" marketing.

www.utcle.org

Power 2008
The 12th Annual Power Generation Strategy Conference

Marriot Prague, Czech Republic, 6 - 9 May, 2008

What are you doing to contain increasing costs and exposure to risk inherent in the market-place?

Power 2008 is the best place for you to review and build on your existing power generation strategy.

Join your peers, deal makers and senior strategists from across the European power sector to examine the latest approaches for:

• Securing reliable fuel sources given rising commodity prices
• Evaluating the market prospects for gas given Russia’s strategic European ambitions
• Operating successfully given European market developments and regulation
• Engaging emerging continental markets as a source of growth
• Utilising nuclear and coal electricity generation to counter contracting affordable oil and gas supply

This is a must-attend event!

Register via one of the three simple methods below and quote ENF

+44 (0) 20 7368 9465
amir.sebahat@wbr.co.uk

www.wbr.co.uk/powereurope

The Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency
Amsterdam, 7 – 9 May 2008

Highlights:

• The results of the GRI Readers’ Choice Survey research on the readers’ views on sustainability reporting from nearly 2300 responses
• A gala dinner featuring the GRI Readers’ Choice Award winners
• High profile Keynote speakers, including the Executive Director, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Head of the UN Global Compact
• Interactive sessions with the top corporate decision-makers, including representatives of Anglo American Plc, Shell, British Telecom, and Rabobank
• A televised BBC World Debate, with host Nik Gowing.

www.globalreporting.org

Carbon Trading: Mechanisms, Markets and Money
Westin Hotel, Sydney, Australia, 14 May 2008

With an Emissions Trading Scheme coming into force in less than 2 years, Australia is on countdown to Carbon Trading.

The carbon market is set to be worth $1trillion US in the next 10 years and Carbon Trading: Mechanisms, Markets and Money is the only event in Australia to present the opportunities that are being exposed to the finance community.

Take a day out of your agenda to find out:

• What the ETS will look like and how it will work in practice
• How the big financial institutions in Europe are already trading in carbon
• Why funds managers are investing in carbon abatement schemes
• Which industries’ share prices will be hardest hit and which will benefit from the ETS.

Hear presentations from the leading specialists and entrepreneurs from companies such as Macquarie Bank, Australian Securities Exchange, AMP Capital Investment, Australian Climate Exchange, Baker & McKenzie, ArkX Carbon Fund, Climate Risk…….

www.resourcefulevents.com

Euromoney’s 3rd Renewable Energy Finance Forum - China
The Ritz Carlton Hotel, Beijing, China, 14 - 15 May 2008

The 3rd edition of Renewable Energy Finance Forum China, jointly organised with CREIA, will allow you to raise your company profile in this booming market.

How will you benefit from attending REFF China 2008?
- Meet with and put questions to the regulators who are setting the framework for the market
- Hear from leading venture capitalists and institutional investors how they view the investment landscape for renewables in China
- Review project implementation case studies for wind, solar, biomass and waste-to-energy

Key topics:
- Projected policy changes and navigation of policy requirements
- Investment risk instruments available for renewable energy projects in China
- Climate change initiatives and China’s engagement in the carbon markets
- Chinese cleantech investment opportunities beyond solar and wind turbine manufacturing
- A dedicated debate on the capital markets’ perspective on renewable energy in China

Hear from an expert panel of speakers that includes:
- Gao Guangsheng, Director General, National Coordination Committee on Climate Change, NDRC
- Wang Xiangjin, Division Chief, Policy Division of Energy Bureau, NDRC
- Dr Griffin Thompson, Program Manager, Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development & Climate Change, U.S. State Department
- Zhao Shiming, Chief Executive Officer, Huaneng New Energy Industrial Co Ltd
- Chen Hongzhou, General Manager, Institutional Sales, China Galaxy Securities.

www.reff-china.com

"TBLI Conference™ Asia 2008
Bangkok, Thailand, 29 - 30 May 2008

In just over a month, the eyes of the sustainable investment world will be focused on Bangkok, during the "TBLI Conference™ Asia 2008. With the sustainability thought leaders from around Asia and the world, this year’s conference promises to be the ESG networking and learning event you don't want to miss.

What will issues will be covered this year? Among them: ESG and public equity, cleantech private equity, biofuels, water, project finance, green real-estate investment, faith-consistent investing, and many more.

TBLI CONFERENCE™ EUROPE and ASIA, which take “FAST-TRACKING ESG” as their theme, are expected to attract over 500 participants each from a variety of professional backgrounds, from asset and corporate finance managers to directors of non -governmental organizations (NGOs).

www.tbliconference.com

C5 Insuring Environmental Risks
Millennium Hotel, London, 2- 3 July 2008

C5's  Insuring Environmental Risks will ensure you are completely up-to-date with the shifting law relating to the environment, and the insurance impact of these tumultuous changes

NEW for the 2008 Forum

• What the US environmental liability market can teach us about the penalties and enforcement experience awaiting us
• A company perspective on the environmental liabilities facing it
• How the implementation of the Aarhus Convention will affect the landscape for environmental claims

www.c5-online.com/environment