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Carbon Market Insights Americas 2008 Day 2

8:00am Registration & Exhibit Hall Open

9:00am Introduction

• Per-Otto Wold, CEO, Point Carbon

9:15am Keynote Address – Communicating Climate Change

• Keynote Speaker: Tom Friedman, New York Times Columnist and Pulitzer Prize Winning Author

Topics:

• What does public opinion tell us about policy alternatives?
• How can emerging communication technologies help us better communicate climate science and policy?
• Are we in danger of climate information fatigue or being overpowered by “green noise”?

10:15am Plenary Session – From Bali to Copenhagen: An International Perspective

• Moderator: Elliot Diringer, Vice President, International Strategies, Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Topics:

• International progress on climate policy
• How to pull together a global agreement
• Realistic options for post-2012

Panel Speakers:

• Fernando Tudela, Under Secretary for Planning and Environment Policy, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico
• Thomas Becker, Head of International Department, Ministry of the Environment, Denmark
• Kuni Shimada, Principal International Policy Coordinator, Ministry of Environment, Japan
• André Odenbreit Carvalho, Head of Division for Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Foreign Relations, Brazil

11.15am Networking Coffee Break

11:45am Financing Technology

• Moderator: Aimée Christensen, Founder & CEO, Christensen Global Strategies

Topics:

• The role and ambitions of the International Clean Technology Fund
• What to expect from carbon capture and storage
• Tradeoffs and complementarities between public and private financing
• Private equity perspectives on the barriers and opportunities for clean energy financing

• Tracy McKibben, Managing Director and Head of Environmental Banking Strategy, Citi
• William A. Pizer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Energy, US Department of Treasury
• Glen Robinson, Vice President, Asset Management and Development, Exelon Power
• Mark Cirilli, Co-founder & Managing Director, MissionPoint Capital Partners

11:45am Using REDD To Go Green

• Moderator: Jorend Buen, Director, Point Carbon

Topics:

• The role of offset credits from land use change *How to reward avoided deforestation in a global climate regime
• Market impacts of forest project credits

Panel Speakers:

• Dr. Sandra Brown, Senior Scientist, Winrock’s International Ecosystem Services Unit
• Benoit Bosquet, Senior Natural Resources Management Specialist, The World Bank
• Joanna Durbin, Director of the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance, Conservation International
• Florence Daviet, Associate, World Resources Institute
• Lenny Hochschild, Managing Director, Evolution Markets

1:45pm Carbon Offset Trends

• Moderator: Kyle Danish, Partner, Van Ness Feldman & Counsel, Coalition for Emission Reduction Projects

Topics:

• Agriculture and forestry: new sources of offset supply?
• How much is too much: constraints on offset use in carbon trading programs
• Additionality – what makes a project ‘count’?

Panel Speakers:

• Gary Gero, President & CEO, California Climate Action Registry
• David Miller, Director of Research and Commodity Services, Iowa Farm Bureau
• Rick Adcock, SVP, Origination and Investment, CAMCO
• Rich Rosenzweig, COO, Natsource

1:45pm Addressing Competitiveness Concerns

• Moderator: Manik Roy, Vice President, Federal Government Outreach, Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Topics:

• How is a federal climate program likely to affect energy-intensive industries that trade globally?
• How much risk is there that jobs, production, and emissions will move overseas?
• What can be done to address these concerns? Trade measures? Compensating firms with allowance value? Other options?

Panel Speakers:

• Meg McDonald, President, Alcoa Foundation
• Trevor Houser, Director of the Energy and Climate Practice, Rhodium Group & Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Robert Baugh, Executive Director, Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIO & Chair, Energy Task Force, AFL-CIO
• Peter Molinaro, Vice President, Federal and State Government Affairs, The Dow Chemical Company
• James Bradbury, Legislative Assistant, Congressman Jay Inslee (WA-1)

3:30pm Focus on Transportation

• Moderator: Vicki Arroyo, Director of Policy Analysis, Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Topics: Panel will cover the three contributing factors to emissions in this sector

• equipment efficiency, carbon content of fuels, and usage patterns—and ways to address them
• How could cap and trade be integrated with renewable- or low-carbon fuel standards?
• Can we find a balance in the use of crops for fuel versus food?

Panel Speakers:

• Mary D. Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources Board
• David Hone, Climate Change Manager, Shell International
• Margo Oge, Director, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, EPA
• Beth Lowery, VP, Environment and Energy, General Motors

3:30pm Focus on Electricity, Power and Gas

• Moderator: Jurgen Weiss, Managing Director, Advisory Services, Point Carbon

Topics:

• How will carbon prices influence fuel and power prices?
• How will the power sector meet its target?
• The impact on the gas sector

Panel Speakers:

• Mark Brownstein, Managing Director, Climate and Air Program, Environmental Defense Fund
• Melissa Lavinson, Director, Federal Environmental Affairs and Corporate Responsibility, PG&E
• Swaminathan Venkataraman, Energy Analysis, S&P
• Pat Concessi, Partner, Global Energy Markets Practice, Deloitte & Touche
• Chris Sherman, General Counsel, New England Power Generators Association

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