“Across the world, all eyes are on California,” was stated several times during North America’s largest annual carbon conference this week in Los Angeles. It referred to the big timely news of the week, Governor Jerry Brown signing the AB 32 legislation requiring that 33% of energy come from renewable sources by 2020. At the event “Navigating the American Carbon World” government regulators, utility companies, nonprofits, and the world of investments, were excited about the introduction of a cap and trade program in the U.S

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(Reuters) – The global carbon market will not be worth $1-2 trillion a year by 2020 if the United States does not speed up efforts for a federal emissions trading scheme, delegates warned at a carbon conference in London on Monday.

“There will be, I’m afraid, no real expansion of the carbon markets to their global potential without movement in the U.S.,” said Henry Derwent, chief executive and president of the International Emissions Trading Association.

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Last chance before Copenhagen climate negotiations for industry and governments to meet
SINGAPORE, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Dr. Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN agency in charge of the Kyoto Protocol, has just confirmed that a representative from their Accreditation and Project Assessment unit will be meeting with carbon buyers and sellers in China, in a last chance for the industry to meet before the Copenhagen climate negotiations determine a successor to the current treaty expiring in 2012. Ms. Maria Laura Vinuela will be joining them at the World Carbon Conference in Beijing together with China’s NDRC Energy Research Institute, the European Commission, and likely representatives from the Indian negotiating team and the World Bank. Ms. Vinuela will be meeting with CEOs and Managing Directors from across the worldwide carbon finance industry to gain feedback on the project registration process and provide updates on the latest developments in the current carbon trading framework.

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September & October 2009 – Carbon Conferences

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This week’s Carbon Market Insights Conference in Copenhagen has proved emissions trading is not as dull as it sounds. Just look at the debate of the dramatic price falls in the price of carbon, or the ideological splits emerging between the EU and UN’s climate negotiators.

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Experts from industry, academia and carbon consultancies agree the cost of the carbon trading scheme will hit small and medium size enterprises (SME) from two directions.

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Carbon & Environmental Footprint Supply Chain Summit 2008
15-16 September 2008, The Westin, Times Square, New York

ONLY A MONTH remains before the ever-popular Carbon & Environmental Footprint Supply Chain Summit takes place in Times Square, New York on the 15-16 September. Now the 5th stage in the widely-acclaimed international series, we are delighted to announce the involvement of a delegation from Disney and attendees from companies as varied as Clorox, PepsiCo and Hilmar Cheese as the latest additions to what is a phenomenal gathering of senior, strategic decision-makers from the world’s leading consumer brands and the key members of their supply chain.

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