Climate change continues to present businesses with enormous
economic opportunities. And it will be those companies that seek
out these opportunities and act proactively amidst environmental
risks that will benefit the most.
By engaging in initiatives such as carbon trading, carbon
capture and storage, and low carbon shipping business will be able
to adapt and flow with the necessary constraints of a
carbon-constrained global economy.
During these sessions major players involved in the development
of these climate change practices and policies will address the
challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Now What? Dialogue on Implications For Business from
COP15
This dialogue will focus on how businesses can create short and
long-range planning decisions despite the lack of outcomes from the
COP15 meeting in Denmark. It
will focus on how these lack of results are affecting business
strategies and how companies are assessing ongoing climate change
policies at international, national, and regional levels.
Speakers include:
Velma McColl, Principal, Earnscliffe Strategy Group, Ottawa, ON,
Canada (Moderator)
Daniel J. Gagnier, Chairman, Board of
Directors, International Institute for Sustainable
Development, Rawdon, QC, Canada
Daniel T. Hendrix, President & CEO, Interface Inc., Atlanta, GA, USA
David Parker, Vice President, Sustainability,
Teck Resources Ltd, Vancouver, BC,
Canada
Graeme Sweeney, Executive Vice President, CO2,
Shell International Petroleum Co. Ltd., London,
UK
Update on North American Carbon Trading
Initiatives
During this session speakers will discuss how carbon trading
regimes will work throughout North America. Some of the questions
that will be answered include how the various carbon trading
schemes will operate in an integrated economy and what the
implications as well as opportunities are for businesses operating
in North America.
Carbon Capture and Storage: Update on
Innovation
Although some carbon capture and storage
http://climate.pembina.org/carbon-capture-and-storage (CCS)
and clean coal technologies seem promising (some saying CCS could
capture between fifteen and fifty-five percent of the world's
greenhouse gas emissions) there are still no commercial CCS plants
in operation. Throughout this session attendees will hear from
pioneers in the CCS and clean coal industries as they explain how
the future of emissions-free fossil fuel power plants is a positive
one.
Innovative Policies for Effective Carbon Capture &
Storage (CCS)
CCS has the ability to divert atmospheric carbon dioxide
emissions from fossil fuel power generation and industry by 90
percent. Even with these obvious benefits widespread use of CCS is
not occurring. This session, moderated by Mr. Anthony Cary,
British High Commissioner to Canada with a panel of Canadian and UK
CCS experts, will explore how an effective policy and regulatory
framework will help to implement the wide-spread use of CCS.
Low Carbon Shipping
Which companies are leading the way in environmental shipping
performance and what are the best environmentally friendly
transport options available? Join Catherine
Higgens, Director General, Environmental Affairs,
Transport Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada (Moderator), Helmi
Ansari, Sustainability Director, Frito Lay Canada, Mississauga, ON, Canada,
Stephen blank, Co-Chair, North American
Transportation Competitiveness Research Council, New York, NY, USA,
Harry J. Haney III, Associate Director, Logistics
Operations, Kraft Foods, Northfield, IL, USA,
and Ken Johnston, President, Novex
Couriers, Richmond, BC, Canada as they explore various
environmentally-friendly shipping initiatives and options.
Voluntary Carbon Markets: Opportunities and
Risks
Carbon offsetting has
become a popular way for companies and institutions to work towards
"carbon neutrality". As accountability and standardization
increases what will this mean for business? Speakers during this
session include:
Linda Coady, Vice President, Sustainability, Vancouver Organizing Committee for
the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver, BC,
Canada (Moderator)
Robert Falls, CEO, ERA Ecosystem Restoration Associates ,
North Vancouver, BC, Canada
D. Scott MacDonald, President & CEO, Pacific Carbon Trust, Victoria,
BC, Canada
Mustapha Ouyed, Project Director, Climate
Change, Golder Associates , Victoria,
BC, Canada
James Tansey, Co-Founder & President, Offsetters; Executive Director, Centre for
Sustainability and Social Innovation, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
To find out more about these sessions, to register for GLOBE
2010, or to see the full speaker list click here.
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