Event programme

Special topic: A green economy? Hosted by Michael Heseltine, Chairman, Haymarket Media Group

Hosted by Anne McIvor, Editor, Cleantech Magazine & Ian Tubby, Co-Director, Biomass Energy Centre
- Feed-in tariffs
- Selling back to the grid
- Biomass & biofuels for business
- Heating & transportation

Hosted by Jamie Wallace,  BP
The simple mechanics behind carbon trading explained.

Is the future regulatory landscape for climate change a threat or an opportunity for UK and European businesses?

Chair
- Mike Kelly, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, KPMG

Panel
- Patrick Birley, CEO, European Climate Exchange
- Paul Dickinson, CEO, Carbon Disclosure Project
- Philippe Chauvancy, Director, BlueNext
- Mark Kenber, Policy Director, The Climate Group

Hosted by Keith Brierley, Environment Agency

Hosted byMatthew Evans, Network Manager, The EIC Environmental Investment Network

The panel will bring together the following
expertise, to critique investment presentation

- Legal: Clarkslegal LLP
- Technical: Forbury Environmental Ltd
- Investment: Oxford Capital Partners
- IP: Mathys & Squire LLP

Please note: this session is free to attend on a first-come, first-served basis in the Carbon Corner.

Hosted Imtiaz Ahmad, Executive Director, Fixed Income, Morgan Stanley
- Overview of the current market
- Sourcing carbon finance
- What is the potential for future investment?

Hosted by Fortis Bank

Do you have what it takes to compete in the carbon trading environment? An interactive trading game simulating real trading dynamics will make you aware of today's challenges carbon professionals are faced with. Experts from Fortis Carbon Banking will discuss a variety of integrated solutions for finance, trading and settlement. You lose, you learn. You win....?

Please note: this session is FREE to attend on a first-come, first-served basis.

Hosted by Caroline Doble,Consulting Group Director, Climate Change and Renewables, Enviros
- How do you measure a carbon footprint?
- The experience and benefits of doing a carbon footprint.
- How do you reduce your carbon footprint?

Hosted by Daniel Turner, Head of Disclosure Team, Carbon Disclosure Project

Daniel Turner Head of Disclosure at the Carbon Disclosure Project will be revealing how advanced corporations are in tackling climate change. The world's largest organisations report their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies annually through CDP and this years latest results will be discussed at the Carbon Corner. Topics covered will include the quality of greenhouse gas emissions disclosure and targets, the risk and opportunities that corporations see from climate change, and which industry sectors are performing well. 

Please note: this session is FREE to attend on a first-come, first-served basis in the Carbon Corner.

Will cap and trade carbon markets deliver the carbon savings needed from business? Are credible, price-stable, global carbon markets a realistic proposition?

Chair
- Henry Derwent, Chairman, IETA

Panel
- Emmanuel Fages, Senior Analyst, Orbeo
- Neil Cornelius, Head of European Energy Markets, ICF International
- Andreas Arvanitakis, Senior Analyst, Point Carbon
- Harshika Patel, Head of Environmental Markets Sales and Structuring, Barclays   Capital

Hosted by Lara Naqushbandi, CDM Specialist, Climate Change Capital
- Investment Decisions
- Practical Advice

Hosted by Henry Garthwaite, Business Development Manager, The Carbon Trust Standard Company
- Providing a robust methodology for your business.

Hosted by: Daniel Waller and Mark Johnson, Knowledge Leaders, AEA

Daniel Waller and Mark Johnson share what proactive businesses are now doing to prepare for financial and brand success in the CRC. Going beyond compliance timelines, this session will provide vital answers to some of the CRC's biggest challenges, including:

• How to define your CRC organisation
• How to protect your 'value at stake'
• How to manage compliance across dispersed franchise, tenant and retail networks
• How and when to start to make energy savings
• How to play the league table

Hosted By: Jeremy Grant, Senior Correspondent, FT.com

Hosted by Mark Kenber, Policy Director, The Climate Group
Making sense & understanding the difference.

Hosted by Craig MacKenzie, Technical Director, ENDS Carbon
- What are the benefits of sector specific benchmarking on carbon management?
- Can it help achieve real reductions?
- Best in class examples will be shared.

Hosted by Peter Gilbert,VP, ecoSoftware , CA

Information Technology is often a considerable consumer of power but IT can also help you improve carbon management organization-wide.
·Reducing energy use of (and with) IT
·Software innovations in carbon accounting
·Systematic management of your carbon mitigation program

Hosted by Lisa Ashford, Associate Director, Head of Voluntary and New Markets EcoSecurities, Baker Mackenzie & ClimateBiz

EcoSecurities, Baker Mackenzie & ClimateBiz announce the findings of the Carbon Offsetting Trends report 2009

Find out what more that 275 leading multinational organisations are doing in terms of their carbon management strategies. Building on the previous years finding, this quantitative research study has been compiled into a comprehensive report providing insight and information reguarding the carbon management strategies companies are deploying and what impact [if any] the economic and legislative situation may have had.

Please note: this session is free to attend in the Carbon Corner.

Will the Carbon Reduction Commitment significantly reduce carbon emissions or could it become more of a business burden than climate benefit? This session will be followed by the interactive session, ' Your toolkit to the CRC - All you need to know'.

Chair
- Daniel Waller, Knowledge Leader, AEA

Panel
- Harry Morrison, General Manager, The Carbon Trust Standard Company
- Niall Mackenzie, Head of National Carbon Markets, DECC
- Dr Bernd Leven, Senior Manager - Energy & Carbon Strategy, BT
- Tom Bainbridge, Partner, Nabarro

Hosted by Etienne Gabel, Senior Consultant Climate & Power, ICF International
- Convergence or continue divergence?
- How will the two regimes interact? What will be the linkages between them? What are the key policy similarities and differences? Will there be a trans-atlantic fight over offsets?
- ICF discusses these in light of their recently published U.S and EU Carbon Market Studies.

Hosted by James Patterson, Senior Manager, Environ
A step by step guide to maximising your position in the CRC Performance League Table.

Host: Amit Oza, Senior Emissions Broker, TFS Green

This session will take a critical look at carbon trading schemes emerging worldwide and current trading activity. Topics will include the developing policies on a US trading scheme, the trends and structures in primary CER deals, looking ahead to Phase 3 of the EU ETS and the likely impacts of the CRC in the UK.

TFS Green will call on its experience and insights from the unique position as an independent broker in international environmental markets to sift through the issues to determine how trading in these markets will develop up to 2012 and beyond.

Please note: this session is free to attend on a first-come, first-served basis in the Carbon Corner

A great opportunity to come along and discuss today's CRC issues with Daniel Waller and Mark Johnson of AEA, fellow 2degrees members and the 2degrees Solutions Team ...whilst relaxing with a glass of wine and nibbles.

Your networking and problem sharing doesn't stop at the event as we will be posting selected discussions in our forums to get input from the 4700 sustainability professionals already actively collaborating on the 2degrees network.

This session is for members of 2degrees visiting the Carbon Show.

If you are not a member of 2degrees and want to join us in this networking area you can sign up to 2degrees now (URL link - http://www.2degreesnetwork.com/register/promotion/fe3puzej/)

Entry level access to 2degrees is Free, and if you sign up before the 29th of September you will be upgraded to two months business level access.

Hosted by Matthew Townsend, Partner Allen & Overy

- How far will the carbon price drive or inhibit investment?
- Is it possible to have price stability in the current regulatory framework?
- Is a minimum carbon price required?

Hosted by Tony Siantonas, Associate Director, Dcarbon8
- What is carbon labelling?
- What are the business benefits?
- Cutting carbon across the supply chain
- Communicating best practice to your customers

Hosted by Feargal Mee, Environmental Director,  Carbon Action

Measuring and managing an orgainsation's carbon footprint is a business best practice that is quickly becoming a requirement in today's competitive marketplace. So why isn't everyone doing it? Why haven't you dont it yet? 

Perhaps it's because the carbon management world looks to confusing- maybe even a little intimidating. It's probably outside the core competency of your organization. You know it needs to be done, but how do you go about it? ISO 14064 brings a globally accepted standard to what is becoming a global market. This session will help project developers to account for GHG reductions made by means of specific reduction projects. 

Please note: this session is free to attend on a first-come, first-served basis in the Carbon Corner.

This session is free to attend for all visitors. To reserve your place, please register for the plenary session online.

Is the UK's early commitment to ambitious emission reductions and progressive carbon policy driving opportunity for UK businesses in the new global low carbon economy? This session will highlight some of the of international business opportunities emerging across specific sectors of the economy as global markets transition to a low carbon future.

Chair - Michael Ward, Director Low Carbon, UK Trade & Investment

Panel

- Mike Short, Vice-President R&D, O2-Telefonica
- Vicky Elliot, Head, Climate Change Projects Office
- Ram Ramchander, Chief Operating Officer, Greenstone Carbon,
- Bruce Duguid , Head Of Investor Relations, Carbon Trust

Launch of the Carbon Yearbook by ENDS. All visitors are welcome to attend, please indicate when registering whether you will be attending the drinks reception.

In an interactive discussion with the audience the panel outlined below will examine the various pros and cons of reforestation projects, looking at options that could be explored to bridge the financing gap whilst still appealing to potential voluntary carbon buyers.

Chair:  
- Lisa Ashford, Head of Voluntary and New Markets, EcoSecurities

Panellists
- Hassen Bali, Vice President, Markit Environmental Registry
- Jan Fehse, Head of Ecosystems Services, EcoSecurities
- Alex Morrison, Head of Governance, Plan Vivo Foundation

To attend this event RSVP to marketing@ecosecurities.com

When will the low carbon economy become a reality? What will be the impact on business? Will the benefits to business exceed the burdens?

Chair
- Peter Young, Strategy Director, Enviros, Chairman of Aldersgate Group

Panel
- Adrian Wilkes, Chairman, Environmental Industries Commission
- James Cameron, Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Climate Change Capital
- David Kennedy, Chief Executive, Committee on Climate Change
- Nicholas Schoon, Editor ENDS Report 
- Owen Lomas, Partner, Allen & Overy

Hosted by Shelagh Whitley, Senior Associate, Camco
- Why invest?
- What is the return on investment?
- Who will buy in this market?

Hosted by Jonathan Counsell, Head of Sustainability, British Airways
- Case Study: how aviation can cut CO2 emissions

Please note: this session is free to attend on a first-come, first-served basis in the Carbon Corner.

Hosted by Jonathan Shopley, Chairman, ICROA and Caroline Spence, ICROA Programme Manager, ICROA
- What is offsetting?
- Offsetting as part of the reduction journey
- What are the types of projects available?

Hosted by Andreas Zachariah, CEO, Carbon Diem
- Technology solutions as hardware and software
- Implementing smart metering
- Comparing the savings

Hosted by William Connelly, Co-chair, AIA Pax Natura Foundation
- Will there be a return on forestry projects?
- When will forestry become a market?
- What are the obstacles?

Hosted by Alejandro Saenz-Core, Carbon Team Business Leader, Mott Macdonald

Hosted by Graham Jennings, Head of Sustainability, London Development Agency
- Retrofitting buildings
- Reducing energy bills
- Opportunities for investment

Please note: this session is free to attend on a first-come, first-served basis in the Carbon Corner.

Hosted by Fortis Bank

Do you have what it takes to compete in the carbon trading environment? An interactive trading game simulating real trading dynamics will make you aware of today's challenges carbon professionals are faced with. Experts from Fortis Carbon Banking will discuss a variety of integrated solutions for finance, trading and settlement. You lose, you learn. You win....? 

Please note: this session is free to attend on a first-come, first-served basis.

Hosted by: Rachel Skinner, Head of Transportation & Planning, Parsons Brinckerhoff
- How to meet current long term growth targets in the light of the environmental pressures and economic conditions.

Hosted by Ben Plowden, Director of Planning, Transport for London
- Increasing transport efficiency
- Tackling climate change
- Improving quality of life

Will new business and investment opportunities through carbon finance, projects and markets enable the development of a low carbon economy?

Chair
- Jonathan Shopley, Chair, ICROA; MD, The Carbon Neutral Company

Panel
- Anthony Hobley, Head of Climate Change & Carbon Finance, Norton Rose
- Dr Coos Battjes, Former Vice President - Energy Trading, Credit Suisse
- Abyd Karmali, MD, Head of Global Carbon Emissions, Merrill Lynch
- Sak Nayagam, Climate Change Lead, Accenture

Hosted by Heather Haydock, Knowledge Leader, Climate Change Policy,  AEA

Learn how Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACCs) can help your organisation prioritise and develop robust business cases for carbon reduction projects. 

See how, by using a MACC, you will know with confidence that you are implementing the right carbon reduction projects at the right time

Understand how carbon reduction projects can become self-financing and learn from real life examples of the application of MACCs in practice

Please note: this session is free to attend on a first-come, first-served basis in the Carbon Corner

Hosted by Matt Davis Carbon & Energy Product Manager, IM Serv

Presenting the business case for environmental excellence in the modern market place. Demonstrating the integral role sustainability will have in the future competitive capacity.

Hosted by Mike Manson, Manageing Director - Innovation, ClimateCare 

Hosted by Joanne Pollard, CEO, Co2 Sense Yorkshire

With new legislation, tough targets, and a recession, business need all the help that they can get to reduce their carbon footprint while staying profitable. Your FD has already made it clear that hiring new teams to learn about the challenges of a low-carbon economy isn't the answer. This seminar shows you how you could get the help that you need. 

Hosted by Chris Methven, Director, IHS Global

- Managing a complex multi-media emissions portfolio
- The challenges of managing compliance across multiple legislative boundaries
- The emergence of reporting 'standards' and what this means for your business
- How IHS has helped the worlds largest companies with all of these issues

Please note: this session is free to attend on a first-come, first-served basis in the Carbon Corner.

Hosted by Andrew Clifford and Foroutan Parand, Scott Wilson

- Measuring your portfolio or asset
- Increasing the efficiency of your building
- Payback and increasing value

How much will direct carbon reductions from UK and EU businesses contribute towards the establishment of a low carbon economy? This session will also include the interactive session 'Your toolkit to the CRC - All you need to know'.

Chair
- Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent, Financial Times

Panel
- John Curtis, Head of Global Sustainability & Climate Change, ERM
- Rhian Kelly, Head of Climate Change, CBI
- Mike Mason, Founder, J.P Morgan
- Robin Oakley, Head of Climate and Energy, Greenpeace

Host: Bureau Veritas
The impacts of CRC on the various roles within your Organisation.

Hosted by Sak Nayagam, Climate Change Lead, Accenture & CDP

Hosted by Pano Kroko of EP {Moderator} Chairman of the Environmental Parliament and acclaimed Philosopher, author of the book: Gift Economy, sharing the gifts of the Earth Ecosystem Services

This panel includes:
-Dimitri Zenghelis of the LSE. Co-author of the STERN report and a Chatham house fellow. Cisco environment economist.
- John B Davies, of FOE. Friends of the Earth original activist and foundational independent thinker. Promoter of Carbon tax.
- Andrew Hagan, Global Leadership Fellow, Environmentalist, Head of Chemical Industry forum at the World Economic Forum.
- Clennell Colingwood, Cambridge technologist and Chemical Engineer.

This Session is FREE to attend 

Hosted by Mark Shayler, MD, Eco3

Please note: this session is free to attend on a first-come, first-served basis in the Carbon Corner.

Hosted by Mauricio Bermudez Neubauer, Climate Change & CTRM Practices, Accenture

-Cap & Trade What's next?

Hosted by: Ravi Kantamaneni, Senior Manager, ICF International
- Lessons learned from the application of ICF's Energy efficiency portfolio management and Do Your Part behaviour change tools.

How will the technologies for renewable energy facilitate the future low carbon revolution?

Chair
- James Wilde, Director of Insights, Carbon Trust

Panel
- Dr Grant Bourhill, Director of Delivery, Energy Technologies Institute
- Jeff Chapman, Chief Executive, Carbon Capture & Storage Association
- Alex Marshall, Energy Correspondent, The ENDS Report
- Dr Michel Girard, Director, Canadian Standards Association

Hosted by Andrew Hitchings, Environment Agency