Seminars

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Time Session Title & Description Sponsor
10.15–11.00

LBT1 Renewable technology for business – Overview

Hosted by Anne Mclvor, Editor, Cleantech Magazine & Ian Tubby, Co-Director, Biomass Energy Centre

- Feed-in tariffs
- Selling back to the grid
- Biomass & biofuels for business
- Heating & transportation

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10.30–11.15

CMT1 Carbon Markets – All you need to know

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

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10.45–11.30

CCT1 Your toolkit for the Carbon Reduction Commitment- all you need to know!

Hosted by Keith Brierley, Environment Agency

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11.30–12.15

CMT2 Explaining the ETS & current compliance markets

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

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11.45–12.30

CCT2 Carbon footprinting & the Business Benefits

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

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12.30–13.15

CMT3 How to select the best carbon reduction project for your needs

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

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12.45–13.30

CCT3 The Carbon Trust Standard Company

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

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13.15–14.00

LBT4 The Carbon Reduction Commitment - how to stay ahead

Hosted By: Daniel Waller & 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

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13.30–14.15

CMT4 Choosing the right standard & accreditation

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

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13.45–14.30

CCT4 Carbon benchmarking: The UK supermarket sector

Hosted by Craig Mackenzie, 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

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14.15–15.00

LBT5 Carbon & IT in your Business

Hosted by Peter Gilbert, VP,ecoSoftware, CA

Information Technology is often a considerable consumer of power but ITcan 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

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14.30–15.15

CMT5 Latest developments of US and EU Carbon Policy

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.

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14.45–15.30

CCT5 Developing a CRC mitigation strategy

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

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15.30–16.15

CMT6 The impacts of the carbon markets on renewables and nuclear

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?

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15.45–16.30

CCT6 Supply chain reporting & carbon labelling

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

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10.15–11.00

CMW1 Future of voluntary markets

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

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10.30–11.15

CCW1 - Using offsetting as part of a carbon management programme

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

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10.45–11.30

LBW1 Carbon Measurement - How smart metering can save you money, time and carbon

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

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11.15–12.00

CMW2 Avoided deforestation and the role of the natural forests as the first wedge of climate change mitgation

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?

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11.15–12.00

CCW2 Demonstrating effective carbon management - case studies in practice

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

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11.45–12.30

LBW2 Sustainable Transportation - how do we meet our transportation challenges sustainably

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

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12.15–13.00

CCW3 Decarbonising transport

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

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13.15–14.00

CMW4 Understanding Asia's Peat fires: A Mega-scale emissions source with world scale Emissions Credit opportunities

Host: Mike Mason, Managing Director- Innovation, ClimateCare

 

 

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13.15–14.00

CCW4 Why regional approach to reducing carbon is the most effective way of achieving the UK's targets

Hosted by Joanne Pollard, CEO, Co2 Sense Yorkshire 

With new legislation, tough targets, and a recession, businesses 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. 

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13.45–14.30

LBW4 Carbon reduction of buildings in use

Hosted By Andrew Clifford and Foroutan Parand

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

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14.15–15.00

CCW5 Best practice carbon reporting & accounting: What gets measured gets managed

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

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14.45–15.30

LBW5 Low carbon Technology

Hosted by Matt Davis, Carbon and Energy Product Manager, IMServ

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

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15.15–16.00

CMW6 Looking ahead; carbon markets post Copenhagen

Host: Mauricio Bermudez Neubauer, Climate Change & CTRM Practices, Accenture
-Cap & Trade what's next?

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15.15–16.00

CCW6 Energy efficiency portfolio management and behaviour change tools and techniques

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.

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15.45–16.30

LBW6 Your toolkit for the Carbon Reduction Commitment - All you need to know!

Hosted by Andrew Hitchings, Environment Agency

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