Carbon Led Investing

Peter C. Fusaro, Professor Jacek P. Siry
The experts will share insights and perspectives based on their “hands-on-experience” in this space and will address the following:

• Carbon emissions - facts, figures, fantasy
• Carbon sequestration
• How investible is it as an asset class?
• Could carbon become the biggest of any derivative product over the next 4-5 years?
• Cap and trade as a mechanism
• Carbon compensation: growing, cultivating, harnessing forests, other offsetting methods
• Pricing carbon emissions - the mechanics
• The prospects for carbon trading post 2012
• Role of the US - shifting from a voluntary to a compulsory system
• Agreeing on a global regulatory framework - how realistic?
• The EU endorsed a plan in December 2008 to reduce the 27-nation bloc's greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020.Member states and other developed countries are urged to increase that figure to 30 per cent – how realistic is this?

Date of webinar: 11. Feb. 2009 (16.00 Swiss Time) (10.00 EST)

Biography of Author: Jacek P. Siry, serves as associate professor of forest economics at The University of Georgia’s Center for Forest Business. He has expertise and experience in forest carbon sequestration, forest industry competitiveness issues including timber trade, availability and cost, that span the world’s major producing regions. Peter C. Fusaro is an energy industry thought leader noted for his keen insights in emerging energy and environmental financial markets and has been at the forefront of energy and environmental change for over 30 years focusing on oil, gas, power, coal, emissions, carbon trading and renewable energy markets. He coined the term "Green Trading“.

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