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Past 2009 Carbon Finance Events

American Farmers and the Emerging Markets for Carbon Offsets in the U.S. and Canada

When:
October 22, 2008 | 5:00 – 7:30PM
Where:
Luce Hall at 34 Hillhouse Avenue (a reception to follow)
Cost:
Free and open to the public
Organizer:
Center for Business and the Environment at Yale

Through C-Lock Technology and Carbon Credit Corp, farmers and ranchers can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and store carbon in their soil by improving crop management practices, for example, from conventional tillage to reduced or zero-tillage.

This presentation will look at the role of information technology and agribusiness in providing management-based solutions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through better practices to store organic carbon in soils.

C-Lock Agriculture is a web-based carbon accounting and marketing tool. It allows agricultural producers to quantify the impact of specific land-use management practices for specific agricultural land parcels on the sequestration of carbon in soil and vegetation. It also aggregates carbon emission reduction offsets for individual land parcels into units that can be efficiently marketed. C-Lock Agriculture is looking beyond cropland carbon sequestration into forestry and rangeland quantification of carbon emission offset reductions.

Carbon Credit Corp designs "green" strategies for public companies allowing them to take best advantage of carbon credits and renewable technologies.  It has developed a program with Canada's largest agricultural services company to aggregate carbon credits generated from western Canadian farms.  The credits are generated through soil sequestration and beneficial land management practices.

Join Ted Venners and Shawn Burns for this discussion on bringing farmers into the carbon markets.

Ted Venners is Chairman of the Board for C-Lock Technology and founder of Evergreen Energy, Inc.  An entrepreneur, he formed his own real estate investment company after working as an assistant to the governor of South Dakota. President Reagan appointed him to the National Coal Council and he served as an advisor to the Heritage Foundation's Committee for Federal Coal Leasing.

Shawn Burns is President and CEO of Carbon Credit Corp.  While completing his MBA research project at Cornell University, Shawn studied how to monetize carbon credits alongside rural people in Brazil and Central America.  Over his career, Shawn has been involved in sustainable development in over 25 nations in Africa, Central America, and Asia.

October 22, 2008
5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Luce Hall
Reception to follow
 

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This event is organized in collaboration with the Connecticut chapters of the Trust for Public Land and The Nature Conservancy. CEU Credits will be granted by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (Division of Forestry)- click here for a Certificate of Attendance form.

 

Funding for the Carbon Finance Speaker Series was made possible by a generous grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and the Henry P. Kendall Foundation.
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