Past 2009 Carbon Finance Events

This presentation and discussion will look at the role of forests in combatting climate change through carbon offsets in New England states, with a particular focus on Maine.

In September of 2008, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was launched in the Northeastern U.S.  This first-of-its-kind mandatory, market-based effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States has established a price on carbon.  RGGI's intent is to  to spur innovation in the clean energy economy and to create green jobs in participating states.

This conversation will include an overview of RGGI and what it means to forestry in Maine.  This event will explore the economic and environmental benefits to Maine for protecting and managing forests through RGGI offsets.  Environment Northeast and the Maine Forest Service will discuss sequestration offsets under RGGI including additionality, verifiability, and permanence with a response on methodologies by the Gold Standard.

Join Alec Giffen, Director of the Maine Forest Service, Ellen Hawes, Policy Analyst-Forestry for Environment Northeast, and Jasmine Hyman, Marketing Director of the Gold Standard.

Recommended Readings

• Recommendations to RGGI for Including New Forest Offset Categories - Maine Forest Service, Environment Northeast, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection
• RGGI Auction Design - Environment Northeast
• RGGI Offsets Summary - Environment Northeast
• Climate Change and Maine's Forests - A presentation by Environment Northeast
• Climate Change Roadmap for New England and Eastern Canada (read Chapter 3: Sequestration) - Environment Northeast
• Gold Standard Version 2 - Gold Standard

Course Recommendations - recommended fall coursework for Yale students interested in this field

• Financial Analysis for Land Management
• Management Plans for Protected Areas
• Local Environmental Law and Land Use Practice
• Private Investment and the Environment
• International Environmental Policy and Governance
• Natural Resources Law
• Property, Social Justice and the Environment
• Emerging Markets for Ecosystem Services
• Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Developing Countries

Event Documents

 

Netcast - Coming Soon

 

Transcription - Coming Soon

 

Presentation - #1 (Maine Forest Service), #2 (Environment Northeast) and #3 (Gold Standard)

Event Photos - #1, #2, and #3 

Event Poster

 

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.