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Past 2009 Carbon Finance Events

Fast Company: Yale Idealists Slowing Global Warming through Forests

When:
April 29, 2009 | 5:00 – 7:30PM
Where:
Kroon Hall - Burke Auditorium (195 Prospect Street)
Cost:
Free and open to the public (reception to follow)
Organizer:
Center for Business and the Environment

In July of 2008, Fast Company's Anya Kamenetz wrote an article entitled "Can Carbon Credits Slow Global Warming". This article highlighted Yale's idealistic forestry grads leading the way.

Join a panel of Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies alumni. This panel will explore careers at all levels of a firm in the forest investment sector and the evolving role of forest carbon and ecosystem service markets and finance.

Michael Coren is a consultant with Climate Focus. As a specialist in carbon markets and forestry, Mr. Coren has experience in applying voluntary and compliance market standards, and financial and carbon modelling in tropical forests.

Marc Hiller is an Associate with International Forestry Investment Advisors. Mr. Hiller is responsible for developing discounted cash flow models and conducting economic analyses for long-term forestry investments in the United States and emerging markets.

Jason Patrick is a Vice President at Merrill Lynch Commodities. Mr. Patrick is responsible for the bank's carbon business in the America's. He originates, structures and commercializes carbon for Bank of America's commodities business and its clients.

Mark Wishnie is Managing Director of Equator, LLC. With experience in Latin America, Mr. Wishnie oversees the development and management of the company's timberland businesses, including the tecnical review and due diligence of investment opportunities and coordination of Equator's timberland acquisition and management services.

April 29, 2009
5:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Burke Auditorium (Kroon Hall at 195 Prospect Street)
Reception to follow

Recommended Readings

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

  • Managing Forests for Carbon Sequestration: Science, Business, Policy
  • Agroforestry Systems: Productivity, Environmental Services and Rural Development
  • The Economics of Environment and Sustainable Development
  • Strategies for Land Conservation
  • Institutions and the Environment
  • Law of Climate Change
  • Economics of Climate Change
  • Energy Issues in Developing Countries
  • Economics of Natural Resource Management
  • Environmental Law and Policy
  • Transportation and Urban Land Use Planning: Shaping the 21st Century City
  • Transportation, Energy and the Economy
  • Microfinance and Economic Development

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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.

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