Past 2009 Carbon Finance Events

Laurie Wayburn is the president of the California-based Pacific Forest Trust, which she cofounded with Constance Best in 1993. Laurie has forestry and sustainable development experience both in the United States and internationally.

Along with Ms Best, she wrote and published America’s Private Forests: Status and Stewardship in 2001. In this Leadership Interview, Ms Wayburn talks about the Pacific Forest Trust from its founding on, her work in forest certification schemes development, and how TIMOs and REITs relate to conservation. In the second part of the interview, she extensively discusses carbon forestry and climate change, and her involvement in recent California climate change pilot projects. In reference to America’s Private Forests, she relates the ideas expressed in 2001 to the present and the developing U.S. Endowment for Forests & Communities. Finally, she comments on her receipt of the 2007 Leadership Award at the Forest Leadership Conference in May.

The Pacific Forest Trust is the only organization solely dedicated to conserving America's working forests for all their public benefits - wood, water, wildlife and a well-balanced climate. PFT strives to keep these vast and vital forests working by pursuing a comprehensive strategy to Retain, Sustain and Gain.

Laurie Wayburn will focus her remarks on state and federal policy on forest carbon.

Recommended Readings

• Publications - Pacific Forest Trust

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.

 

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.