Past 2009 Carbon Finance Events

This conversation will focus on the voluntary markets for forest carbon and highlight the lessons learned so that they can be applied to the emerging compliance markets for forest and land use carbon markets.

Professor Brad Gentry will be moderating this conversation with Katherine Hamilton, carbon project manager at Ecosystem Marketplace, and Edwin Aalders, Director of the International Emissions Trading Association (and former CEO of the Voluntary Carbon Standard).

Edwin Aalders has held the position of Director of the International Emission Trading Association since 2004 and the Acting CEO of the Voluntary Carbon Standard Association since 2007.  As Director of the International Emission Trading Association (IETA) Mr Aalders was responsible for the UNFCCC process such as the CDM & JI as well as the voluntary market.  Mr Aalders has acted as an elected member of JI Accreditation Panel and is currently on the roster of experts for the Methodology & Accreditation Panel Expert of the CDM. Â Edwin Aalders has an engineering degree in Tropical Forestry from the LIAC, the Netherlands and a Masters Degree in Forestry from the University of Oxford. 

Katherine Hamilton is the carbon project manager at Ecosystem Marketplace. Before joining Ecosystem Marketplace, she earned a masters degree at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she focused on corporate environmental management and wrote her thesis on the voluntary carbon market. Kate is an expert in the voluntary carbon markets and recently published Voluntary Carbon Markets: A Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work. Â Katherine completed a B.A. in International Relations at the University of Michigan in 2001.

Recommended Readings

• Forest Carbon Portal - from Ecosystem Marketplace
• Forest Trends - forest ecosystem services program;
• Forest Trends - improving livelihoods of forest communities program;
• Business and Biodiversity Offset Program (BBOP);
• VCS AFOLU - webpage; and
• IETA - what are carbon sinks.

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 (VCS and IETA), #2, #3, and #4 (Ecosystem Marketplace)

Event Photos - Coming Soon 

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.