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Past 2009 Carbon Finance Events

Bringing Security to Forestry Investors Worldwide: A View from ForestRe

When:
April 22, 2009 | 5:30 – 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 at Yale

Risk management for forestry investors in carbon and other ecosystem services from forests is the business of ForestRe. Join Phil Cottle of ForestRe in this Carbon Finance Speaker Series presentation.

Phil Cottle is Managing Director of ForestRe. With over 18 years' experience in forestry risk assessment for brokers, forest corporations, insurance syndicates in Lloyd's and continental reinsurers, Mr. Cottle is an innovator in establishing forestry insurance schemes and a regular speaker on global platforms on aspects of forest risks, explaining how insurance adds great value to the sector investment propositions of most companies. He has been an early mover in recognising and writing about the impacts of climate change on insurance and forest companies.

ForestRe, created in 2005, is unique in being the only global specialist forestry agency for the insurance and reinsurance for all types of forests and industrial tree plantations. ForestRe engineers the transfer of risk from investors to insurers that is associated with investments into forests; conventional wood fibre production, industrial tree crops and projects delivering ecosystem services such as forest carbon, water quality, and other benefits.

Mr. Cottle will focus his remarks on the challenges and opportunities in providing risk management products and services to manage forestry risk including carbon and other ecosystem services.

April 22, 2009
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Kroon Hall - Burke Auditorium (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

Event Documents

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Presentation - #1 and #2

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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.

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