Navigating the American Carbon World (NACW)- The Largest Carbon Conference in North America comes to Los Angeles April 13 - 15

Navigating the American Carbon World (NACW) will deliver the most comprehensive and current information on climate change policies and programs, including California’s landmark clean energy and climate change law AB 32 and the development of the Western Climate Initiative (WCI).

NACW is jointly hosted by the Climate Action Reserve and Point Carbon, a Thomson Reuters company, and will take place April 13-15, 2011 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. The conference program reflects how, even without broad international or national agreements, it is still an exciting time for climate change policy in California and the West.
Experts from government, business, academia and environment will discuss carbon markets, climate change policy and innovative strategies at premier carbon event.

Speakers include:

Linda Adams, Secretary, California Environmental Protection Agency
Karen Ross, Secretary, California Department of Food and Agriculture
Mary Nichols, Chair, California Air Resources Board (invited)
James Goldstene, Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board
Tim Lesuik, Chair, WCI Offsets Committee and Executive Director Climate Change Policy, Climate Action Secretariat, British Columbia Ministry of Environment
Terry Tamminen, CEO, Seventh Generation Advisors


For more information :

Please visit www.nacw2011.org.

New opportunities for livestock operations to gain financial benefits from reducing their GHG emissions

The Climate Action Reserve, North America’s largest carbon offset registry, released version 3.0 of the Livestock Project Protocol, providing updated guidelines for livestock operations to participate in the carbon market. Significant amounts of methane, which is over 21 times more potent to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, can be produced at livestock operations. With the updated livestock protocol, operations have more opportunities to reduce their methane emissions and earn offset credits that can be sold in the carbon market.

The Livestock Project Protocol ensures the integrity and long-term environmental benefit of installing manure biogas control systems at livestock operations, including dairy cattle and swine farms. With this protocol, operations that capture and destroy methane from livestock manure before it is released into the atmosphere receive carbon offset credits that can be traded in the carb
on market

The Climate Action Reserve is a private nonprofit organization representing international interests in addressing climate change and bringing together participants from the government, environment and business sectors.

http://www.climateactionreserve.org./