Description:

Over 400 people packed the sell out event at The Times Center and spent two days learning about the latest developments in green trading. Speakers from investment banking, hedge funds, venture capital, insurance, and the brokerage community will present on the trading opportunities in alternative energy, project finance, carbon market developments, REC trading and demand response programs.

Conference highlights included:

7:00 AM Registration and Breakfast

8:00 AM Welcoming Remarks Peter Fusaro, Chairman, Global Change Associates, and Lisa Vioni, President, Hedge Connection

8:05 AM Setting the Green Trading Stage for 2008 Peter C. Fusaro, Chairman, Global Change Associates Inc.

8:30 AM Leading Insights into the New Terrain in DC on Carbon

9:00 AM Sponsor Address

10:00 AM Sponsor Break

10:30 AM Carbon Markets & Finance Panel I

Insights on EU ETS

Carbon Fund Opportunities

A View from Houston: What's Hot in Texas

A View California: Insights Into AB 32

12:00 PM Carbon Banking Panel

Moderator: Peter Fusaro, Chairman, Global Change Associates

1:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM Panel: What's Hot in Renewable Energy Trading

REC Market Overview & Outlook for 2008

Renewable Project Finance Credit Generation

Biofuels Trading

3:00 PM Panel: REC Market Issues That Need to Be Resolved

Integration Issues with Voluntary Rec Markets

How to Monetize REC Credits for Markets

Integrating Carbon and Renewables

Sponsor Break

4:00 PM The Next Nexus: Cleantech & Emissions Trading

The Cleantech Investment Landscape Panel

Linking Carbon and Cleantech

Latest Drivers in the Cleantech Investment

Why Second Stage Investing is a Viable Strategy

What are Big Strategies Watching for in Cleantech

5:30 PM Reception

Thursday April 2, 2009

8:00 AM Breakfast

8:30 AM Panel: Building Blocks for Green Trading Market Liquidity

Carbon & Cleantech Indices

Green PIPES

Capturing the Carbon: The Latest Developments in Carbon Capture & Storage

Three Paradoxes of Carbon Markets & What You Can Do About Them

Weather Risk Management & Climate Change

Creating a Forestry Fund to Reduce Carbon

Environmental Software Solutions Panel

Open Source Carbon Solutions

Building Financial Indices, Portfolios & ETFs using Triple Bottom Line Metrics

The Mobile Emission Reduction Credit (MERC) Opportunity

Enterprise Wide Carbon Risk Management

10:30 AM Sponsor Break

11:00 AM Panel on Advanced Carbon Finance

Sorting Out Renewables and Carbon Counting Issue

Compliance and Environmental Integrity in Emissions Markets

A New Brand Offering for Carbon Offsets

Green Project Design for CDM

Creating a Carbon Credit

1:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM The Green Efficiency Panel Market: Demand Response Arrives

The Link Between Carbon, Renewables and Efficiency

Demand Response: An Emerging Renewable and Greenhouse Gas Credit Trading

What's New on the Smart Grid

Trading White Tags

3:30 PM How Green Hedge Funds Execute Their Strategies

Water Markets & Funds Strategy

Carbon & Emissions Trading

Forestry Funds

Long/Short Cleantech and Renewables Fund

5:00 PM Program Ends