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Climate Focus regularly participates in carbon market events around the globe. View our recent contributions or see where you can meet us at one of the upcoming events.

April 03 - Climate Change: Science, Impacts & Responses course at Imperial College London
Dr. Charlotte Streck participates in a programme to provide professionals, particularly in government and industry, with an in-depth understanding of the issues surrounding climate change. The programme is being held on 14 – 18 April. Charlotte will give a presentation on Legal and political principles of the Kyoto Mechanisms.
Please visit website for Programme details

1-2 April 2008 - The Forests Dialogue (TFD) at the World Resources Institute
Climate Focus will participate in the first of a series of dialogues organized by TFD throughout 2008. The purpose of these dialogues is to raise stakeholder awareness and understanding, and identifying potential roles of different actors for the comprehensive treatment of forests within international climate policy negotiations. This dialogue pertains to identify current perspectives and tensions within the forest community with regards to issues surrounding forests and climate, and opportunities for stakeholder agreement and mechanisms to resolve such tensions.
Download Agenda (58k PDF) and Concept Paper (102k PDF)

05 March 2008 - Climate Focus at Carbon Market Insights 2008
Climate Focus is invited to give a presentation during Point Carbon’s Carbon Market Insights 2008 Conference on 11 and 12 March. Charlotte Streck will give a presentation during the session on “New Sources for Supply 2012?”
Download Conference Schedule (902k PDF)

9 February 2008 - Strengthening Forestry Activities in Argentina
On February 19 and 20 Dr. Charlotte Streck will make a presentation about Market and Financial issues for LULUCF projects in a workshop to strengthen and promote CDM forestry activities in Argentina.
Download Final agenda of the workshop

05 February 2008 - Perspectives for forests in the post-Kyoto arrangements
Dr. Charlotte Streck, from Climate Focus, participated as a lecturer in a conference titled "Perspectives for forests in the post-Kyoto arrangements" celebrated in the Centre AgroParisTech (ENGREF) in Nancy on 5 February 2008. The objective of this conference is to introduce the students to forest-carbon projects and the prospects of these projects in the carbon market, based on practical examples and case studies.

10 January 2008 - Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, UK
Dr. Charlotte Streck will give the first Lecture in a series titled “Blowing in the Wind: Current Issues in Law, Environment and Development.” This series is hosted by the Law, Environment and Development Centre of the School of Oriental and African Studies, in collaboration with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Charlotte’s lecture is about international policy solutions and incentives to avoid deforestation and promote sustainable forest management with the objective of combating climate change.
Download event flyer (49k PDF)

3 - 14 December 2007 - United Nations Climate Change Conference, Bali, Indonesia
Climate Focus is participating in the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali from the 3rd to the 14th of December. Furthermore Climate Focus, along with The Global Public Policy Institute, and Avoided Deforestation Partners hosted a side event on private sector participation in REDD held on Thursday 6 December. This side event draws on lessons learned from the existing trading mechanisms, practical experience, and financial analysis to identify and discuss issues that need to be addressed to develop REDD policy that will work in practice.
Download REDD side event agenda (207k PDF) (visit website)
Download IISD Coverage of the event (1032k PDF) (visit website)
Download Side Event Presentation from Charlotte Streck (138k PDF)
Download Side Event Presentation from Robert O’Sullivan (107k PDF)
Download Side Event Presentation from Johannes Ebeling (1038k PDF)
Download Side Event Presentation from Jeff Horowitz (1625k PDF)
Download Side Event Presentation from Marisa Meizlish (1591k PDF)
Download Side Event Presentation from Bernhard Schlamadinger (254k PDF)

8 December 2007 - Forest Day at COP13, Bali, Indonesia
On Saturday December 8 during COP13, Charlotte Streck from Climate Focus participated as a speaker in a side event hosted by IUCN, Ecosecurities and Faktor AG. The side event looked at various approaches that value the additional social and environmental benefits of carbon forestry projects. Dr. Streck gave a presentation on the Carbon Conservation Mechanism. The CCM has been proposed as a trading mechanism to value the carbon stored in standing, highly valuable forest ecosystems and promote private sector financing of forest conservation. The approach is based on the recognition that carbon stored in forests provides valuable climate, ecosystem and biodiversity conservation services.
Download IUCN side event agenda (29k PDF)

7 December 2007 – Side Event at COP13, Bali, Indonesia
Law & Governance of Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation
On Friday December 7 during COP13, Charlotte Streck from Climate Focus chaired a side event hosted by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law that featured the international release of the CISDL “Sustainable Development Law on Climate Change” Legal Working Paper Series.

6 November 2007 - FELABAN Annual Assembly, Miami, USA
Charlotte Streck presented the CERSPA at a session hosted by the IIC entitled "Banks and Climate Change, Mainstreaming Carbon Finance in Latin America." She highlighted how the template can support project developers and financial institutions in Latin America. The FELABAN Annual Assembly is the largest gathering of senior Latin American bankers outside the IMF and IDB meetings. During the Assembly Charlotte Streck was interviewed by Business News Americas about how the carbon market in Latin America remains untapped.
Download the presentation in English and Spanish (27kb) (visit website)
Download the interview in English and Spanish (60kb)

24-25 October 2007 - REDD Workshop, Brussels, Belgium
Climate Focus, CATIE, and Avoided Deforestation Partners hosted a dialogue on mechanisms to reduce emissions from deforestation (RED) in developing countries. The event was very successful and attracted over 70 attendees from Governments, the private sector, and non-profit organizations. One of the objectives of the event was to initiate a dialogue between governments and the private sector on RED policy given the acknowledged need for private sector financing to effectively address the problem of tropical deforestation.  
(view RED Workshop page) (view Forestry page)

Voluntary Carbonmarkets - Unlocking the True Market Potential
16-17 October 2007, ICO Conference Centre, London
Join 30+ voluntary carbon market makers including Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Natsource, Climate Focus, The Climate Group and ECX at the first international VCM networking congress and gain an in-depth understanding of how the voluntary markets function. Charlotte Streck is one of the distinguished speakers whom will debate whether the voluntary market will help shape the compliance market by providing ways that currently are not explored or possible in the compliance market
Download the agenda (184k PDF) (visit website)

Discussion Meeting: Carbon Markets and Forest Governance
10th September 2007, Chatham House, London, UK
Robert O'Sullivan spoke on risks and governance issues in different policy approaches to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries.
(visit website)

Crucial Issues in Climate Change and the Kyoto Mechanisms in Asia
30-31 August 2007, National University of Singapore, Singapore
The conference will address legal issues around climate change law and policy in Asia. Charlotte Streck has been invited to give a course on the Kyoto flexible mechanisms at Singapore University and give a presentation on CDM governance.

Klimaatnamiddag VMD
20 June 2007, Brussels, Belgium
The Belgian association for environmental specialists organises a workshop on CDM and JI. Adriaan Korthuis elaborates on JI developments and opportunities.
Download the agenda (89k PDF)

Congress “Emissiehandel in een veranderend klimaat”
15 May 2007, Hotel en Congrescentrum ‘De reehorst’, Ede, Netherlands
This congress was organized by the Dutch Emission Authority (NEa) and was aimed at informing businesses about recent and future policy developments in the areas of NOx- and CO2- emission trading. Jelmer Hoogzaad contributed to a session on use of CERs and ERUs in the ETS.
download presentation (1.48mb PDF) visit Website

CERSPA Launch
03 May 2007, Dorint Hotel, Cologne, Germany
At the occasion of Carbon Expo 2007, the CER Sale and Purchase Agreement (“CERSPA”) template and accompanying explanatory document will be launched at the Dorint Hotel in Cologne. The template and guidance document has been developed by a group of over 20 CDM lawyers, most of which come from developing countries, and is sponsored by the Inter-American Investment Corporation.
Visit the website

Carbon Expo - Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference
2-4 May 2007, Cologne, Germany
Carbon Expo 2007 will once again act as the international platform for companies operating on the global CO2 market.  The 3-day conference will cover such things as up-to-date awareness of local and global regulations and how to address the resulting risks and opportunities. 
Download the agenda (852k PDF) Visit the website

Tackling Climate Change
30-31 March 2007, The Hague, The Netherlands
Organised by the T.M.C Asser Instituut, the conference looks at the legal and institutional aspects related to the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol with a look at the post-2012 phase. Climate Focus will present on legal issues related to the CDM.
Download the agenda (112k PDF)

University of Twente Short Course: Formulating Proposals for CDM Projects
21 March 2007, Twente University, The Netherlands
Robert O'Sullivan gave a lecture on legal aspects of the CDM including structuring CDM projects and carbon contracts.
Download Presentation (259k PDF)

CDM Tech 2007
19-21 March 2007, Cartagena, Colombia
Three day conference on CDM Markets and Technology Transfer, Latin America 2007. Charlotte Streck will speak on the key legal issues in CDM transactions.
Download the agenda (488k PDF) | Conference Web Site
Presentation (Espanol) Presentation (English)

Climate Change Investment and Finance 2007
20-21 March 2007, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Two day conference by DowJones and 3C. Adriaan Korthuis will present an overview of the CDM and JI markets on 21 March.
Conference Brochure (488k PDF) | Conference Web Site

Carbon Market Insights 2007
13-14 March 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark
Climate Focus will make its expertise available at a Q&A session at the Point Carbon annual conference.
Conference Programme (1.1mb PDF) | Conference Web Site

Cap and Trade as Tools of C limate Change Policy
22-23 February, 2007, Berkeley, USA
Organised by the University of California Berkeley in conjunction with the American Society for International Law. Climate Focus presented on the design and implementation of cap and trade programs for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a tool for climate change policy at the state, regional, national and international levels.
Conference Web site

JI Workshop
13-14 February 2007, Bonn, Germany
On 14 February Charlotte Streck spoke on advantages and disadvantages of JI Track 1.

Coalition for Rainforest Nations Workshop
28-30 January 2007, San Jose, Costa Rica
Robert O’Sullivan attended as the technical advisor to Vanuatu and gave a presentation on the Vanuatu Forests project.

Linking Schemes: Potential Impacts of Linking the European Union Emissions Trading System with Emerging Carbon Markets in other Countries
29-30 May 2006, Brussels, Belgium
Charlotte Streck spoke on the inclusion of forestry-related credits.
Download presentation (4.2mb PDF)

University of Twente Short Course: Formulating Proposals for CDM Projects
23 May 2006, Twente, Netherlands
Robert O’Sullivan gave a lecture on legal and contract aspects of CDM projects.
Download the presentation (2mb PDF)

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries: Joanneum Workshop
10-12 May 2006, Bad Blumau, Austria
Robert O’Sullivan gave a presentation on the Carbon Stock Approach to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, 14th Session
1-12 May 2006, New York, USA
On 4 May Robert O’Sullivan and Sébastien Jodoin, Associate Fellow at CISDL, gave a presentation on sustainable development law and climate change.

Technical Workshop on the Role of Forests in the Carbon Market, Focusing on the EU ETS
29 March 2006, Brussels, Belgium
Climate Focus proposed an amendment of the European Emissions Trading Directive to allow for the use of credits from forestry projects in the emissions trading system.
Download the presentation (652k PDF)

Vattenfall Report
28 March 2006, Brussels, Belgium
Climate Focus participates in the presentation of Vattenfall’s recent report: "Curbing Climate Change and the outline of a framework leading to a low carbon emitting society."

JI Workshop
9-10 March 2006, Bonn, Germany
UNFCCC Technical Workshop on Joint Implementation. Adriaan Korthuis presented on 10 March.
Download the presentation (624k PDF)

Workshop: CDM and JI – Chances for German Technology
9 March 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Robert O’Sullivan spoke on legal issues in CDM and JI transactions.
Download the presentation (1.5mb PDF)

Brodies Lecture
1 March 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland
Charlotte Streck presented the Brodies lecture at the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh in association with Brodies LLP on the subject “The EU as climate change leader? The EU emissions trading scheme.”
Download the presentation (148k PDF) | Download the paper (124 PDF)

Carbon Market Insights 2006
28 February - 2 March, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark
Adriaan Korthuis presented on 1 March.
Download the presentation (656k PDF)

The EU Emissions Trading Scheme – One Year On
8 February 2006, Leuven, Belgium
Seminar hosted by KU Leuven, Institute for International Law and the Intitute for Transnational Research of the Maastricht University. Charlotte Streck spoke on CDM and JI in practice.

UNECE Ad Hoc Group of Experts on Coal Mine Methane
31 January - 1 February, 2006, Geneva Switzerland
Jelmer Hoogzaad presented on 1 February.

BORDA International Workshop: Boosting basic needs services in Africa
12-13 December 2005, Bremen, Germany
Robert O’Sullivan presented on carbon finance opportunities for small scale projects.
Download the presentation (1mb PDF)

Strengthening Climate Cooperation, Compliance & Coherence
2-3 December 2005, Montreal, Canada
Cosponsored and organised by Climate Focus.