Forest Carbon Offsets Workshop: A Viable Market Opportunity For Timberlands Owners
Location: Sheraton Portland Airport - Portland, OR
8:15 Welcome
8:30 Carbon Trading: Markets, Drivers, Business Climate and California Cap and Trade Program – Arjun Patney, American Carbon Registry, Arlington, VA
9:15 How Does the California Air Resources Board Compliance Offset Protocol Work and Is It the Right Fit for my Business? Steps in the ARB Process And Strategic Considerations in developing a Carbon Project – Dylan Jenkins, Finite Carbon, Wayne, PA
10:15 Break
10:45 Designing and Implementing a Forest Carbon Inventory – Dave Walters, LandVest, Eugene, OR
11:30 Selling Offsets: How the Market Operates and the Various Products for Sale – Patrick Pfeifer, Statkraft, San Francisco, CA
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Maintaining Compliance With a Carbon Plan: What are you Signing Up for and What do You Have to do to Prove It? – Jim Clark, North Coast Resource Management, Ukiah, CA
1:30 Preparing for Verification Success – Zane Haxtema, SCS Global Services
1:50 Break
2:10 Risk Management 101: Managing Risk Across the Carbon Value Chain – Erika Anderson, Anderson Law Firm, Berkeley, CA
3:00 Landowner Case Histories: Presentations covering their first-hand experience from putting a carbon project on their property, evaluating feasibility, and building an inventory to verification, selling offsets and living with the plan. – Kaarsten Turner Dalby, The Forestland Group
4:00 Adjourn
The conference will be held at the Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel, Portland, OR. The Sheraton is located at 8235 NE Airport Way, adjacent to the Portland airport. The Sheraton can be viewed at: sheratonportlandairport.com.