This audio conference will:
- Provide a forest carbon primer and overview offsets and sequestration
- Define and discuss mandatory vs. voluntary carbon markets, including US impacts
- Briefly discuss evolving carbon offset standards
- Analyze the potential upside of sequestration/carbon market
- Evaluate carbon-based Matching Payments – Realistic or not?
- Evaluate potential federal/regional impacts of carbon trading on businesses
As global climate change policy and regulations aggressively evolve, sector participants are seeking to learn about carbon offsets and sequestration, in an effort to better understand their potential impact - for forest landowners and managers.
Policy, regulatory, environmental and industry players are moving quickly, to understand, and stay abreast of offset/sequestration market trends, policy, current and future markets. There are many questions – the answers to which can significantly impact your organization's strategic planning, sustainability, and management, relative to conservation, sustainability, revenue and sector growth opportunities.
Our speaker, a world renowned forestry and environmental expert, educator, and scientist, will share a historical overview, key insights, and analysis, of f orest offsets and sequestration. A gifted educator, our speaker will help you to learn about carbon, using easy to understand terminology; what it is, how it works, and the potential impacts on climate and industry over the next few years. So you can better understand evolving policy, regulation and markets, to best manage your organization, as climate policy, regulation and their impacts take shape.
Who should attend:
Biomass Fuel Producers
Utility Policy/Regulatory/Compliance Management
Renewable Energy Companies
Federal/State/Municipal Forestry Management/Planners/Policy Staff
Tribal Administrators, Council Members, Forestry Managers
TIMO’s
Forest Products Companies
Wood Brokers/Traders/Buyers
Executive Directors
Forest Landowners
Consulting Foresters
Forest Land Trust Staff/Management
Renewable Energy/Biomass/Forestry Lobbyists
Public Interest Environmental Professionals
Federal, State and Local Agency Environmental/Sustainability Staff
Environmental Educators and Specialists
Environmental and Process Engineers
Environmental Consultants and Attorneys
Governmental and Public Affairs Specialists
Speaker Biography:
Dr. Lloyd Irland is a highly respected, global leader in the science, business, and policy of forestry and the environment. A prolific writer, gifted educator and public speaker, Dr. Irland has written five books, and over 300 professional and technical articles, and serves as lecturer and senior scientist at
Dr. Irland is also CEO of The Irland Group, a leading forestry and environmental sector consulting firm that advises governments, global industry, trade, and environmental groups, on environmental, forestry, and business issues, trends, policy, regulation, and global trade.
Prior to Yale University Dr. Irland worked with the US Forest Service as a research economist, the State of Maine, Department of Conservation, and as Maine's Chief Economist.
Dr. Irland has delivered presentations and workshops to the Intertribal Timber Council, Southwest Sustainability Forestry Partnership, among many other organizations, as well as participating in this year's Global Climate Summit in
Dr. Irland received his Bachelor’s degree in forestry from
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