A Workshop on

Environmental Credits Generated Through Land-Use Changes:

Challenges and Approaches

March 8-9, 2006 -- Baltimore, Maryland

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Final Agenda

Wednesday, March 8
Overview and Introduction

8:45 Introduction to conference

9:00 Overview of trading and the challenges of land-based credits (Woodward & McCarl, Slides)

9:45 The state of trading - water quality Trading (10 min. for dicussion) (Mark Kieser, Slides)

10:45 The state of trading - carbon markets (10 min. for dicussion) (Zach Willey, Slides)

Quantification and units

1:00 Challenge # 1: Baselines and additionality (Woodward, Slides)
WQ: Claire Schary, EPA region 10 (Slides)
GHG: Michael Ashford, The Climate Trust (Slides)
1:45 Q&A

2:00 Challenge # 2: Leakage and permanence (McCarl, Slides)
WQ:Jim Klang - Minn. Pollution Control Agency (Slides)
GHG:Brian Murray, Nicholas Institute (Duke U.) and RTI (Slides)
2:45 Q&A

3:15 Challenge # 3: Measurement and quantity uncertainty (McCarl, Slides)
GHG: Sandra Brown, Winrock International (Slides)
WQ: Eric Strecker, GeoSyntec Consultants (Slides)
4:00 Q&A

4:15 Challenge # 4: Monitoring and verification (Woodward, Slides)
WQ:
Dennis King, U. Maryland (Slides)
GHG: Gordon Smith &
Wiley Barbour, Environmental Resources Trust, Inc. (Slides)
5:00 Q&A

Thursday, March 9
Market Challenges

8:30 Challenge # 5: Transaction costs (Woodward, Slides)
WQ: Dusty Hall - Miami Conservancy District- Ohio (Slides)
GHG: Ken Andrasko, USEPA (Slides)
9:15 Q&A

9:30 Challenge #6: Aggregation (McCarl, Slides)
GHG: Duane Tonges, AgCert USA (Slides)
WQ: Dennis O'Grady, South Nation Conservation, Canada (Slides)
10:15 Q&A

Conclusions and discussions

10:45 Directed discussion and Q&A (Led by members of planning team with participation of speakers and workshop participants)

12:00 Closing remarks

 

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