Banking
under the New Rule is the theme. The estimated 450
attendees will learn how the New Rule issued by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year is
impacting mitigation and ecosystem banking across the nation.
The Conference is seeking presentations from experienced
mitigation and conservation bankers, regulators, users, engineers, investors,
environmental organizations, and others who have direct experience in the
expanding mitigation and ecosystem banking industry.Visit www.mitigationbankingconference.com
Past conferences with presentations
"Market-based strategies: are they
the answer for Water Quality?"
Oct. 19, 2006 - Richmond, VA.
Organized by the Virginia Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society. Link to presentations
ETN Training Workshop on Water Quality Trading
August 22-24, 2006. Cincinnati Marriott, Cincinnati OH.
Designed for stakeholders and state agencies in EPA Region 5 and the Ohio River
Basin. Presentations and speakers biographies have been posted.
Environmental Trading Congress-Strategies for
Succeeding in the Environmental Financial Markets
July
24- 25, 2006 - New York Helmsley, NYC
The congress,
organized by Financial Research Associates, LLC, was designed to serve as
practical forum facilitating a productive exchange between industry leaders
from the financial, agriculture, energy and utility markets.
U.S.
EPA/USDA 2nd National Water Quality Trading Conference
May 23-25, 2006, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The final agenda, including
speaker presentations,
has been posted. You can also read speaker biographies.
Making
the Priceless Valuable: Jumpstarting Environmental Markets June 7-9, 2006.
Portland, OR.
9th public meeting of the Katoomba Group.
The conference is the first regional expression of The Katoomba Group, an
international working group composed of leading experts from forest and energy
industries, research institutions, the financial world, and environmental NGOs,
all dedicated to facilitating strategic partnerships that can launch green
forest products in the marketplace. For more information, visit the Katoomba
group website.
9th National Mitigation & Conservation Banking Conference: Environmental Banking: Cultivating this green frontier. April 24-27, 2006 - Portland, OR.
Workshop on Environmental Credits Generated Through Land-Use Changes, March 8-9, 2006--Baltimore, Maryland. Presentation slides are now available.
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Mississippi
River Basin Nutrients Science Workshop
October 6, 2005 - St Louis, Missouri
Mark Kieser of Kieser & Associates presented a paper titled A Preliminary Analysis of Water Quality Trading Opportunities in the Great Miami River Watershed, A Preliminary Analysis of Water Quality Trading Opportunities in the Great Miami River Watershed, OH. at the first ever US EPA sponsored Mississippi River Basin Nutrients Science Workshop.
National
Forum on Synergies between Water Quality Trading and Wetland Mitigation Banking.
This forum, held in July 2005, aimed at advancing point/nonpoint source trading
by identifying ‘lessons learned’ from wetland mitigation banking, and at
exploring the potential role wetlands can play in providing water quality
credits as part of a watershed scale trading program. The final report is now
available. Conference program.
Eighth
National Mitigation & Conservation Banking Conference: Environmental
Banking and Beyond.
April 18-21,
2005 - Charlotte NC
This cutting-edge conference offered sessions on emerging markets (stream
mitigation, conservation banking, multi-credit banks, water quality trading,
agriculture), sessions on standards and sustainability, tracking progress, case
studies, sales & marketing and more. Field trips (urban & rural), a new
Banking Primer Workshop, the Regulators’ Forum facilitated by the Corps, the
Bankers’ Forum by NMBA, a Federal update, special guests, and the inside track
on what’s happening with the EEP in North Carolina were featured.For more
information, visit the conference
website or call (703) 548-5473.
Restore
Flow Regimes and Ecosystems in the Great Lakes Through Environmental Markets,
presented by Mark Kieser, Acting Chair of ETN.
OECD
- Agriculture and Water: Sustainability, Markets and Policies
November 14-18, 2005 - Adelaide, Australia
General conference information and all papers available at this link
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Seventh National Mitigation &
Conservation Banking Conference: Practice, Policy and New Emerging
Markets
New
Orleans, LA, March 3-5, 2004.
Water
Quality Trading: Restoration Methods at Banks to Enhance Water Quality Benefits,
presented by Mark Kieser, Acting Chair.
Urban Renaissance and Watershed Management Conference
Tokyo and Otsu, Japan, Jan. 28 - Feb. 3, 2004
Speakers:
Crystal Gandrud, Howard/Stein-Hudson Associates; "After the Boston Harbor
Project: Revitalizing the Waterfront".
Brice Le Canuu, Service Public 2000, France; "Public-private Partnership
in Municipal Water Services in France."
Eric Muller, Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, France;
"Organizational Structures, Costs and Fees."
Mark Kieser,
Environmental Trading Network- Paper
and presentation: "Economic
and Environmental Benefits of Water Quality Trading" .
International
Conference on Compliance and Enforcement of Trading Schemes in Environmental
Protection
16-18 March 2004, Oxford, England
Link to conference
documents
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Sixth
National Mitigation &
Conservation Banking Conference: Practice and Policy
San
Diego, CA, April 22-25, 2003
Ecosystem
Multiple Markets: the Next Generation of Ecological Restoration and Management,
presented by Mark Kieser.
US
EPA National Forum on Water Quality Trading
Chicago, Illinois - July 22 & 23, 2003
Website
with presentations
Forum feedback page
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Fifth
National Mitigation &
Conservation Banking Conference: Moving Towards Solutions
Terrene
Institute, Washington, DC, February 27 - March 1, 2002
Developing
Markets to Manage Ecosystems: Evolution of a National Trading Network, presented
by Mark Kieser.