Thank you to everyone who made Shaping Your Carbon Choices a success.

Despite traffic-snarling snowstorms across the U.S, we welcomed on December 5th a wide range of participants from:
  • Electric power production and delivery
  • Energy including petroleum refining and products and hydrogen production
  • Equipment and services providers including geologic cavern management
  • Freight and parcel delivery
  • Printing and graphics
  • Foods
  • Lumber and forest products
  • Biofuels
  • Universities
  • Emissions trading
  • Financial institutions
  • Law firms
  • Government agencies
  • Consultant firms
  • Embassies
  • Automobile manufacturing
  • Textiles

Program and Presentations
The presentations from Wednesday, December 5th, are now available: just click on the link following the presenter's name in the listing below. (Please note that not all presenters provided presentations.)

Tuesday, December 4th
At the Omni Shoreham Hotel
6 - 7:30 pm
Bird Cage Walk 		Welcome Reception and Registration
Wednesday, December 5th
At the Omni Shoreham Hotel
7:30 am
Palladian Foyer		 Registration
7:30 am
Palladian Ballroom 		Continental Breakfast
8:30 am Palladian Ballroom

Opening Remarks and Program Introduction

  • Mr. Jeff Serfass - President, Technology Transition Corporation [bio]

  • Mr. Jerome Hinkle - Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs, Technology Transition Corporation
    [Download Presentation - 88Kb PDF]
8:40 am
Palladian Ballroom		 The Business Challenge
A panel of experts present their views on the beginning of a new business paradigm.

Moderated by Mr. Jerome Hinkle - Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs, Technology Transition Corporation [bio]


Panelists include:
  • Dr. Robert Shaw - President, Aretê Corporation, and Manager, Micro-Generation Technology Fund [bio]
    [Download Presentation - 1,189Kb PDF]

  • Dr. William M. Ferretti - Vice President, Chicago Climate Exchange [bio]

Topics include:

  • Greenhouse gas (GHG) management
  • Capital investment: New technologies, techniques, and data
  • Expanding your understanding of how businesses operate
  • Growing shareholder value
  • Creating new decisional tools
  • Managing yet more complexity
Palladian Ballroom Keynote
Representative Jay Inslee (D-WA) is a senior member of three key committees in the U.S. House of Representatives related to carbon management:

  • Energy Independence and Global Warming
  • Energy and Commerce
  • Natural Resources

Congressman Inslee will discuss his view of new energy and climate legislation and how debates may shape the outcome. He will also discuss how carbon management can be integrated into business planning, while taking into account national and regional political realities.

9:55 am
Palladian Ballroom		 Creating a Pathway
Exploring the themes of leadership and early action, senior managers of several pioneering companies in different markets describe how they formed their original vision for cutting GHGs, developed the management techniques for action and realized substantial gains in both profitability and emissions reductions.

Panelists include:

Topics include:

  • Choosing strategic goals
  • Defining a clear mission and measurable performance criteria
  • Deciding which corporate units to evaluate
  • Establishing baseline inventories, energy and economic flows
  • Before it can be explained, it needs to be described
  • Examining the benefits of GHG reduction and realizing the opportunities
  • Making clear investment choices
  • Evaluating the success of your GHG reduction strategies
  • The curse of leadership: Does too much early action leave less room for future compliance?
11 - 11:30 am
Palladian Foyer 		Networking Refreshment Break - Sponsored by Alliance Technical Services
11:30 am
Palladian Ballroom		 Methods and Techniques: Finding the Right Planning Tools
A variety of approaches to quantifying GHG and energy footprints are discussed, from voluntary to pre-regulatory methods. Establishing baselines and inventories are critical to understanding what work to do and the potential for profitable gains. The flows of energy and GHGs through our operations and value webs need to be clearly quantified before realistic strategic goals can be clarified and a management approach designed. Rigorous evaluations of the results are essential to creating credit and offset value in evolving GHG secondary markets.

Panelists include:

  • Mr. William R. Prindle - Deputy Director, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy [bio]
    [Download Presentation - 460Kb PDF]

  • Mr. Brian Murphy - Senior Manager, Carbon Management & Sustainable Strategies, Pace Global Energy Services [bio]

  • Dr. William M. Ferretti - Vice President, Chicago Climate Exchange [bio]

  • Mr. Thomas J. Timbario, P.E. - Vice President, Alliance Technical Services, Inc. [bio]
    [Download Presentation - 1,906Kb PDF]

  • Ms. Kathleen Hogan - Director, Climate Partnerships Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
    [Download Presentation - 1,686Kb PDF]
Topics include:
  • Defining your baselines, operations and processes
  • Measuring your energy and resource flows
  • Characterizing energy efficiency options
  • How businesses of different sizes from different industries develop unique GHG tools
  • Federal Executive Order 13423: Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management
  • Dept. of Energy’s Climate VISION
  • California Climate Action Registry
12:45 pm
Diplomat Ballroom

Networking Lunch
1:45 pm
Palladian Ballroom

Technologies: Creating Alternatives and Making Choices
A broadly based panel of technology firms and developers, utilities, service companies and venture capital managers tackles a range of issues surrounding how both available and future technologies affect business planning and decisional frameworks. Both tactical and strategic solutions will be discussed.

Panelists include:

Topics include:

  • What should we be doing now?
  • How to productively deal with existing fleets and infrastructure
  • What opportunities exist for the fuel cycles we depend on?
  • Not everything is over the horizon, and “the technology isn’t here yet” gives away your power to act
  • Help make some of the rules
  • The ideas that drove yesterday’s choices may be scrap tomorrow—how do we adapt to a near term future?
  • Instrumentation, measurement and maintenance: Validating GHG projects and offsets
  • Using equipment that works—“impedance matching” strategies, technologies and economics
3:15 pm
Palladian Foyer 		Networking Refreshment Break
3:45 pm
Palladian Ballroom		 State, Regional and Federal Initiatives
A diverse panel of senior analysts and regional and Congressional staff review a wide range of GHG initiatives, including the Northeast US Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), California’s aggressive programs and several key proposals introduced in the 110th Congress. Summary comparisons highlight their principal features, which may have different implications for different fuel cycles and feedstocks. Additionally, the shape of the current energy tax legislation from the House and Senate could have a substantial influence on the extent and pace of how the near term markets for technical solutions could emerge. Although market effects will appear well into the future, higher risk cooperative government/industry R&D will likely yield attractive alternatives.

Panelists include:

  • Mr. Peter Rohde - Senior Editor, Carbon News and Energy Washington
    [Download Presentation - 7,233Kb PDF]

  • Mr. Brian Murphy - Senior Manager, Carbon Management & Sustainable Strategies, Pace Global Energy Services [bio]

  • Mr. Jerome Hinkle - Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs, Technology Transition Corporation [bio]
Topics include:
  • RGGI, California GHG programs: Vision and process
  • Comparison of key proposals in the 110th Congress
  • The evolving policy quilt—decorative or purposeful?
  • Tax incentives: Where will they converge on near-term technical solutions? How effective and strong are they?
  • What is missing from current initiatives?
5 pm
Palladian Ballroom		 Town Hall Meeting
This town hall meeting will synthesize the different perspectives of each panel session into the larger issue of carbon management. Short summaries will be presented to engage the audience in a debate on the challenges of business in a carbon-constrained world. Questions and statements from the audience are highly encouraged.

Moderated by Mr. Jeff Serfass - President, Technology Transition Corporation [bio]
6 pm
Palladian Ballroom		 Closing Remarks
Including schedule for tomorrow’s Carbon Management Council meeting (open to all)
Thursday, December 6th
At Technology Transition Corporation
8:15 am - 12:45 pm
TTC Offices 		Carbon Management Council: organizational meeting
At the offices of Technology Transition Corporation
1211 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
202-457-0868
[directions]
8:15 am Continental breakfast
8:45 am

Review of agenda and meeting plan

  • Develop Mission and initial activities
  • Determination of stakeholders
  • Create initial governance and technical support
9 am

Feedback on Conference

  • Messages heard
  • Needs expressed
9:30 am

Mission and Vision Review

  • Name
10 am Initial Goals (facilitated discussion, listing and voting)
11 am

Initial Governance

  • Board of Directors
  • Advisory Committee
  • Committees
  • Officers
11:45 am

Support

  • Appointment of Attorney
  • Management and Technical Services Agreement with TTC
12:15 pm Next Steps
12:45 pm Adjourn - lunch served
1:30 - 4:30 pm Carbon Management Council: Board of Directors meeting
1:30 pm

Review Agenda and meeting plan

  • Make essential decisions to form and begin work
1:45 pm

Articles of Incorporation

  • Statement of purpose
  • Type of tax exempt organization
  • Initial incorporators
  • Initial Board of Directors
  • Structure of membership
2:15 pm

Appointment of attorney and staff support

  • Basic terms of TTC agreement and start-up costs
2:45 pm Initial Activities and Budget
3:45 pm 2008 Dues
4:15 pm Next steps