Dear ONE-L colleagues:
We can offer a 50% reduction off the Conference Board corporate member price to participants from academic institutions: $125. See webcast description below. If you are interested, please email myself:
Dinah.koehler@conference-board.org and Pam Dye:
pam.dye@conference-board.org.
You will need to provide us directly with your name.
Dinah Koehler, Sc.D.
Senior Research Associate
Center for Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability
The Conference Board
845 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Tel: 212 339-0406
Fax: 212 836-3822
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From: Koehler, Dinah
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 7:55 PM
To: Organizations and the Natural Environment Discussion
Subject: RE: EPA Proposed Greenhouse Gas Registry
Dear Colleagues - Here's information on a webcast we are hosting later this month, hoping to attract a broad corporate audience and financial analysts - happy to have academics also! THe question of facility/parent company is critical and something I have been working on for some time in the context of making EPA information more user friendly for the financial services industry in connection with the NY Society for Security Analysts. This issue ALWAYS comes up. EPA response has thus far been lackluster, though the number of people convinced that this needs to happen is growing. We've been able to gain some good allies. If EPA hears from another stakeholder group that this is critical, we hope it will stoke the fire under their feet to move on this. Perhaps in the context of a major new EPA database we can push this important agenda forward. In a recent phonecall with EPA it became clear to me that the folks (primarily in the Office of Air) who are fronting the GHG reporting rule effort have little idea of the desire to have corporate level information. You can comment via the Federal Register! So please do your part to get this solidly on the agenda.
Dinah Koehler
Conference Board
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PREPARING FOR MANDATORY GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING IN THE U.S.
A Dialogue with the Environmental Protection Agency
Webcast Hosted by The Conference Board
Date: April 29, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Panelist: William N. Irving, Chief of the Program Integration Branch. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Climate Change Division. This EPA branch is responsible for preparing the annual Inventory of GHG Emissions & Sinks (submitted to the UN), analyzing climate legislation, supporting domestic and international climate policy development, and coordinating the EPA's mandatory rulemaking for greenhouse gases. Mr. Irving is an elected member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Task Force Bureau for GHG Inventories.
Moderator: Dinah A. Koehler, Sc.D., Senior Research Associate, The Conference Board
Government regulation of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) in the U.S. is on its way. Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its proposed GHG Reporting Rule, which would require manufacturers, utilities, fuel suppliers and vehicle manufacturers to report their total annual GHG emissions starting in 2010.The rule covers up to 90% of GHG emissions sources in the U.S. In addition, the data generated by the rule will instruct a variety of new climate change policies under federal consideration, including cap and trade, regulation of GHG emissions under the Clean Air Act and carbon fees. Given the significance of this policy shift for all business, The Conference Board is presenting a webcast dialogue with the EPA to discuss specific aspects of the rule, and its implications for business including how the data can be used.
This webcast will discuss:
Whether companies currently doing reporting under a voluntary reporting scheme (e.g. Carbon Disclosure Project) need to change how they collect data
How the rule addresses facility vs. company level reporting
Coordination between filing to the EPA and the SEC, especially to satisfy investor interest in GHG emissions data
How the data can help a company subject to a shareholder resolution on climate change or litigation
How to comment on the rule
Registration/Cost:
There are different fee levels for this webcast: Conference Board members $250; non-members $350; non-profit employees $175.
To register go to The Conference Board website (www.conference-board.org) and follow these links: about half way down the home page select Webcasts under Register Now!; then select the April 29 webcast, "Preparing for Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting in the U.S."