Presenters

William M. Jones, PhD, Global Consulting Services, EcoSecurities, Portland, OR

Joseph Pallant, Carbon Project Solutions, Vancouver, BC

Convener:

Johanna Brickman, ZGF Architects, Portland, OR

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That there are issues with the current carbon market is evidenced by the fact that the US Federal Trade Commission is rushing to evaluate the validity of carbon-neutrality claims made by US businesses. Providers of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and carbon offsets are rushing to help define the market before a cap and trade system is put in place. In BC, the government has both the compliance required by the Kyoto protocol, the goal of carbon neutrality by 2012, and the newly instituted Carbon Tax. How do all of these elements play together?

Where do these questions leave communities, building owners/occupants, and the design and construction industry? As organizations wrestle with how to legitimately balance out the negative impacts they have on the environment, they soon discover how complex a proposition that truly is.
 
In this session, experts in the production, regulation, marketing, and purchase of carbon offsets will help to describe the market and how they relate to the efforts of communities and buildings to achieve carbon neutrality in both Voluntary (US) and Compliance (Canada) markets. An interactive session will help to describe a variety of scenarios for implementation. 

Presenter Bios

William M. Jones, PhD
Bill Jones, Ph.D.: Principal Consultant, Global Consulting Services, EcoSecurities, Ltd., directs US consulting services (climate change policy assessment & program development; urban carbon management strategies; GHG inventories & emissions calculation; offset credit price forecast modeling; adaptation and mitigation opportunity & strategy identification, and private client positioning strategies to efficiently & cost effectively reduce their own climate change impact). Consultant with 25 years experience that ranges from developing leading edge, emergent Federal environmental policies (e.g., waste minimization/sustainable environmental practices, oil & gas environmental regulation), climate change policy impact analysis (California AB 32 & LCFS) to local urban carbon management and private client offset market positioning planning. Education: Ph.D. -- planning and economics (Columbia University); MUP – urban planning (University of Oregon).

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Joseph Pallant
Joseph Pallant, B.Sc., MBA, founded Carbon Project Solutions in 2006 to help companies develop and standardize carbon offset projects for voluntary and compliance markets. He has helped originate and develop projects under the Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism and authored ISO 14064-2 Validated project methodologies. His current focus includes assisting companies to set up their interaction with the carbon market, and designing the recently announced Globe Carbon Registry.

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Johanna Brickman
Johanna Brickman is responsible for the development and implementation of ZGF's firmwide sustainable design team effort. Since joining ZGF in 2000, Johanna's role has been researching and facilitating the design of efficient and healthy buildings through the innovative use of materials, technology, and design techniques. She is an in-house sustainable design resource to project teams in all ZGF offices, leading EcoCharrettes, coordinating LEED documentation efforts, and leading in-house sustainable design project reviews. She facilitates an ongoing inter-office dialogue about innovative responses to the challenges of building sustainably. Johanna's project work has included institutional, civic, commercial office, health care, laboratory, transit, and large scale residential projects. She has co-authored research papers including a study of Daylighting for Patient Rooms in Northwest Hospitals, funded by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance. She was instrumental in the founding of the Sustainable Products Purchasers Coalition, on whose board she also serves.

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