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BSAS Luncheon Program: SEC Climate Change Disclosure Requirements
2010-12-14 12:15 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Hyatt Regency Boston, One Avenue de Lafayette, Boston, MA, 02111, United States
SEC Climate Change Disclosure Requirements: What you need to know – Legal, Analyst, Corporate and Asset Manager Perspectives
SEC requirements for disclosure of material climate change impacts became effective earlier this year upon the publication of clarifying guidance by the agency. With the upcoming flood of annual filings following the end of this calendar year, virtually all public companies will be reporting based on their assessments of how climate change will affect their business, most for the first time.
Join our panelists to learn what the disclosure requirements are (and aren’t), what good disclosure practices are and what you can learn from companies who practice them, what you can expect to see and what opportunities these new guidelines may offer for analysts and asset managers to shape more informative disclosure going forward.
Panelists:

Chris Davis, Director of Investor Programs, CERES, and environmental attorney. Former partner, Goodwin-Procter.
Adam Kanzer, Managing Director and General Counsel of Domini Social Investments. Member of SEC Investor Advisory Committee
David Lodemore, Senior Vice President of Risk Management at National Grid
Rebecca Henson, Sustainability Analyst, Calvert

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REC Markets and your bottom line - NECEC Finance Series
2010-11-30 08:00 - 10:00 | CooleyLLP, 500 Boylston St., Boston, MA, 02216, United States
REC Markets and your bottom line, the third panel in the New England Clean Energy Council’s Finance Series, will take place on Tuesday morning, November 30th, from 8:00 am to 10:00 am.
With the current lack of national policy supporting clean energy growth, Renewable Energy Credits (REC) play an ever-increasing role in funding clean energy projects and companies. Join the New England Clean Energy Council’s panel of experts for a discussion on the importance of the REC markets in providing revenue streams for project finance.
Register online here – $40 for non-members, free for members.

The Social Challenge of Wind Energy Projects
2010-11-09 08:30 - 15:00 | Plymouth Radisson, 180 Water St., Plymouth, MA, United States
The Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences is sponsoring a one-day conference on “The Social Challenge of Wind Energy Projects” on November 9th in Plymouth, MA.
Recognizing that local issues – cultural and political – are often bigger challenges to wind energy projects than technical or financial issues, this conference will “examine efficient and science-based ways to talk about wind energy.
The conference brings together community leaders, developers, conservationists and social outreach experts who have firsthand experience with wind power permitting and development. Panelists will discuss projects that faced significant social challenges and projects that were permitted and built without acrimonious opposition.

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New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable: EPA Perspective
2010-10-29 09:00 - 12:15 | Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor , Boston, MA, 02110, United States
Raab Associates presents the 119th New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable featuring Gina McCarthy and Curt Spalding from the EPA on October 29th, 2010. This roundtable will explore how the convergence of new environmental regulations from the U.S.EPA and New England states will impact the region’s electricity resource mix, and how we plan and operate the electricity grid.
To have the nation’s lead air regulator, Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, U.S. EPA, to describe the various new or under-development regulations, and offer her thoughts on how these regulations, together with existing federal and state (e.g., RGGI) regulations, could impact New England. Gina will be introduced by Curt Spalding, our new EPA Regional Administrator for New England.
Gina’s keynote address will be followed by a question and answer period, and then by a panel of expert discussants:

Massachusetts DEP Commissioner Laurie Burt, who is also the current Chair of both the Ozone Transport Commission and the New England Governors’ Environment Committee, will kick-off the panel.
ISO New England Chief Operating Officer Vamsi Chadalavada, will discuss how these regulations should be accounted for in the planning and operation of New England’s electric grid and its various markets.
Pamela Faggert, Vice President and Chief Environmental Officer at Dominion, will discuss how the new regulations might impact Dominion’s and other resources in New England.
Paul Hibbard, now Vice President at Analysis Group, will present a study that his firm, in collaboration with M.J. Bradley & Associates, recently completed for the Clean Energy Group on the impact that the new EPA air regulations could have on the electric fleet nationally.

NECA Demand Response Conference
2010-10-21 08:15 - 15:15 | Newton Marriott Hotel, 2345 Commonwealth Ave., Newton, MA, United States
The Northeast Energy and Commerce Association hosts its annual Energy Efficiency and Demand Response conference on October 21, 2010 at the Newton Marriott hotel.
This all-day event features three panel discussions and a keynote presentation by Bob Valair, the Director of Energy Management for Staples.
The conference is $250 for NECA members, $300 for non-members and $99 for government agencies. All fees increase $25 after October 14th.
You can review the program brochure and full agenda here.

BASIC networking event hosted by Trucost
2010-10-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Market Boston, 21 Broad Street, Second Floor, Boston, MA, 02109, United States
Please join BASIC, the Boston Area Sustainable Investment Consortium, for an evening of BASIC networking and refreshments hosted by Trucost to celebrate their 10th anniversary, 2nd year of the Newsweek Green Rankings and landmark UN PRI report.
Trucost was established in 2000, to help organizations, investors and governments understand and quantify their environmental impacts. Over the past 10 years Trucost has collected, researched and validated environmental data from organizations across the world. The result is the world’s most comprehensive data on corporate environmental impacts, covering Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), water, waste, metals and chemicals.

The Future of Renewable Energy in New England - Raab Associates Restructuring Roundtable
2010-09-17 09:00 - 12:30 | Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston, 02210, United States
Raab Associates’ ongoing Restructuring Roundtable kicks off its 2010 sesions with a panel discussion on renewable energy’s future in New England.
Renewable energy installations of all types (wind, biomass, solar, landfill gas) have been proliferating in New England, while Renewable Portfolio Standards continue to ratchet-up. At the same time, recent developments have introduced significant uncertainty into the renewable energy markets in New England. These include the failure to enact federal legislation to price carbon, the uncertain status of future federal renewable tax credits, the TransCanada law suit, the EIPC transmission and renewable planning process, and the biomass study for MA DOER by Manomet.
The event’s two panels will examine the net effect of these and other factors impacting renewable energy development in New England.
The first will be a high level, cross-cutting panel whose speakers will share their expectations about the future of renewables in New England. This panel is comprised of:

Commissioner Phil Giudice, MA Department of Energy Resources
Bob Grace, President, Sustainable Energy Advantage
Ellen Angley, VP Energy Supply/Supply Chain Management, NSTAR
Michael Hachey, VP/Director, Eastern Commercial, TransCanada
Alan Nogee, Dir. of Climate & Energy Strategy & Policy, Union of Concerned Scientists

The second panel look at biomass carbon accounting and sustainable biomass issues.

Tom Walker – the lead author of the Manomet biomass study for MA DOER
Marco Albani, Expert Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co. will discuss the recent study led by a consortium of major European industry and environmental organizations
Professor William Moomaw of Tufts University will offer his reflections on both studies and will discuss the complexities of biomass and carbon accounting.

No pre-registration is required.

The Outlook for Green Investing - Lessons from Overseas Markets
2010-04-29 12:15 - 14:00 | Harvard Club of Boston, One Federal Street, Boston, MA, 02110, United States
The SRI program committee of the Boston Security Analysts Society is pleased to present “The Outlook for Green Investing: What Can We Learn From Overseas Markets” on April 29th.
The program will feature Jack Robinson, President and Chief Investment Officer of Winslow Management Company, and Sara Elford, Sustainability Research Analyst at Canaccord Adams.
Jack Robinson will highlight developments in environmental investing over the last few decades and will share his insights into the outlook for this sector, including which areas look most promising, (such as the smart grid, carbon trading, clean tech, and energy efficiency). He will also cover whether legislative changes and other macro drivers are critical for the sector’s growth. Sara Elford, ranked Canada’s #2 stock picker for diversified industrials by Star Mine, will discuss a number of attractive stock ideas and provide insights into environmental investing trends in Europe and possible implications for the US.
This lunch program will be held at the Harvard Club of Boston at One Federal Street. The cost is $40 for BSAS members and $70 for non-members. Details and registration are available here at the BSAS web site.

Babson Energy and Environmental Conference
2010-03-25 08:00 - 18:00 | Babson College, 231 Forest St., Babson Park, MA, 02457, United States
Begun as the Babson “Environmental Energy Expo” in 2007, the fourth Babson Energy and Environmental Conference will be held at Babson on March 25th.
This year’s session will feature:

A keynote address by Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Yogurt
Morning Panel discussions
Lunch keynote by Richard Goode, Senior Director of Sustainability for Alcatel-Lucent
Afternoon talks by speakers who have developed and deployed business models for sustainability in different domains
Closing session with Martin Madaus, CEO of Millipore and WBUR’s Tom Ashbrook

Details and registration are available at Babson’s Conference web site.

New England Clean Energy Council - The Resurrection of Project Finance
2010-03-18 10:00 | Mintz Levin, One Financial Center, Boston, MA, 02110, United States
Project Finance is a critical requirement for renewable energy projects and thus for the growth of companies in clean tech and sustainability. Led by investment banks and heavily funded through tax equity, Project Finance took a big hit during the financial meltdown.
This New England Clean Energy Council event will feature an expert panel discussing today’s market for project finance including sources of capital, financial incentives and debt and equity structures.
Panelists:

Paul Gaynor, CEO, First Wind
Daniel Goldman, EVP & CFO, GreatPoint Energy; Member, Clean Energy
Venture Group
Russell Landon, Managing Director, Canaccord Adams
Marlene Motyka, Principal, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Mark Reidy, Member, Mintz Levin
David Richardson, Managing Director & CEO, Global Energy Investors

The panel will be moderated by:

Peter Rothstein, Senior Vice President, New England Clean Energy Council
Stephen “Zam” Zamierowski, Director, Deloitte Services

Details for the session are here at the NECEC web site. (The session is sold out as of March 15th).
