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Regulators and Business Leaders to Gather on Global Warming
Regulators and Business Leaders to Gather on Global Warming
Published 04-29-05
Submitted by Clean Air Cool Planet
Among the business speakers are John Rowe, Chairman and CEO of Exelon Corporation, whose keynote address is "Ensuring a Prosperous, Low carbon Future". Timberland CEO Jeffrey Swartz will give a luncheon address on "Why Corporate Climate Leadership is Good Business."
Policy makers speaking at GWS 2005 include Alan Lloyd, California EPA Secretary and chairman of the California Climate Action Registry. Other top regulators include Connecticut DEP Commissioner Gina McCarthy; New York State Acting Commissioner of Environmental Conservation Denise Sheehan; and Pennsylvania Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen McGinty.
"Clean Air - Cool Planet is bringing the private sector and regulators together under one roof - which no one else is doing when it comes to global warming solutions," stated Bruce Usher, CEO of EcoSecurities, who will be joined at the conference by Mindy Lubber of CERES, Philip Sharp, and Robert Pratt of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust.
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
The conference features a plenary panel of utility, manufacturing and environmental policy leaders on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative - a cooperative effort by Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, was formed in response to a call from New York Governor Pataki in April of 2003for a regional market-based plan. In the next few months the RGGI is expected to announce the design of a cap-and-trade program for CO2 covering the power sector in the northeast. Top regulators will also be on hand prepared to discuss cap and trade programs and other initiatives.
The conference is designed to help businesses and investors prepare for future regulations, take advantage of emerging opportunities, and understand the growing body of knowledge about global warming and its impacts locally and around the world. The steering committee includes some of the nation's leading experts on global warming and energy who have signed on to help Clean Air-Cool Planet Executive Director Adam Markham assemble a conference that will speak to the concerns of corporations in key sectors, including manufacturing, retail, energy generation and financial services.
"Helping businesses and the private sector save money, improve performance in the eyes of customers and employees, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions accounts for much of our success in our first five years," explained Markham. "In order for us to serve more corporations and financial interests more effectively, we brought our second conference to New York."
Conference sponsors include The Timberland Company, Keyspan, PSEG and the SGS Climate Change Program.
ClimateBiz.com is also a sponsor, as is CSRWire. ClimateBiz.com is a partnership venture of Businesses for Social Responsibility and GreenBiz. CSRWire is the newswire service for corporate social responsibility.
About CA-CP
Clean Air-Cool Planet, a regional non-profit with offices in New England and the New York City tri-state area. As the region's leading organization dedicated to finding and promoting solutions to global warming, Clean Air-Cool Planet creates partnerships in the Northeast to implement solutions to climate change and build constituencies for effective climate policies and actions.
