Archived Webinars | Carbon Management Council

As part of its educational outreach, the Carbon Management Council conducts live webinars on key issues in carbon management. Webinars are free to all Council members. Non-members may attend the live event or view an archived version of the webinar for a fee of $29.99.

A webinar is a seminar, workshop, or presentation that is transmitted over the Web, with one or more presenters who can share information and interact with the audience.

All that's needed for a CMC webinar is a computer, internet access, and an hour of your time. Once you have access, presentations and audio will be streamed to your computer in real-time.

This webinar was led by experts from Environmental Defense Fund and Point Carbon.

Program includes:

Annie Petsonk
International Counsel, Climate and Air Program
Environmental Defense Fund

Annie Petsonk coordinates Environmental Defense's advocacy efforts on international environmental law, international agreements and institutions. She has served in the U.S. Justice Department and the Executive Office of the President during the administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton; the United Nations Environment Program; and private practice. An adjunct professor at The George Washington University Law School, she has published extensively on issues at the intersection of climate change and trade policy. Ms. Petsonk is a graduate of the Colorado College and Harvard Law School.

Kjell Olav Kristiansen
Director, Advisory Services
Point Carbon

Kjell Olav Kristiansen is Director of Advisory Services at Point Carbon North America. He has three decades of energy and environmental market experience having initially served 19 years for the Norwegian government in senior positions both with oil and natural gas exploration and production as well as with electricity market restructuring and environmental policies. In private sector he has been partner and executive vice president of a power trading company, co-owner and chairman of a carbon consulting company as well as running his own energy consulting company focusing on European energy and environmental policy and markets. Kjell has served eight years as Vice Chairman on the Board of Directors of the Norwegian Transmission System Operator.

He started working with Point Carbon in 2005 and transferred to the Washington DC office in 2007. He has previously lived and worked in the US as energy counselor at the Norwegian embassy in Washington DC. Kjell speaks frequently at energy and carbon trading conferences and he has testified to the United States Senate and the European Union on design of cap-and-trade programs.

Registration

Archived webinars include presentations and the accompanying audio tracks. Council members and attendees of the webinar receive a free archive of the event. The download is available to all others for a fee of $29.99.

Speakers

Dr. Julie Fox Gorte
Senior Vice President for Sustainable Investment, Pax World Management Corp.; Board of Directors, CERES

Dr. Julie Fox Gorte oversees environmental, social, and governance-related research on prospective and current investments as well as Pax's shareholder advocacy and work on public policy advocacy. Previously, Dr. Gorte was Chief Social Investment Strategist for the Calvert Group; Sr. Policy Analyst for Northeast-Midwest Institute; and a Program Manager for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Tim McGraw
Director of Corporate Environment and Safety
Northwest Airlines

Tim McGraw is responsible for NWA's worldwide Employee Safety, Environmental, and Corporate Environmental Responsibility programs. Mr. McGraw oversees NWA's EarthCares program, a company-wide effort to minimize the company's impact on the environment by reducing greenhouse gases, conserving natural resources, and eliminating waste. Mr. McGraw is also responsible for all environmental partnerships, including NWA's $1 million land conservation and carbon offset partnership with the Nature Conservancy.

Registration

Archived webinars include presentations, Q&A and the accompanying audio tracks. Council members and webinar attendees receive a free archive of the event. The download is available to all others for a fee of $29.99.

David Hunter
Director, US Policy
International Emissions Trading Association

David Hunter is the Director, US Policy for the International Emissions Trading Association, an organization created to help establish a functional international framework for trading greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Prior to joining IETA, Hunter spent nearly 9 years on Capitol Hill, where he was the principal energy, environment, and climate change advisor to two United States Senators and a Senate committee. He was previously Executive Editor of the Journal of Environment and Development and worked in the White House Office on Environmental Policy as a Department of Energy Global Change Fellow. He holds a bachelor's from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.

Milo is currently Head of New Carbon Finance North America, and has been a leading expert on carbon market analysis and price forecasting over the past four years. In his current capacity he is responsible for research and analysis into the emerging North American carbon markets including the development of dedicated carbon price forecasting models. He works with major financial and energy sector organisations to help them understand the implications of the climate change legislation in North America. Milo was one of the founding members of New Carbon Finance and prior to his current role he led the development of NCF's quantitative analysis of the European and global Kyoto carbon markets and was the main architect of NCF’s EU ETS and Kyoto models, based out of London. Milo has an undergraduate degree in Physics and a Masters in Energy and Resources from Utrecht University and Imperial College London.

John Harju
Associate Director for Research
Energy and Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakota

Mr. Harju is the Associate Director for Research, Energy and Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakota. He oversees the Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, a collaborative effort of public and private sector stakeholders working toward a better understanding of the technical and economic feasibility of capturing and storing anthropogenic CO2 emissions from stationary sources in the central interior of North America. His responsibilities at EERC also include developing and administering environmental programs involving water management and contamination cleanup and building industry–government–academic teams to carry out research, development, demonstration, and commercialization of environmental products and technologies.

Ed Steadman
Senior Research Advisor
Energy and Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakota

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Tim McGraw is responsible for NWA's worldwide Employee Safety, Environmental, and Corporate Environmental Responsibility programs. Mr. McGraw oversees NWA's EarthCares program, a company-wide effort to minimize the company's impact on the environment by reducing greenhouse gases, conserving natural resources, and eliminating waste. Mr. McGraw is also responsible for all environmental partnerships, including NWA's $1 million land conservation and carbon offset partnership with the Nature Conservancy.

Mr. Steadman is the Senior Research Advisor, Energy and Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakota. His responsibilities at EERC include directing a multidisciplinary team of researchers on a carbon sequestration project which details inventories of CO2 sources, geologic and terrestrial sinks, and sequestration infrastructure; identifying CO2 capture and separation technologies; investigating monitoring, mitigation, and verification technologies and permitting requirements; and defining the most promising opportunities for carbon sequestration in nine states and three Canadian provinces.

Claude Roulet

Dr. Roulet is Senior Advisor for Schlumberger Carbon Services. He has been with Schlumberger for 28 years, holding several technical and management positions in product development for the oilfield services group. He presently is Vice President of EUROGIF (European Oil & Gas Innovation Forum), Executive Advisor to the President of SWS (Schlumberger Water Services) and SCS (Schlumberger Carbon Services). He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Carbon Management Council. Dr. Roulet graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and holds a PhD in Nuclear Physics from the University of Paris Orsay.