EVENT IS FULL: Green House Gas Management: New and Growing Green Gigs, Trends and Tipping Points

Dates: 3/19/2009 - 3/19/2009

Time: 5:30 pm - 8 pm

Green House Gas Management: 

New and Growing Green Gigs, Trends and Tipping Points

When:

March 19, 2009

Where:

1725 Eye Street NW, Concourse Level Meeting Room
Washington , District of Columbia  20006 

Time:

5:30 P.M. - 8  P.M.  

Evening's Agenda:

5:30 - 6:30 P.M. Green Business Networking Reception

6:30 - 8:00 P.M.

Join Special SB NOW Presenter, Michael Gillenwater.  

Michael Gillenwater is a co-founder and Dean of the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute and serves as its Executive Director. He also founded the Greenhouse Gas Experts Network. The Institute is a non-profit organization focused on training and professionalizing the community of experts that measure, account for, audit and manage greenhouse gas emissions. Michael is actively engaged in the training experts for the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Climate Change Secretariat and supports the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation programs. He is a lead author for the Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and core advisor on the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol. While working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, he co-established the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Program, and served on the U.S. delegation to the UN climate change negotiations. Michael is currently completing a PhD in the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program at Princeton University, where his research focuses on the design of tradable environmental commodities, emission offsets, and compliance monitoring. He has a masters degrees in environmental engineering and public policy from MIT, was a Fulbright scholar to the United Kingdom, and a mechanical engineering bachelors from Texas A&M.

Cost:

No Charge

Please Pre-Register On-Line at SBNOW.org.  Click on the link under the "Mastermind Series - Up Coming Events" Section on the right-hand side of the homepage.  Attendance is limited to 50 persons.  Please register early.

Travel:

Metro: 

Take metro to Farragut West Metro stop (Orange/Blue lines); take 17th and I Street exit, go one block West upon exiting.

Bike:  Bike Parking at Farragut Center Parking Garage, Free.

Car:  Parking at Farragut Center Parking Garage, $7/evening after 5:00 PM. 

Driving Directions:  Please see mapquest.com or Google maps for driving instructions.

  

The Greenhouse Gas Management Institute, a 501 (c)(3) registered nonprofit organization, trains, certifies, and networks a global community of experts that account, audit and manage GHG emissions based on world-class training and professional standards. The Institute is for individuals and organizations, from beginners to certified professionals, working on all aspects of climate change. The Institute works with ClimateCHECK, the World Resources Institute, the World Bank, the UNFCCC, the Carbon Disclosure Project, Point Carbon, and other leading experts on training and programs utilizing innovative internet tools to ensure that market mechanisms and policy responses to climate change are effective and credible.  For more information, go to www.ghginstitute.org

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