A detailed list of upcoming conferences, meetings and events where climate change policy and initiatives are discussed and analyzed.
Nov. 13: Northeast Biochar Symposium 2009; Amherst, Mass.This symposium will highlight current biochar research and technological advances and provide vital information to public officials, researchers, and sustainable energy and agriculture professionals. Biochar is considered a significant strategy for removing net carbon from the atmosphere for safe...
Nov. 16: International Symposium on Cities and Carbon Management; TokyoThe Global Carbon Project at the National Institute for Environmental Studies Japan and the Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science of The University of Tokyo cordially invite you to a joint event aimed at bridging science and policies to facilitate and support for development of a...
Nov. 24-27: Green Build China; ShanghaiThis conference will cover best practices in green build design and development, including the latest Chinese sustainable building policy and regulation, market outlook, economic fundamentals and financing options for green building projects, ways to improve the sustainability of the built...
Dec. 3-6: The Copenhagen Climate Exchange 2009; CopenhagenThe Copenhagen Climate Exchange will be a forum for cities, nongovernmental organizations and innovative enterprises to share ideas on how to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, improve ecological conditions, and encourage sustainable energy and show the leaders of the World at U.N. Climate Change...
Dec. 7-10: Ecobuild America: Sustainable & Smart; Washington, D.C.This conference, held in conjunction with the National Institute of Building Sciences, will provide information on sustainable and smart buildings. It will bring together the councils and committees of the institute including its board of directors, consultative council, building enclosure...
Dec. 7-18: United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15); CopenhagenThe Conference of Parties is the highest body of the United Nations Climate Change Convention and consists of environment ministers who meet once a year to discuss the convention's developments. This year, the parties will negotiate terms of a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol which expires...
Jan. 20-22, 2010: The New Green Economy; Washington, D.C.The National Council for Science and the Environment's national conference engages leading thinkers and doers from a diversity of disciplines, sectors, and perspectives in a structured conversation about the meaning of the green economy and how investment in green education, research and jobs can...
May 3, 2010: Fifth Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands; ParisThe fifth Global Oceans Conference will specifically address the challenges and opportunities posed by the emerging international consensus on a new climate regime (as developed through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Copenhagen, December 2009). Mitigation, adaptation, and financing...