The Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum 2009(LACF), hosted by the Panamanian National Environmental Authority – ANAM, is holding a three day Forum. This year, the event takes place in Panama City, Panama from 24 to 26 June, 2009.
The Forum is organized by the UNEP Risoe Centre (URC) in Denmark, the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), and the World Bank Institute (WBI) as part of their activities devoted to develop CDM capacities in the Region.
During the three day event key stakeholders will discuss the Latin American and Caribbean regional and global carbon market and the challenges associated with global climate change, and recent developments in the international carbon market.
“This is the fourth time that the UNEP Risoe Centre is organising this event and it remain unique in the sense that it provides a platform for knowledge & information sharing as this is a free-of-charge event, which brings together project developers and technical specialists from a variety of countries,” says John Christensen, Head of UNEP Risoe Centre.
The three days event provide the participants with the opportunity to learn from the most respected experts from the public and private sector on strategies and measures aimed at promoting the benefits of the CDM in the region and offers opportunity to discuss the options of a carbon market beyond the Kyoto Protocol.
Based on an analysis by the UNEP Risoe CDM Pipeline, a total of about 1400 Latin American ad Caribbean CDM projects are expected to be in the pipeline (under Validation, Requesting Registration & Registered) by the end of 2012( www.cdmpipeline.org ).
“This could be a major financial flow of a total of 3, 9 billion US assuming a CER price of 15 USD a ton until 2012 to the region. There is a lot of activity within the region it is worth mentioning that the first programmatic CDM project requesting registration comes from Mexico”, says Miriam Hinostroza, Senior Economist and Carbon Finance Coordinator at URC.
The Latin American and the Caribbean Carbon Forum 2009, will facilitate discussions between project developers and technical specialists of a wide range of sectors and technologies arising from best practices and lessons learned for the implementation of CDM projects in Latin America, hold bilateral meetings, both as attendance and by virtual means, between the national CDM offices, project owners, buyers of carbon credits, etc., during the business sessions; and seize opportunities to establish contacts throughout the Forum.
The Latin American and the Caribbean Carbon Forum 2009, is held at the “El Panama” Hotel, Panama City, Panama http://www.latincarbon.com/2009/
For further info please see:
www.uneprisoe.org
For Comments and interviews please contact:
For Spanish/English: Miriam Hinostroza, Carbon Finance Coordinator,UNEP Risoe Centre
MILH@risoe.dtu.dk
For English/Danish:
John Christensen, Head of the UNEP Risoe Centre JOCH@risoe.dtu.dk
For general information: Mette Annelie Rasmusen, Communication Coordinator, META@risoe.dtu.dk Tel: +45 46775131 or +45 26786718
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