Global Warming Policy and Pennsylvania Agriculture

Wednesday, November 8, 2006

9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
PA DEP Southeast Regional Office
2 East Main St, Norristown, PA

A workshop exploring opportunities for the Pennsylvania agricultural community and others to benefit economically from emerging global warming policies that offset carbon emissions through terrestrial sequestration.

• What is terrestrial carbon sequestration?

• Where are farmers already adding income through offsets?

• What are the opportunities for Pennsylvania?

• How can environmentalists work with farmers to build strong farms and address global warming?
  

Contact: Sean Jacobs, 215.567.4004, ext. 102 (sjacobs@cleanair.org)

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~AGENDA~

9:00 a.m.          Registration & Coffee

9:30 a.m.      Welcome
Joseph Otis Minott, Esq.,
Executive Director, Clean Air Council

9:45 a.m.        What is Carbon Sequestration and What are Agricultural Offsets?

Dr. Julie Jastrow,
Argonne National Laboratory

Jeni Wightman, Central New York Resource Conservation & Development

10:30 a.m.        Question & Answer Session

10:45 a.m.        Break

11:00 a.m.        Panel I:
Agricultural Offsets in Practice

George Bolton, Vice President of Aggregation,
AgCert Services Inc.

Dr. Scott Subler, President, Environmental Credit Corp.

Ted Dodge, Executive Director, National Carbon Offset Coalition

12:00 p.m.       Question & Answer Session

12:15 p.m.      Lunch

1:15 p.m.        Keynote Address
Kathleen McGinty, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

1:45 p.m.        Panel II:
Sequestration Applications on the Horizon in PA

John Quigley, Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources     

Dr. Paul Hepperly, Research Manager, Rodale Institute

Dan Desmond, Deputy Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection

2:45 p.m.         Break

3:00 p.m.         Keynote Address
Dennis Wolff, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture

3:30 p.m.         Panel III:
Policy Opportunities and New Partnerships

Larry Breech , President, Pennsylvania Farmers Union

Nathan Clark, Chicago Climate Exchange

Sara Hessenflow Harper, Policy Analyst, Environmental Defense

4:30 p.m.         Closing Remarks & Adjournment