GLIN==> Cap and Trade Webinar: Thursday, October 15, 2009

October 15, 2009
12:00 - 1:30pm
The  webinar  is  free,  but  spaces  are  limited.  Email Diana Lantz
(lantz.30 at osu.edu) to register. She will send instructions to registered
attendees.


You’ve heard the hype in the news, now get the facts! This webinar will
provide the latest information on the:
  * Science of climate change, and potential implications for Ohio’s future
    climate
  * Status of federal climate change legislation in Congress
  * Role of cap and trade policies
  * Likely economic implications for Ohio consumers and businesses
  * Actions landowners can take to reduce carbon emissions

-Welcome and Introduction- - _Brent Sohngen_

-What is climate change and why is it important to consider policy now? A
science perspective- - _Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Professor, Department of
Geography, Ohio State University
_-Climate change and Ohio- - _Tom Blaine, Ohio State University Extension
_-What is cap and trade? What do legislative proposals currently in Congress
say about it?- - _Brent Sohngen, Professor, Department of Agricultural,
Environmental, and Development Economics, Ohio State University_

-Implications of cap and trade for Ohio industry and jobs- -_ Tim Haab,
Professor,  Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development
Economics, Ohio State University_

-What’s in it for agriculture and forests? Land-based offsets in the cap and
trade  system-  - _Bill  Stanley,  Director of Conservation, The Nature
Conservancy, Ohio Chapter_

Discussions - All presentations will be brief, only 10 minutes. Participants
will have the opportunity to email questions to the speakers during the
seminar.

_Thomas  W.  Blaine_  is  a  natural resource economist and an Associate
Professor with Ohio State University Extension. He conducts research and
develops educational materials on a wide range of environmental topics
including recycling, protection of sensitive ecosystems, and global climate
change.

_Tim  Haab_  is  a  Professor  of  environmental economics at Ohio State
University.  He  is an expert on the valuation of difficult to measure
environmental  resources,  and  on  the  influence  of social norms on
environmental behaviors. Recently, Dr. Haab has developed modeling tools to
assess the implications of climate policy on the Ohio economy. He writes an
influential environmental economics blog: [1]www.env-econ.net.
  Links:
    1. file://localhost/tmp/XXXXOdSc5w/www.env-econ.net

_Ellen  Mosley-Thompson_  is  a Professor of climatology and atmospheric
science at Ohio State University. She specializes in the reconstruction of
Earth’s climate history from the chemical and physical properties preserved
in ice cores collected from glaciers around the world. She is a University
Distinguished  Scholar  at  Ohio State University, and a member of the
prestigious National Academy of Sciences.

_Brent  Sohngen_ is a Professor of environmental economics at Ohio State
University. He conducts research on land use and climate change, carbon
trading, and water quality trading. He co-authored sections of the 2001 and
2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports on the impacts of
climate change on forests and agriculture, and on the potential for carbon
sequestration in forests.

_Bill  Stanley_  is  the Director of Conservation in Ohio for The Nature
Conservancy, and is also developing a carbon offset strategy for the North
American Region of The Nature Conservancy. Prior to this he was the director
of TNC’s Global Climate Change Initiative, with oversight of the forest
carbon offset and climate change adaptation programs. He has published work
on policies that promote land management and offsets as tools for reducing
global warming and was a co-author and principal reviewer of two of the most
well-respected  forest carbon offset standards. The Nature Conservancy
continues to be a leader in forest carbon offset projects, with over a dozen
projects in six countries.
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