This year's Renewable Energy Markets conference will be held in San Francisco and will be the largest yet. The event will be 4 days packed with converstaions, presentations, and unique opportunities to network and share ideas for the coming year. The conference will be held November 15-18 at the Parc 55 Wyndham Union Square Hotel in San Francisco. For more information, or to register, click here.

The San Francisco Carbon Collaborative has been granted provisional observer status for the United Nations Framework Conventation on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The admission will be finalized at this year's Conference of Parties 17 (COP 17) in Durban, South Africa. This year, COP 17 will be closely tracked as it comes down to the wire for nations to agree on a post-Kyoto treaty to manage climate change. The SFCC is excited and honored to have been selected to participate in this event as an observer.

EcoAnalytics, member of the San Francisco Carbon Collaborative, is featured in a blog post for Forbes by Michael Tobias. The article discusses EcoAnalytics, together with the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, being awarded funding by the USDA's Conservation Innovation Greenhouse Gas Grant. The $1.226 million award will go toward adapting forest carbon protocols to include projects on tribal lands.

"The carbon cap boom may be comeing to San Francisco. The 20-or-so San Francisco companies already established to create, audit, and verify greenhouse gas emission reductions and to sell and trade the offsets born from these reductions, expect to see a lot of growth as federal and state programs tackle carbon emissions."

Read more at http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/03/02/story8.html

October 7, 2010 -- San Francisco Carbon Collaborative partner DNV (U.S.A.), Inc. has received accreditation for to the ISO Standards 14065 and 14064-3 from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The ANSI accreditation means that DNV is now able to validate and verify projects using these standards under the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), Climate Action Reserve (CAR), and American Carbon Registry (ACR).

Verifications using these standards can be completed
for the following types of projects:  

October 4, 2010 - San Francisco Carbon Collaborative partner Energy Resource Management Corp. (EnergyRM) along with The Center for American Progress have released the paper: "Efficiency Works: Creating Good Jobs and New Markets Through Energy Efficiency." The paper, highlighted on a conference call by Sen. Harry Reid on Sept. 7, estimates that energy efficiency mandates could result in the creation of 625,000 jobs in the U.S.

Copenhagen Accord

The Heads of State, Heads of Government, Ministers, and other heads of the following delegations present at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen: [List of Parties]

In pursuit of the ultimate objective of the Convention as stated in its Article 2,

Being guided by the principles and provisions of the Convention,

Noting the results of work done by the two Ad hoc Working Groups,

Optimistic on the Eve of “Green Friday, ”COP15 Update. Friday, December 17, 2009

Here are other major areas of progress Clinton and counterparts will have to achieve before they can be confident of a deal this week:

* Will developing countries accept U.S. demands that there be tight monitoring and reporting requirements on the carbon emission-curbing commitments they promise? With one hand, Clinton offered up the $100 billion fund, but with the other she threatened to take it away if tough oversight was not included in a deal.

What is on the table for the negotiations in Copenhagen?

Below are some excerpts of a briefing book on the Copenhagen negotiations compiled by members of the U.S. Climate Action Network (attached). CAN is an activist network composed of dedicated agitators in the field, and while CAN’s advocacy is framed by a strong positions in the debate, the pages attached provide a fairly straightforward summary and orientation to the proceedings.