Government of Canada

The Government of Canada is a proud partner of this year’s North American Carbon World conference and applauds the Climate Action Reserve’s efforts to bring together people from across the globe who are working tirelessly to address the challenges of climate change. In Canada we have a clean growth and climate action plan that we believe will make real progress at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving the commitments of the Paris Agreement. We are putting a price on carbon pollution not to raise money, but to shift the energy choices we make and reward a shift to cleaner economic growth. We are investing in green infrastructure, urban transit and clean tech. Canada has also partnered with the UK to create the Powering Past Coal Alliance to accelerate the transition off coal and onto cleaner energy. Over 70 countries, cities, regions and organizations, including Los Angeles, have joined this Alliance. We look forward to sharing our climate success stories with all of you!

State of California

CBL Markets

CBL Markets is a global exchange providing market participants with access to the world’s energy and environmental commodity markets. With a vision of bringing efficiency, transparency and liquidity to commodities markets, our exchange connects buyers and sellers around the world to facilitate the secure and seamless trading of energy and environmental commodities, including carbon, renewable energy, water, and gas. For more information visit www.cblmarkets.com.

Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins provides clients across the globe with innovative solutions to their most complex business issues and disputes. Building on a tradition of excellence in client service, Latham offers robust corporate and litigation advice and representation.

With one of the largest and most successful climate change and environmental markets practices globally, Latham advises clients on how to respond to existing climate change regulations, laws, and litigation, shape the development of new policies, and capitalize on market and investment opportunities.

Latham unites the resources of an international firm with an on-the-ground understanding of local markets and deep industry and product insight in order to provide clients an integrated and effective combination of litigation representation, creative transactional advice, and policy advocacy before multiple government agencies.

For more information, please visit www.lw.com.

SoCalGas®

Headquartered in Los Angeles, SoCalGas® is the largest natural gas distribution utility in the United States. SoCalGas delivers affordable, reliable, clean and increasingly renewable natural gas service to 21.8 million customers across 24,000 square miles of Central and Southern California, where more than 90 percent of residents use natural gas for heating, hot water, cooking, drying clothes or other uses. Natural gas delivered through the company’s pipelines also plays a key role in providing electricity to Californians—about 60 percent of electric power generated in the state comes from natural gas-fired power plants. The company is also committed to being a leader in the region’s clean energy future, and is working to accelerate the use of renewable natural gas from dairy farms, diverted organic waste, and wastewater treatment plants and the development of renewable energy storage technologies. https://www.socalgas.com/rng

APX

The APX mission is to empower the world’s transition to sustainable energy. We continue to achieve this by providing energy and environmental markets, worldwide, with intelligent, transparent, and trusted solutions. More than 5,000 clients, including governments, corporations, and developers globally rely on APX products and services for integrity in environmental markets with more than two billion credits transacted.

APX registry technology is used by the Climate Action Reserve for both CRT and ROC tracking, as well as for CAR’s recent launch of their Climate Forward program. APX registry technology is also behind 10 additional carbon or renewable energy registries around the world, including NAR, NEPOOL GIS and WREGIS.

To learn more about APX and our industry-leading Environmental Management Account (EMA) solution visit our website at www.apx.com.

ClimeCo

ClimeCo is a leader in the management and development of environmental commodities. They combine unrivaled commodity market expertise with engineering and environmental assessment, as well as permitting and transactional structuring helping clients maximize their environmental assets and minimize regulatory costs. From advisory services to offsets sourcing, carbon trading, and project development, they provide comprehensive, vertically integrated solutions to help reduce their customers’ environmental impact—whether they are responding to emissions regulations or satisfying voluntary sustainability goals.

ClimeCo is celebrating 10-years in business! They began with a laser-focus on scalable US-based industrial GHG abatement projects and their goal was to build real projects that reduced greenhouse gases while creating value for the environment and customers. ClimeCo is making a difference and creating a positive impact on the world. In the years since its founding, they’ve continued to expand their environmental markets, areas of expertise, service offerings, and geographical reach. https://climeco.com

Finite Carbon

North America’s leading developer of forest carbon offsets, Finite Carbon is the forest carbon development company that provides a single-source solution for creating and monetizing carbon credits. Combining unparalleled project development experience with extensive carbon market knowledge, we offer forestland investors, Native American communities, non-profits, and family landowners the most comprehensive forest carbon project development and commercialization service in North America. With an in-house team of forest carbon experts who are industry leaders with demonstrated experience in each step of the forest carbon project cycle, we offer the expertise and resources for successful implementation of forest carbon inventories, protocol selection, project design, verification management, and monetization of carbon credits. http://www.finitecarbon.com/

FivePoint Today

FivePoint is California’s premier community builder, developing innovative coastal communities that redefine sustainable living in the 21st century. FivePoint recognizes that communities should be more than places to live and work—they are places to learn, explore, thrive and connect. FivePoint’s Newhall Ranch will be a landmark master-planned community that will help meet the needs of Los Angeles County with 11.5 million square feet of new commercial space, 74,000 permanent jobs and 21,500 homes. Importantly, it will also set a new standard of environmental sustainability with comprehensive measures to conserve natural resources and an unprecedented commitment to net zero greenhouse gas emissions during construction and operation and net zero energy homes and buildings. https://www.fivepoint.com/

ICIS

ICIS Carbon market analytics – Market analysis, price forecasts, data and news to help you make better trading decisions.

ICIS is the only dedicated and global carbon market intelligence provider that can leverage behavioural modelling to formulate actionable and accurate insights from over 2 million data points and over 6 million emission allowance transactions in the EU ETS alone.

Our analysis covers all major carbon markets worldwide: EU ETS, Western Climate Initiative (California, Quebec, Ontario), RGGI and China’s pilots and National ETS.

Find out more about our carbon analytics solutions> https://www.icis.com/explore/services/analytics/carbon-market-analytics/?cmpid=PLC|ENER|CHCCH-2019-1804-US-nacw_cross_promo_website

IETA

IETA is a non-profit international business organisation that promotes the establishment of a functional global framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions. We seek to develop an emissions trading regime that results in real and verifiable greenhouse gas emission reductions, while balancing economic efficiency with environmental integrity.

Established in 1999, IETA is the leading voice of the business community on the subject of carbon markets. IETA’s members comprise more than 130 companies from across the carbon trading spectrum, and who are active in jurisdictions where carbon pricing policies are in place, being implemented or considered. IETA’s members include global leaders in the oil, electricity, cement, aluminium, chemical, paper, technology, data verification, broking, trading, legal, finance, and consulting industries. https://www.ieta.org/

LADWP

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest municipal water and power utility in the nation, was established more than 100 years ago to deliver reliable, safe water and electricity to 4 million residents and businesses in Los Angeles. https://www.ladwp.com

Southern California Edison (SCE)

Southern California Edison continues to lead the transformation of the electric power industry, focusing on opportunities in clean energy, efficient electrification, grid of the future, and customer choice to strengthen and grow our business – while dealing with the challenge of our time, climate-change-driven wildfires. SCE has provided electric service in the region for more than 130 years and serves approximately 15 million people in a 50,000 square-mile area of central, coastal and Southern California. https://www.sce.com/

BAAQMD

Since 1955, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has been the public agency responsible for protecting air quality in the nine counties that surround San Francisco Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma counties. The Air District is governed by a 24-member Board of Directors composed of locally elected officials from each of the nine Bay Area counties which oversees policies and adopts regulations to reduce air pollution in the region. The Air District aims to create a healthy breathing environment for every Bay Area resident while protecting and improving public health, air quality, and the global climate. http://www.baaqmd.gov/

IncubEx

IncubEx is an incubator for exchange traded products, services, and technology solutions. At its core, IncubEx is a product and business development firm. The company works in conjunction with its partner, Nodal Exchange and other leading service providers and stakeholders to design and develop new financial products in global environmental, reinsurance, and related commodity markets. The company has a specific focus on innovation and continuous improvement of products and services, including technology, trading solutions, and operational efficiencies. The IncubEx team is comprised of former key Climate Exchange executives and is uniquely positioned to capture these opportunities with its partners. The company was founded in 2016 and currently has offices in Chicago and London. https://theincubex.com/

Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a regional wholesaler that delivers water to 26 member public agencies which in turn provides water to 19 million people in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego and Ventura counties. Metropolitan is governed by a 38-member board of directors who represent their respective member agencies.’

To supply the more than 300 cities and unincorporated areas in Southern California with reliable and safe water, Metropolitan owns and operates an extensive water system including: the Colorado River Aqueduct, 16 hydroelectric facilities, nine reservoirs, 819 miles of large-scale pipes and five water treatment plants. The District imports water from the Feather River in Northern California and the Colorado River to supplement local supplies. It also helps its member agencies develop water recycling, storage and other local resource programs to provide additional supplies and conservation programs to reduce regional demands. For more information about Metropolitan visit http://www.mwdh2o.com/.

California Compliance Insurance

Enking International

EnKing International is India’s largest Carbon Offset Developer and Supplier to the Developed Nations. We trade high quality and resonable price CP1 CERs, CP2 CERs, GS CERs, GS VERs, IRECs, TIGRs, VCUs, ACA compliance credits & other environmental commodities.

It provides advisory services to businesses to meet Carbon Emission Reduction Targets & also helps projects to get Validation & Verification under CDM, VCS, GS,IREC, TIGRs GHG Mitigation Programs. To know more about us visit www.enkingint.org.

First Environment, Inc.

First Environment provides technical assistance and assurance services for GHG reporting or offset projects under most North American compliance or voluntary programs. We assist project developers with emission reduction projects, including producing project description documents, monitoring plans, and offset calculations and support public and private organizations with the development of GHG inventories and facility reports.First Environment is CARB-accredited as a verification body for cap and trade compliance offset project data reports with livestock, ODS, and mine methane capture project specialties. The firm is also a CARB-accredited VB for GHG emission data reports under the MRR and our team includes transaction, oil and gas, and process emissions sector specialists. In addition, as CARB implements updated LCFS requirements, First Environment is pursuing LCFS VB accreditation.

First Environment is also ANSI-accredited to verify voluntary offset projects under the CAR, VCS, and ACR programs as well as TCR and ACA GHG reporting. http://firstenvironment.com/

Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education

Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education unites ideas and people. We convene thinkers and doers from around the globe who are committed to advancing the public interest. Our executive programs—most one week or less—are developed with leaders in mind and offer a unique opportunity to step outside of the day-to-day routine to focus on global issues and sustainable solutions. Reach beyond your current knowledge and skills, expand your thinking, strengthen your ability to lead, and reenergize your drive to make a difference. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/executive-education

ANSI National Accreditation Board

ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) is the largest multi-disciplinary accreditation body in North America, playing an important role in ensuring the safety and quality of goods and services and in protecting the environment.

ANAB is a member to the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and is the only U.S. signatory to the MLA for accreditation of greenhouse gas (GHG) validation and verification bodies. This accreditation assesses the competence of organizations determining conformance to international standards as well as a number of mandatory and voluntary GHG programs.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is now the sole owner of the ANAB and will further bolster independence and impartiality of its accreditation programs by integrating legacy ANSI accreditation programs with ANAB’s portfolio of services. ANSI is proud to be partner of the Climate Action Reserve and The Climate Registry in supporting credible and transparent climate disclosures. ANSI oversees development and use of standards in nearly every business sector. https://www.ansi.org/