The Carbon War Room is passionate about eliminating market failures and moving capital to entrepreneurs in clean technology. Our active projects have all been started through solutions suggested at previous Creating Climate Wealth Summits, and all our future ones will start here. Over the last 12 months, we have been putting the solutions and outputs from last year’s CCW North America Summit to work. In September we launched the PACE Commercial Consortium, a solution recommended in the energy efficiency track, which included Barclays Capital, Lockheed Martin, Energi, and Ygrene. The Consortium has already unlocked $650 million of private capital for energy efficiency retrofits in Sacramento, California and Miami-Dade County, Florida. This year we hope to accelerate these efforts as well as facilitate new consortia in a bid to reach our $1.5 billion target of deployed private capital in energy efficiency retrofits by the 2012 London Olympics. December saw the launch of RenewableJetFuels.org, the world’s first online market information service analyzing the leading companies set to supply commercial scale renewable fuel for aviation. Launched by the Carbon War Room and powered by Elsevier Biofuel TechSelectTM beta, this new information solution also came directly out of last year’s Washington event. We are currently promoting the tool to investors, engineers, operators, and fuel buyers so that they can use this data to compare suppliers on technical performance, economic viability, and carbon footprint. At this year’s Summit, we are excited to continue our work in energy efficiency and aviation as well as offer five new working tracks to identify specific pathways to accelerating deployment of renewable energy and clean-tech solutions. Of the emerging ideas this year, we at Carbon War Room are genuinely excited. We intend to commit budget for a project manager to take the strongest idea from one of these tracks and explore its potential. We want one of these tracks to be the next operation - whether it’s a partnership around a new plan or a completely new idea, we’re ready to move. Either way, Creating Climate Wealth is where it all starts for us with our partners.

2012 North America Working TRacks. Aviation & Renewable Jet Fuels. Energy Access. Energy Efficiency in the Built EnvironmenT. The Carbon Negative Economy – BIOCHAR. Sustainable Agriculture – Livestock. Waste Reduction & Recycling. Trucking & Fleet Efficiency. “I particularly liked that it left the bulk of time for moderated discussion and idea generation rather than a lecture/presentation style format.” Sean Patrick Neil, Managing Director, Transcend Equity Development Corp.

Speakers/co-chair section. Hilary mcmahon. Director of research, carbon war room. Barbara bramble. Chairman, roundtable of sustainable biofuels and senior advisor, national wildlife federation. Roberto smeraldi. Founder, amigos de terra – brazilian amazonia delegate benefits. 1. Exposure to the latest thinking from cutting-edge clean tech entrepreneurs. 2. Access to tools, technologies & new partnerships that emerge from the summit. 3. Access to capital providers & customers looking for cost-saving clean tech solutions.

Livestock Working Track Focus There are many causes of deforestation throughout the world, ranging from diseases and beetle infestations, to logging and agricultural activity. However, in the Brazilian Amazon, which encompasses more than 50% of the world’s remaining rainforest and represents the largest terrestrial carbon sink in the world, 80% of deforested land is used for cattle ranching (Presidencia da Republica do Brasil 2004). The outcome is clear: cattle ranching in Brazil is the single largest driver of deforestation in the world. Additionally, Brazil is projected to double their exports of beef and leather products by 2018, from 2008 levels, increasing their share of the world market, which is already 30% of such products traded internationally (MAPA 2009). Through the implementation of better land-use practices, ranchers could sustainably raise more cattle on the same land plots of land, instead of raising small herds on land that becomes degraded, necessitating expansion further into the Amazon. These changes however require an upfront investment, and some incentive for the ranchers to devote their time and efforts to such a project. At CCW, the key challenge that the group must assess is to determine how, and in what form, financing mechanisms will be developed that will allow for ranchers, investors, and the meatpacking industry to each receive a share of the added revenue that would result from the implementation of projects to improve the land-use practices of Amazonian cattle ranches, allowing for sustainable production at a higher capacity. The focus is to define how we can deploy the first $10-100 Million in capital to implement a moderate intensification project across Brazil. The Livestock working track will attack current market barriers to entry for existing innovative models and produces tangible solutions to overcoming the barriers and unlocking capital for the sector. We need your expertise to be at this working round table.

Climate Leadership Gala Washington DC, March 27 6-9.30pm Get your ticket to the 3rd annual Climate Leadership Gala. Presented by Earth Day Network in partnership with The Carbon War Room and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. This exclusive Gala will bring together leaders of industry, government and the NGO community to celebrate achievements, discuss how to remove impediments, and forge a path to a post-carbon future.

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