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• AB 32 CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGIC ISSUES CONFERENCE

AB 32 CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGIC ISSUES CONFERENCE

Assembly Bill 32, the “Global Warming Solutions Act” (AB 32), is already impacting your business. All aspects of the residential, commercial, retail, and industrial real estate industry is impacted by the efforts to reduce GHG’s. From land-use to transportation planning to “green building” management, the landscape has changed. Is your company prepared to deal with the oncoming regulations?

Please join four major industry groups, including the California Chamber of Commerce, California Building Industry Association, California Business Properties Association, and American Council of Engineering Companies of California for a high level discussion and panel presentations on the implementation of AB 32, California’s 2006 Green House Gas (GHG) global warming solutions bill and its resulting impacts on our industry.

The AB 32 Session will be held in Sacramento this Thursday, October 2, and is FREE. Space is limited and attendance is on a first-come first-serve basis, so sign up now by responding to this email. Click here for the website. See below for a schedule of events:

Strategic Issues Conference Preliminary Schedule & Agenda
Sponsored by CBPA/CalChamber/CBIA/ACEC
1215 K Street, 14th Floor

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2008

8:30 a.m. Registration with Continental Breakfast (coffee, juice, bagels)

9:00 a.m. Introduction with Rex Hime, President and Chief Executive Officer, CBPA

9:05 a.m. Opening Session: Linda Adams, The Environmental Protection Agency Secretary

9:35 a.m. Panel Discussion #1: Scoping Plan/ Legislative & Administrative Panel Discussion

Speakers

• Shelly Sullivan, Executive Director, AB 32 Implementation Group
• Dorothy Rothrock, VP of Government Relations for CMTA
• James Goldstene, Executive Officer, CARB

Moderator

• Matthew Hargrove, Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs, CBPA

10:55 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. Panel Discussion #2: Land Use and AB 32 Discussion

Speakers

• Cynthia Bryant, Director of OPR
• Anna Shimko, Cassidy Shimko Dawson & Kawakami
• Diane De Felice, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Moderator

• Richard Lyon, Senior Legislative Advocate, CBIA

12:00 p.m. Keynote Luncheon: Mike Prosio, Office of the Governor, Deputy Legislative Secretary

1:15 p.m. Panel Discussion #3: Carbon Markets

Speakers

• Western Climate Initiative Contact
• Josh Margolis, CEO of CantorCO2e

Moderator

• Mark Smith, Legislative Advocate, ACEC California

2:35 p.m. Closing and Q&A: Rex Hime, President and Chief Executive Officer, CBPA

3:05 p.m. Travel Safe!