Register Now for ‘Carbon
Trading: Market Opportunities for Agriculture’ Workshop
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
A one-day training workshop, “Carbon Trading: Market Opportunities for
Agriculture,” will be held Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at the Carvel Research and
Education Center, University of Delaware in Georgetown, DE. The workshop
will be conducted through a remote broadcast from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
The workshop is designed to give agricultural educators a basic
understanding of the complexities of carbon trading, while providing them
with a set of tools to educate farmers and landowners. The workshop will
explore the development and current status of the complex and changing
carbon trading market. Carbon trading is a method to reduce global carbon
emissions by allowing market mechanisms to find the most cost-effective way
to do so using various sources.
This workshop is designed primarily for extension agents, soil conservation
district staff, USDA and ag-related state agency staff, non-profit
agricultural educators, landowners and farmers.
The workshop will include the following presentations by several experts:
Introduction to Cap & Trade and Agricultural Offsets; Agricultural Practices
and Carbon Offsets; Chicago Climate Exchange and Agricultural Offsets;
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and Carbon Credits and Whole Farm
Planning. Attendees will receive the Carbon Trading: Market Opportunities
for Agriculture Resource Guide.
Register online by May 6, 2008 at
http://agcarbontrading.org/ and select the Georgetown, DE location.
Registration is free and lunch will be provided to all participants at no
cost.
The workshop
will be hosted by the First State RC&D Council, the Maryland Eastern Shore
RC&D Council, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and the
University of Delaware Cooperative Extension. It is being presented by
Central New York Resource Conservation and Development, Inc. (CNY RC&D) with
funding from Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NESARE).
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