As part of the Transatlantic Climate Bridge Initiative, the Climate Institute, in cooperation with the German Embassy in Washington, invite you to join a discussion on emissions trading as a central policy instrument in reaching greenhouse gas reductions in Europe and Germany.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Matthias Lang, Partner, Environmental & Energy Law, ARQIS
Dr. Lang is a founding partner of ARQIS Rechtsanwälte in Düsseldorf. He mainly works on matters where public and commercial law intersect, including in particular environmental and energy matters. He frequently speaks and writes about energy law subjects. He is author of the section on the permitting of conventional power plants and wind farms in the new Berlin Commentary on Energy Law and has also published on emissions trading. He advises on energy transactions and also represents private and public sector clients in German and European administrative and court proceedings.

WELCOME BY
John Topping, President, Climate Institute
Friedo Sielemann, Counselor Environment & Energy, German Embassy

Germany, under the Kyoto Protocol, has committed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 21 percent by 2012 (below 1990 levels). A recent evalution by the German Environment Agency has shown that Germany already has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 28.7 percent between 1990 and 2009. The goal for 2020 is to decrease Germany’s CO to 40 percent below the 1990 baseline. To reach these targets, Germany employs a variety of climate policy tools, with emissions trading playing a key role emissions even further.

Two follow-up events will be held in Milwaukee and Chicago on the same topic on Tuesday 23. and Wednesday 24. March.

Please RSVP by Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 to:
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