Sponsors
A limited number of sponsorship opportunities are available at The Wall Street Green Trading Summit. The event is an excellent branding opportunity for companies interested in raising their profile with institutional investors, family offices, traders, investment bankers, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists eager to learn more about financial opportunities in environmental markets.
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 | Morrison & Foerster LLPwww.mofo.com
Dedicated, Experienced Advisors—Cutting-Edge Expertise
Morrison & Foerster has been advising the leading innovators in the world of Cleantech for more than 30 years. During this time, we have represented a broad range of investors, emerging companies, and established companies developing new technologies and pioneering new approaches to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and sustainably use water and other natural resources. Morrison & Foerster’s Cleantech attorneys are dedicated to representing clients in these evolving industries, and we combine our knowledge of the underlying science, technologies, and regulations to offer counsel with the depth and expertise needed to succeed. For example:
Since the oil crisis of the 1970s, we have been involved in the energy and alternative energy sectors, helping clients create, conserve, and connect to the grid.
With the former General Counsel of the EPA and other environmental specialists on our team, we have led clients through the creation of new technologies, infrastructures, markets, and regulatory regimes.
Our intellectual property practice and plant specialists have been taking an active and leading role in helping visionaries find new uses for plant material, silicon, and other resources, and pushing forward the new technologies and sustainable practices that benefit us all.
Our global presence—over 1,000 lawyers in 18 key financial and technology centers around the world—allows us to provide both substantive expertise and unique practical insights in domestic and cross-border financing, transactional, and regulatory matters.
Advising clients in this evolving sector requires decades of experience and depth in all of the practice areas that are key to Cleantech, including energy, environmental, water, litigation, private equity and venture capital, intellectual property, and project development. We also have relevant experience working with companies in the industries that comprise Cleantech, including BioFuels; Carbon or Greenhouse Emissions and Carbon Sequestration; Clean Conventional/Fossil Fuels; Fuel Cells and Batteries; Green Building; Renewable Resources; Sustainability or Green Programs; Waste Reduction; and Water Investments.
Our Cleantech practices demonstrate the breadth of our capabilities in virtually every area of law. While many law firms focus on a few of these areas, we serve the full spectrum of Cleantech legal needs.
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 | The Green Exchangewww.greenfutures.com
NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:NMX), the parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (NYMEX), the world's largest physical commodity futures and options exchange, toghether with partners Evolution Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc., Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, Tudor Investment Corp., ICAP and Constellation Energy, in December 2007, announced the formation of The Green Exchange™ venture. The new exchange will offer a comprehensive range of environmental futures, options, and swaps contracts for markets focused on solutions to climate change, renewable energy, and other environmental challenges.
The Green Exchange products are expected to begin trading during the first quarter of 2008 and will be cleared by NYMEX. The Green Exchange venture is expected to launch as a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)-regulated exchange during the first quarter of 2009, pending regulatory approval.
Initially, The Green Exchange intends to offer trading in global carbon-based contracts, such as carbon allowances (EUAs) under the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, carbon credits (CERs) under the U.N. Clean Development Mechanism, and verified greenhouse gas emission reductions (VERs/VCUs) used in accordance with voluntary carbon standards. The Green Exchange will also offer contracts for U.S. SO2 and NOx emissions allowance trading programs, as well as contracts for national Green-e™ certified voluntary renewable energy certificates (RECs).
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 | Evolution Marketswww.evolutionmarkets.com
Evolution Markets Inc. provides strategic financial and industry-leading transactional services to participants in global environmental markets and the clean energy sector. The company has become the green markets leader, leveraging its unrivaled experience and knowledge on behalf of participants in the global carbon, U.S. emissions, renewable energy, weather derivative, and coal, natural gas, nuclear fuel, and biofuels markets. Evolution Markets has facilitated more than $50 billion in environmental transactions, including many landmark environmental trades such as the first EUA allowance trade, first trade of Kyoto carbon allowances, first CER option, first RGGI carbon offset trade, and first trades of renewable energy credits in several key states. The company has been continually recognized for excellence in serving environmental markets, including being named “Best Broker” for North American Carbon Markets, US Renewable Energy Markets, European Carbon Markets, and Kyoto Project Credits in Environmental Finance magazine’s annual industry survey. In addition to its industry leading brokerage services, Evolution Markets also provides merchant banking services to the clean energy sector and environmental markets through its subsidiary, Evolution Markets Financial Services LLC, which is a member of FINRA, SIPC. www.evomarkets.com |
 | Alston & Bird LLPwww.alston.com
Alston & Bird has a long tradition of advising clients in the energy and technology sectors and the closely linked areas of intellectual property, venture capital, project development and carbon finance. Alston & Bird has one of the nation’s strongest clean energy practices where our attorneys and policy advisers help pioneers in the clean energy space navigate the sector’s continuously evolving legal developments. Members of the Alston & Bird clean energy team include two former Senate Majority Leaders, the founder of the North American Carbon Capture and Storage Association, the former Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs at the American Wind Energy Association, and the former general manager of CO2 at Shell International.
Founded in 1893, Alston & Bird has offices in Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, New York, the Research Triangle in North Carolina and Washington, D.C. The firm's 800 attorneys provide a full range of services to domestic and international clients conducting business around the world. We have been ranked by FORTUNE magazine as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" for the ninth year in a row. The BTI Client Relationship Scorecard has named Alston & Bird among its "Power Elite” for the third year in a row. |
 | Orion Energy Systemswww.oriones.com
It's in our DNA to create - founded in 1996, Orion Energy Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and implements energy management systems, consisting primarily of high-performance, energy efficient lighting systems and controls and related services, for commercial and industrial customers without compromising their quantity or quality of light.
Orion has never stopped inventing advanced energy saving technologies and finding new ways to make them profitable to our customers.
Orion’s holistic approach provides you with tightly integrated proprietary energy management systems, patented technology, and the intellectual know-how that gives you the means to solve your pressing energy problems.
Orion's advanced technology platforms and bundled services eliminate technological and financial risks - energy and monetary savings are guaranteed before the project starts.
More than 2,100 facilities in North America have installed our systems, including 90 of the Fortune 500.
www.oriones.com Nasdaq: OESX
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 | ImageTree Corporationwww.imagetreecorp.com
ImageTree is “the precision forestry company,” providing accurate and consistent assessment of forest assets that significantly improves timberland management practices and investor returns. Its patented process, which combines remote sensing, automated software, and advanced mathematics and analysis, enables superior economic, environmental and sustainable-forest decision making by forest landowners and managers, based on site-specific data – rather than blanket decisions for an entire forest or even a stand of trees. Using ImageTree technology, these stakeholders, which include TIMOs and REITs, can eliminate the price-to-market gap driven by inaccurate inventories, maximize returns and be responsible environmental stewards.
ImageTree’s ForestSenseTM inventory platform provides precise, timely and cost-effective inventory for forest management. Leveraging the best in remote-sensing technology and timber-cruising methodologies, ImageTree can reduce a typical five-year inventory-cycle time up to 80 percent.
The ForestSense platform also facilitates the accurate calculation of carbon biomass sequestered at both the stand and the forest level through the use of biomass conversion equations. These equations generate an output in metric tons of CO2, which is the basis upon which carbon credits can be issued, and enable ImageTree customers to achieve additional financial rewards for sustainably managing their forests
The company has academic relationships with the Forest Nutrition Cooperative based at North Carolina State University, Virginia Tech and the Universidad de Concepción (Chile); University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources; Yale University’s Global Institute for Sustainable Forestry; and the Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry and Consumer Sciences at West Virginia University. Leading environmental nonprofit The Conservation Fund is a both a strategic investor in and a customer of ImageTree.
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 | APXwww.apx.com
APX is the leading infrastructure provider for environmental markets in renewable energy and greenhouse gases including carbon commodities. As a
bank and mint for environmental commodities, the APX Environmental Market Depository(tm) is trusted to create, track, manage, and retire renewable energy certificates (RECs), energy efficiency and conservation
certificates, carbon offset credits, and emission allowances. The company is the system of choice for every major renewable energy market in North America and greenhouse gas markets worldwide. Users of these
systems include the largest environmental commodity brokers, marketers, corporations, and government organizations. For more information visit www.apx.com or contact 408.517.2100. |
 | ICAPwww.icap.com
ICAP is the world's largest interdealer broker with an average daily transaction volume in excess of $700 billion, more than 50% of which is electronic. The Group is active in the wholesale markets for OTC derivatives, fixed income securities, money market products, foreign exchange, emissions, energy, credit and equity derivatives. ICAP plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (IAP.L) and joined the FTSE 250 Index in March 2001.
With more than 200 staff across its offices worldwide, ICAP Energy is the energy-focused commodity arm of ICAP plc, providing coverage of base and precious metals, carbon emissions, EPA and regional emissions, renewable energy credits, crude oil and oil products, electricity, natural gas, coal, freight and weather derivatives. ICAP Energy is a leading energy broker with operations in London, Amsterdam, Bergen, Madrid, Singapore, Sydney and seven centers in North America. Please visit www.icapenergy.com for more information.
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 | Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLPwww.brownrudnick.com
Brown Rudnick is an international law firm with a global network of offices in the United States and Europe.
Our Climate & Energy Group is comprised of an interdisciplinary team of
attorneys and professionals who specialize in matters involving renewable
energy project development and finance, emissions reduction schemes (e.g.
NOx, SO2, RECs, RGGI, EU-ETS and Kyoto Protocol) and alternative energy
sources.
The Climate & Energy Group is unique in its approach to the carbon and renewable markets. By combining seasoned professionals across a spectrum of related disciplines -- energy and environmental law, project and structured finance, regulatory compliance, U.S. and EU emissions trading regimes, renewable energy, intellectual property, venture capital, and government law & strategies -- the team is able to provide fully integrated solutions to participants in the growing carbon and renewable marketplace.
Working with consultants, project developers, energy finance, trading and
investment specialists and equipment suppliers, Brown Rudnick advises on
project development and finance, renewable portfolio standards, risk
management, and regulatory and financial aspects of emissions trading
schemes. In addition, the Group formulates innovative strategies and creates
structured products, derivatives and financing programs in the alternative energy and climate change space that are both cutting edge and commercially viable, including Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects and the monetization of EU Emissions Allowances. |
 | Nord Poolwww.nordpool.com
Nord Pool ASA is the largest power derivatives exchange and the only exchange to provide trade in emissions allowances (EUAs) and carbon credits (CERs). The company has more than 400 members from 20 countries across a wide range of energy producers and consumers, as well as financial institutions. Nord Pool ASA embraces the wholly-owned Nord Pool Clearing ASA and Nord Pool Consulting AS subsidiaries. It is jointly owned by the transmission system operators (TSOs) Svenska Kraftnät and Statnett. The company has offices in Lysaker (Oslo), Stockholm, Helsinki and Amsterdam. For more information, please visit www.nordpool.com. |
 | PA Consulting Groupwww.paconsulting.com
PA Consulting Group is a leading management & technology consulting firm. Operating worldwide with offices in more then 35 countries, PA draws on the knowledge and experience of 3,000 people, whose skills extend from the initial generation of ideas, insights and solutions all the way through to detailed implementation. We work across the private and public sectors in a wide range of industries including the Energy and Oil & Gas sectors. Representative experience includes: financial advisory services, regulatory development and implementation, energy trading and risk management, due diligence, asset management, strategic alignment, business and governance frameworks and pricing policy formulation. PA has been at the forefront of the environmental changes affecting the energy industry with a team of experts dedicated to developing strategy, forecasting, assessing regulations and preparing organizations for the changing world. |
 | DNVwww.dnv.com
DNV Climate Change Services NA can assist companies, organizations and
governments in their efforts to mitigate GHG emissions and establish voluntary programs and maintain country specific regulations. As a market leader in third party certification, DNV certifies under the California Climate Action Registry, the Chicago Climate Exchange and many other registries and protocols worldwide. DNV is an international foundation, established in 1864, with the primary objective to safeguard life, property, and the environment, and operates in more than 100 countries. |
 | Natsource LLCwww.natsource.com
Natsource LLC is a leading emissions and renewable energy asset management firm. The company's Asset Management, Transaction Services and Advisory and Research Services business units utilize their regulatory, market and trading expertise to assist private firms around the world in the strategic management of environmental risk, and to provide superior returns to investors by taking advantage of opportunities in local, regional, and global emissions and renewable energy markets. Natsource is headquartered in New York and has offices in Calgary, La Paz, London, Panama City, Ottawa, Tokyo and Washington, DC, providing the company with global reach and proximity to many of the world's leading financial centers. |
 | Chicago Climate Exchangewww.chicagoclimateexchange.com
Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), launched in 2003, is the world’s first and North America’s only active voluntary, legally binding integrated trading system to reduce emissions of all six major greenhouse gases (GHGs), with offset projects worldwide.
CCX Members are leaders in greenhouse gas (GHG) management and represent all sectors of the global economy, as well as public sector innovators. Reductions achieved through CCX are the only reductions made in North America through a legally binding compliance regime, providing independent, third party verification by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA, formerly NASD). The founder, Chairman and CEO of CCX is economist and financial innovator Dr. Richard L. Sandor, who was named a Hero of the Planet by Time Magazine in 2002 for founding CCX, and in 2007 as the "father of carbon trading."
CCX emitting Members make a voluntary but legally binding commitment to meet annual GHG emission reduction targets. Those who reduce below the targets have surplus allowances to sell or bank; those who emit above the targets comply by purchasing CCX Carbon Financial Instrument® (CFI™) contracts. |
 | World Energy Solutionswww.worldenergy.com
World Energy Solutions (TSX: XWE) operates leading online exchanges for energy and green commodities. Our World Energy Exchange transacts electricity, natural gas, fuels, and green power and our World Green Exchange transacts renewable energy certificates and greenhouse gas emissions credits.
Our advanced platform hosts transactions on the exchanges’ virtual marketplaces, utilizing a variety of electronic tools, including forward and reverse auctions, and post-and-respond mechanisms. We support our proven, award-winning platform with deep market expertise, a rigorous end-to-end process, and exceptional data management capabilities.
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 | Sungard Kiodexwww.kiodex.com
A Web-based trading and risk management solution for commodities traders, Kiodex integrates deal capture and risk management capabilities with valuation models and independent market data. Banks, FCMs, hedge funds and corporations with exposure to commodity prices use Kiodex to help measure risk, design optimal trading strategies, improve price execution, manage positions, process trades and comply with financial reporting and regulatory best practices. Visit SunGard’s Kiodex at www.sungard.com/kiodex.
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 | Tiburon Clean Energywww.tiburonenergy.com
Tiburon Clean Energy is a division of Tiburon Energy Systems and is in the business of verifying, monetizing, and transacting renewable energy and energy efficiency and their associated environmental attributes (CO2, SO2, NOx and other emissions) in the form of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), Energy Efficiency Certificates (EECs) and Carbon Dioxide Credits in mandated, voluntary and exchange markets. In addition, Tiburon helps design, develop and manage corporate Greenhouse Gas (GHG) programs.
The Tiburon team has been recognized as a leading verifier and marketer of EECs in the United States. The very first transaction of EECs in the US in the beginning of 2007 was implemented on behalf of the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company by two of the principals of the Tiburon team. Since that very first transaction, the Tiburon team has been engaged by several Fortune 500 companies to create EECs from their energy conserving products and projects.
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 | EnerNOC, Inc.www.enernoc.com
EnerNOC, Inc. is a leading developer and provider of clean and
intelligent energy solutions to commercial, institutional, and
industrial customers, as well as electric power grid operators and
utilities. EnerNOC's technology-enabled demand response and energy
management solutions help optimize the balance of electric supply and
demand. The Company uses its Network Operations Center, or NOC, to
remotely manage and reduce electricity consumption across a network of
commercial, institutional, and industrial customer sites and make demand
response capacity and energy available to grid operators and utilities
on demand. For more information visit www.enernoc.com.
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 | Van Eckwww.vaneck.com
Founded in 1955, Van Eck Associates Corporation was among the first U.S. money managers helping investors achieve greater diversification through global investing. Today the firm continues the 50+ year tradition by offering global investment choices in hard assets, emerging markets, precious metals including gold, and other specialized asset classes.
Market Vectors exchange-traded products have been offered by Van Eck Global since 2006 when the firm launched the nation’s first gold mining ETF. Today, Market Vectors ETFs and ETNs span several asset classes, including equities, municipal bonds and currency markets.
Van Eck Global also offers mutual funds, insurance trust funds, separate accounts and alternative investments. Designed for investors seeking innovative choices for portfolio diversification, Van Eck Global’s investment products are often categorized in asset classes having returns with low correlations to those of more traditional U.S. equity and fixed income investments.
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 | EcoSecuritieswww.ecosecurities.com
EcoSecurities is a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing
and trading emission reductions worldwide. With over 10 years of
experience in the international carbon market, EcoSecurities is a world
leader in generating carbon credits from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
reduction projects. The company owns one of the largest, most diverse
portfolios of high quality carbon credits in the industry, featuring market
milestones such as the first Kyoto project to be registered by the UN and
the first project to receive Certified Emission Reductions. EcoSecurities
projects include landfill gas capture and utilization, renewable energy,
agricultural and urban waste management, industrial efficiency, and
forestry.
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 | Point Carbonwww.pointcarbon.com
Point Carbon is a world-leading provider of independent news, analysis and consulting services for European and global power, gas and carbon markets. Point Carbon's comprehensive services provide professionals with market-moving information through monitoring fundamental information, key market players and business and policy developments. Point Carbon's in-depth knowledge of power, gas and CO2 emissions market dynamics positions us as the number one supplier of unrivalled market intelligence on these markets. Our staff includes experts in international and regional climate policy, mathematical and economic modeling, forecasting methodologies, risk management and market reporting. Point Carbon now has more than 15,000 clients, including the world's major energy companies,
financial institutions, organizations and governments, in over 150 countries. Reports are translate from English into Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Polish, French, Spanish and Russian.
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