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VerdeXchange Green Marketmakers Conference
On January 26, 2009, engage with leading technology, energy, and regulatory "green marketmakers" who are proactively responding to California's market-defining initiatives for addressing climate change and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As outlined in Assembly Bill 32 (signed into law 2006), California's 2005 Executive Order and a 2004 CARB regulation to reduce passenger car GHG emissions, California's efforts aim to reduce GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and below 1990 levels by 2050 - reductions of 25 percent and 80 percent respectively. These initiatives will undoubtedly shape the national and international markets.
Listen to Mary Nichols, California Air Resources Chair
Download the text version of the Mary Nichols Voice-over
The upcoming January VerdeXchange 2009 Conference in Los Angeles' Downtown Marriott builds off the highly successful GreenXchange Global Marketplace Conference held last December at Los Angeles' Century Plaza.
Featured speakers
 Mary Nichols California ARB Chair |
 Norm Mineta Former US Transportation Secretary |
 Michael Kantor Partner, Mayer Brown LLP Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce |
 Earl Blumenauer US Congressman |
 Junichi Ihara Consul General of Japan in Los Angeles |
 David Nahai LADWP, President & CEO |
 Bob Hertzberg G24i, Chairman |
 Gina Marie Lindsey LAWA, General Manager |
 Allan Emkin PCA Managing Partner |
 Jeff Kightlinger MWD General Manager |
 Bill Lockyer California State Treasurer |
 Bill Allen LAEDC, President and CEO |
 John Pérez CA Assemblymen |
 John Shegerian CEO Electronic Recyclers |
 Carol Liu State Senator |
 Richard Katz Metro Commissioner |
 Larry Eisenberg Los Angeles Community College District |
 Fran Pavley State Senator |
 Alan Lowenthal State Senator |
 Michael Peevey CPUC, President |
 Davis Guggenheim Director & Executive Producer "An Inconvenient Truth" |
 Michelle Kydd Lee Creative Artists Agency |
 Tom Soto Managing Partner Craton Equity |
 David Fransen Consul General of Canada Los Angeles |
 Kevin Ratner Forest City Development |
 James C. Hankla President Long Beach Board of Harbor Comissioners |
 Cecilia V. Estolano Chief Executive Officer CRA/LA |
 Leonard E. Robinson Federal Liaison California Environmental Protection Agency Department of Toxic Substances Control |
 Tadashi Maeda Director General Japan Bank for International Cooperation Energy and Natural Resources Finance Department |
 Honorable Quentin L. Kopp California High Speed Rail Authority, Chairman |
 Tim Sexton Founder & CEO, The Sexton Company Co-Founder, E2 in Southern California |
 Adam Procell AECOM Energy Vice President, National Director of Energy Efficiency & Carbon Management |
 Yoshiyuki Kasai Chairman Central Japan Railway Company |
 Gary Gero President California Climate Action Registry |
 Laura Spanjian Assistant Geneneral Manager for External Affairs San Francisco Public Utilities Commission |
