PG&E Corporation’s core business is to provide safe, reliable, and environmentally responsible natural gas and electricity to approximately 15 million Californians. At PG&E, we are committed to minimizing the greenhouse gas emissions from our operations and empowering our customers to take action through energy efficiency, solar, and our innovative ClimateSmartTM program, which allows our customers to voluntarily become carbon neutral. PG&E is a charter member of the California Climate Action Registry and a founding reporter in The Climate Registry. We were also the first major investor-owned utility to support AB 32, and actively support mandatory national limits on greenhouse gases.

Barclays Capital, the Investment Banking division of Barclays Bank PLC, has been at the forefront of the emissions markets since the inception of the EU-ETS. Barclays Capital is one of the largest liquidity providers in the market, having traded over 3.5 Billion carbon allowances to date. Our dedicated emissions team specializes in finding bespoke trading strategies that enable our clients to fully leverage our commodity trading and risk management expertise to efficiently manage their carbon exposures.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) regulates privately owned electric, natural gas, telecommunications, water, railroad, rail transit, and passenger transportation companies, in addition to authorizing video franchises. The CPUC plays a key role in making California a national and international leader on a number of clean energy related initiatives and policies designed to benefit consumers, the environment, and the economy.

Hydrogen Energy California (HECA), a joint venture between BP and Rio Tinto, has proposed a new hydrogen-powered electricity generating facility in West Kern County that would capture and sequester 90% of its carbon emissions. This facility will transform solid fossil fuels into hydrogen that will be used to generate electricity for over 150,000 Californian homes. The HECA process will capture over 2 million tons of CO2 per year and sequester it deep underground.

SAIC is a FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering, and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure, and health.

We develop and implement practical, sustainable strategies at the nexus of water, waste, climate and energy.  These strategies take a systems approach to minimizing cost and optimizing outputs for compliance, risk management, and opportunity realization. For more information, visit www.saic.com.

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commissions’ mission is to provide our customers with high quality, efficient and reliable water, power and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care.

San Francisco's Environment Department is a collection of visionary environmental professionals who are dedicated to helping all San Francisco residents and businesses take an active role in protecting and enhancing their urban environment.

Southern California Edison, the nation’s leading purchaser of renewable energy, strives to meet the electricity needs of its customers in an environmentally responsible way.  Over the last five years, SCE customers have saved 6.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity through SCE’s energy-efficiency programs and services. In this period, these programs have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 3.4 million metric tons – the equivalent of removing 650,000 cars from the road.  To learn more, visit www.sce.com.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is at the forefront of climate protection efforts. The District adopted the nation’s first greenhouse gas fee and recently issued a permit for the nation’s first power plant with a limit on greenhouse gas emissions. The District has worked with local cities to complete greenhouse gas inventories. And in 2008, the District prompted greenhouse gas reduction projects by creating a $3 million grant fund to support innovative climate protection projects. The Bay Area Air District is currently updating its CEQA Guidelines which will establish thresholds for greenhouse gases regionally.

Blue Source helps business understand and engage in the carbon economy. Our projects reduce greenhouse gasses through methane management from coal mining, landfills and animal waste and industrial gas destruction. Blue Source’s extensive carbon sequestration experience includes carbon capture and geologic storage from industrial facilities and forest carbon sequestration. We invest in new emissions reduction projects as well as market offsets generated from our project portfolio. Please visit bluesource.com for more information.

The Air Resources Board is a department of the California Environmental Protection Agency. ARB’s mission is to promote and protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources through effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and considering effects on the economy. The ARB oversees all air pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain health based air quality standards.

As the world’s leading independent validator and verifi er of carbon projects, DNV brings that little extra to ensure confidence in your project: Deep technology expertise and wide experience of social, environmental and fi nancial aspects, combined with local presence. So you can land safely anywhere. DNV is a leading global provider of services for managing risk. Through our network of 300 offi ces in 100 countries, we take leadership through innovation and technology and non-compromising standards of quality and integrity.

Finite Carbon is the forest carbon development company that offers landowners a single-source, end-to-end solution to create and monetize carbon offsets. Combining unparalleled project-development experience with extensive carbon market knowledge, we offer the most comprehensive forest carbon project development and commercialization service in the United States. Finite Carbon’s unique in-house team of experts in forest carbon and finance has deep experience in the steps required to complete the forest carbon project process.

Hara helps organizations grow and profit while optimizing natural resource consumption and minimizing environmental impact. The Hara™ Environmental and Energy Management solution gives customers auditable transparency and control of their organizational metabolism – the collective resources consumed and expended by an organization – including energy, water, waste, carbon and other resources. Leading organizations use Hara solutions to manage their environmental record and leverage best practices in order to improve their operational efficiency, maximize shareholder value and manage risks.

IDEAcarbon is an independent provider of ratings, research and strategic advice on carbon finance. Our services are designed to provide leading financial institutions, corporations, governments, traders and developers with unbiased intelligence and analysis of the factors that affect the pricing of carbon assets. The IDEAcarbon teams are leading experts in the carbon and energy markets. We combine policy and carbon market analysis with proprietary tools for the analysis of carbon project credit risk. Our techniques assist our clients to manage and mitigate risk in today's uncertain global carbon markets.

NRG Energy, Inc., a Fortune 500 Company, is a wholesale energy provider that owns and operates one of the country’s largest and most diverse power generation portfolios. Headquartered in Princeton, NJ, NRG’s power plants supply more than 24,000 megawatts of generation capacity—enough to support more than 20 million homes. The Company’s fleet includes nuclear, wind and solar assets along with fossil fuel plants nationwide. More information is available at www.nrgenergy.com

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Ryerson, Master and Associates, Inc. (RMA), a member of the Lloyd's Register Group of entities, is a leading provider of climate change verification services across North America. Working with our LRQA affiliates, we offer you access to a suite of global climate change and Business Assurance services.

RMA is accredited by the Climate Action Reserve, the American National Standards Institute for The Climate Registry, and by the California Air Resources Board.

Our expertise includes: inventory development, validation, verification, preparing carbon footprints, carbon supply chain accounting, carbon reduction projects, climate action planning, and climate change adaptation.

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District was founded with the idea that providing electric power to Sacramento was a job best done by a public utility overseen by an elected Board of directors. For 60 years, we've done just that, providing Sacramento County (and a small part of Placer County) with a reliable source of electricity at competitive rates that are consistently lower than investor-owned utilities in the state. As the sixth largest publicly owned utility in the country in terms of customers served, our innovative energy programs are known throughout the state, nation and world. SMUD's purpose is to provide solutions for meeting our customers' electrical energy needs. Our vision is to be a leader in customer satisfaction and a positive force in promoting community benefits.

As the world's leading provider of business software, SAP delivers products and services that help accelerate business innovation for our customers. We believe that doing so will unleash growth and create significant new value – for our customers, SAP, and ultimately, entire industries and the economy at large. Today, customers in more than 120 countries run SAP applications – from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organizations.  As one of the leaders in business process solutions and recognized for our sustainability initiatives, SAP is well poised to help companies worldwide holistically manage their sustainability strategy and achieve new levels of business excellence.

Helping Companies Become Best-Run Businesses Our vision is for companies of all sizes to become best-run businesses. In today's challenging business environment, best-run companies have clarity across all aspects of their business, which allows them to act quickly with increased insight, efficiency, and flexibility. By using SAP solutions, companies of all sizes – including small businesses and midsize companies – can reduce costs, optimize performance, and gain the insight and agility needed to close the gap between strategy and execution. To help our customers get the most out of their IT investments so that they can maximize their business performance, our professionals deliver the highest level of service and support.  For more information, visit www.sap.com.

Standard & Poor’s is a leading credit rating agency with growing expertise in the area of carbon markets. The company has a history of providing global industries with a range of services, including analytics, forecasting and research.

Currently, Standard & Poor’s is working on several carbon-related initiatives. It has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with carbon analysts Point Carbon to investigate jointly developing carbon offset project risk assessment products and services. It is further exploring the possibility of providing products that may help to assess the underlying mechanisms which form the basis of financial structures that are under discussion as part of the mobilisation of private sector funds to achieve goals set under the Copenhagen Accord. Standard & Poor’s is also developing a sectoral analytical methodology to analyse carbon exposure that is intended to enhance its assessment of corporate creditworthiness. It already provides credit assessments and credit ratings for renewable energy projects. Its family of Carbon Efficient Indices aims to provide comparative data, information and analysis to the market participants, who appear to be increasingly aware of companies that are more carbon efficient and the potential impact this may have on their performance.

The Energy Foundation is a partnership of major donors interested in solving the world's energy problems. Our mission is to advance energy efficiency and renewable energy - new technologies that are essential components of a clean energy future.

An international consultancy, ENVIRON works with clients to help resolve their most demanding environmental and human health issues. We combine resources across geographic boundaries and technical and scientific disciplines to provide clients with the best, most responsive team—whether responding to existing challenges, evaluating opportunities to improve performance, or seeking to reduce future liabilities. Clients around the world benefit from our unique ability to bring clarity to issues at the intersection of science, business and policy.

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) manages the state's water resources in coordination with other agencies. Among DWR's many responsibilities are the State Water Project, flood management, statewide and regional water planning and management, dam safety, and public education. DWR joined the California Climate Action Registry (CCAR) in 2007, is a CCAR Climate Action Leader, and a member of the Governor's Climate Action Team.

Founded in 1984, Calpine is currently capable of delivering nearly 25,000 megawatts of clean, cost-effective, reliable and fuel-efficient electricity to customers and communities in 16 states in the United States and Canada. Calpine owns, leases and operates low-carbon, natural gas-fueled and renewable geothermal power plants. Using advanced technologies, Calpine generates electricity in a reliable and environmentally responsible manner for the customers and communities it serves. Please visit Calpine's website at www.calpine.com.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is the nation’s largest provider of treated drinking water. The district moves an average of 1.7 billion gallons of water per day through its six-county service area encompassing 5,200 square-miles in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego and Ventura counties. Established in 1928, Metropolitan imports water from Northern California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the Colorado River. Conservation, recycling and other local measures will be the ways of meeting the demands of an estimated 200,000 new southland residents every year. For Metropolitan, environmental stewardship has emerged as the key to water sustainability.

SDG&E is committed to working every day to deliver the energy our customers need. We’re also working hard to ensure reliable, environmentally responsible energy for today and tomorrow. As a regulated public utility, SDG&E provides safe and reliable energy service to 3.4 million consumers through 1.4 million electric meters and more than 840,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties. The utility’s area spans 4,100 square miles.

Royal Dutch Shell plc is incorporated in England and Wales, and has its headquarters in the Hague. We are a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies with over 100,000 employees in more than 100 countries and territories. Shell businesses include oil and gas exploration and production; production and marketing of Liquefied Natural Gas and Gas to Liquids; manufacturing, marketing and shipping of oil products and chemicals and alternative energies including biofuels and wind power. For further information, visit www.shell.com.

The Green Exchange venture is a partnership between CME Group, Evolution Markets, Constellation Energy, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, ICAP, JPMorganChase, Morgan Stanley, RNK Capital LLC, Spectron, TFS Energy, Tudor, and Vitol, to build an unprecedented global environmental marketplace. Futures are available on CME Globex and through CME ClearPort. Options are available through CME ClearPort and on the New York trading floor. All transactions benefit from the safeguards and standards provided by CME Group's respected and well-established clearinghouse.

Van Ness Feldman is a law and policy firm with one of the Nation’s largest and most diversified climate change and emissions trading practices.

In 2009, the Environmental Finance market survey rated Van Ness Feldman as one of the top two law firms for the global voluntary carbon market and for North American compliance carbon markets. The firm also represents the Coalition for Emission Reduction Projects.