Edited by Jaime Carlson, Bryan Garcia, Claire Jahns, Eric Roberts, and Katie Schindall of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, this book highlights major trends in the forest carbon markets and, in many cases, underscore the importance of policy to providing investment security.

Carbon Finance II: Investing in Forests for Climate Protection includes a Foreword by Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Director of the Yale Climate and Energy Institute.

Join James Cameron, Executive Director and Vice Chairman of Climate Change Capital, and Nancy Kontou, Head of Cabinet to EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas, in a conversation on the impending international climate negotiations in Copenhagen at COP 15.

The conversation will be moderated by Brad Gentry.

In July of 2008, Fast Company's Anya Kamenetz wrote an article entitled "Can Carbon Credits Slow Global Warming". This article highlighted Yale's idealistic forestry grads leading the way.

Risk management for forestry investors in carbon and other ecosystem services from forests is the business of ForestRe. Join Phil Cottle of ForestRe in this Carbon Finance Speaker Series presentation.

Sustainable Investing, highlights how an approach to investing driven by long-term environmental, economic and social factors could help finance a resurgent and more resilient global economy.

Laurie Wayburn, president of the Pacific Forest Trust, will discuss state and federal policy on forest carbon.

Join Edwin Aalders, Director of the International Emissions Trading Association, and Kate Hamilton, Carbon Project Manager at the Ecosystem Marketplace, in a conversation moderated by Brad Gentry.

Mark Tercek, president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy will discuss how environmental markets and finance can be used as tools to accelerate the protection of ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

Join the Maine Forest Service, Environment Northeast and the Gold Standard in discussing the process and challenges of developing new carbon markets in the U.S.

Point Carbon is a world-leading provider of independent news, analysis and consulting services for carbon markets.

Deborah Spalding, a Managing Partner of Working Lands Investment Partners, LLC, will provide an overview of what investors look for in deals to acquire forests and lands, from the structure of a transaction to risk-return expectations.

Mark Ashton, the Morris K. Jessup Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology and Director of the School Forests, will lead off this year's series with an historical overview of forestry and land use.