Sponsors | NACW 2012

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Linklaters LLP is a leading global law firm with over 2,500 attorneys in 19 countries recognized for its expertise in the areas of corporate and banking law, commodities and derivatives. Linklaters’ climate change practice includes more than 25 lawyers who advise on an ongoing basis governments, large US and EU emitters and the majority of the leading global investment banks. Our knowledge of the California and Quebec cap-and-trade programs is deep. We act regularly on transactions involving California instruments and have worked closely with industry and trade associations on the definition of positions on issues raised in recent ARB rulemakings.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation, is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, with 20,000 employees, the company delivers some of the nation’s cleanest energy to 15 million people in Northern and Central California. PG&E also offers customers a robust array of smart energy solutions that include award-winning energy efficiency, demand response, and solar programs and incentives. For more information, visit www.pge.com/environment.

Shell Oil Company is one of America’s leading oil and natural gas producers, natural gas marketers, gasoline marketers and petrochemical manufacturers. Shell, a leading oil and gas producer in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, is a recognized pioneer in oil and gas exploration and production technology. Shell Oil Company is an affiliate of the Shell Group, a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing approximately 102,000 people and operating in more than 110 countries and territories.

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For over 10 years, Blue Source has helped businesses understand and engage in the carbon economy through project development, financing and offset portfolio sales. Our projects reduce greenhouse gases in forestry, landfill, animal waste, industrial and agricultural sectors and can be found on all of North America’s leading offset registries. We provide engineering, consulting, finance and marketing services related to monetization of environmental attributes to clients in a number of industries for voluntary, pre-compliance and compliance purposes. Please visit bluesource.com for more information.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) serves the public interest by protecting consumers and ensuring the provision of safe, reliable utility service and infrastructure at reasonable rates, with a commitment to environmental enhancement and a healthy California economy. The CPUC regulates utility services, stimulates innovation, and promotes competitive markets, where possible, in the communications, energy, transportation, and water industries.

Chevron is one of the world's leading integrated energy companies, with subsidiaries that conduct business worldwide. The company is involved in virtually every facet of the energy industry. Chevron explores for, produces and transports crude oil and natural gas; refines, markets and distributes transportation fuels and lubricants; manufactures and sells petrochemical products; generates power and produces geothermal energy; provides energy efficiency solutions; and develops the energy resources of the future, including biofuels.

ClimeCo America Corp., recipient of the 2010 Climate Action Reserve CARROT award for extraordinary work in climate action, is a leader in low-carbon technology deployment. In cooperation with its strategic partners, ClimeCo provides comprehensive expertise in a full range of renewable energy and environmental technology projects. Bringing carbon market expertise together with comprehensive financing and project development, ClimeCo provides project owners with a start-to-finish solution, from envisioning the project to realizing real emission reductions and managing the entire process along the way.

Element Markets is the leading producer and marketer of renewable natural gas and environmental commodities in the U.S. Our broad base of experience across environmental segments gives us unmatched flexibility in meeting our clients’ greatest challenges. Our extensive resources and market knowledge allow us to rapidly identify and respond to evershifting market conditions to help our clients succeed in a complex, regulatory‐driven industry. As ecological energy and transportation fuel markets continue to evolve, Element Markets will lead the way, creating optimal value for our clients and stakeholders. More information available at www.elementmarkets.com

The Energy Foundation: Advancing new energy technologies that enable economic growth with dramatically less pollution. We are 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.

Based in San Francisco, EOS Climate is the leader in leveraging carbon markets to ensure the complete life cycle management of refrigerants. Our projects in the U.S. and around the world are preventing emissions of powerful greenhouse gases, while accelerating the transition to cutting edge sustainable technologies across multiple industrial, commercial, and consumer sectors. EOS launched the Refrigerant Revolution™ in January 2012, partnering with Fortune 500 leaders to manage refrigerants at end-of-life. In 2011, EOS was voted Best Offset Originator by Environmental Finance readers and won the Governor's Award for Economic and Environmental Leadership. www.eosclimate.com

The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a nonprofit business organization created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions. Our membership includes leading international companies from across the carbon trading cycle. IETA members seek to develop an emissions trading regime that results in real and verifiable greenhouse gas emission reductions, while balancing economic efficiency with environmental integrity and social equity. As of April 2011, IETA comprises more than 155 international companies from OECD and non-OECD countries. IETA currently has offices in Geneva (Switzerland), Brussels (Belgium), London (UK), Toronto (Canada), Melbourne (Australia) and US offices in Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA.

Markit is a leading, global financial information services company with over 2,300 employees. Markit’s Environmental business provides infrastructure and services to participants in the voluntary and regulated environmental markets. The Markit Environmental Registry lists the majority of leading standards and provides customers with a unique portfolio approach to managing all their carbon, water and biodiversity assets in one place. The Markit Auction Platform is a state of the art service for auctioning an array of financial assets and multiple types of environmental credits, including emission permits and water quality credits.

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 the Colorado River and Northern California through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Conservation, recycling and other regional measures will help meet the demands of Southern California’s growing population. For Metropolitan, environmental stewardship has emerged as the key to water sustainability.

NRG is a pioneer in developing cleaner and smarter energy choices for our customers: whether as one of the country’s largest solar power developers, by building the first privately funded electric vehicle charging infrastructure, or by helping customers better manage their energy use. Our diverse power generating facilities can support more than 20 million homes and our retail electricity providers—Reliant, Green Mountain Energy Company, and Energy Plus—serve more than two million customers.

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 & environment, health and cybersecurity. The company's approximately 41,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, other U.S. Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets. Headquartered in McLean, Va., SAIC had annual revenues of approximately $11 billion for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2011. For more information, visit saic.com. SAIC: From Science to Solutions®

As the nation’s sixth largest community-owned electric service provider, SMUD has been providing low-cost, reliable electricity for more than 65 years to Sacramento County (and a small portion of Placer County). SMUD is a recognized industry leader and award winner for its innovative energy efficiency programs, renewable power technologies, and for its sustainable solutions for a healthier environment. SMUD is the first large California utility to receive more than 20 percent of its energy from renewable resources. For more information, visit smud.org.

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The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is the public agency entrusted with regulating stationary sources of air pollution in the nine counties that surround the San Francisco Bay. The Air District is committed to protecting and improving public health, air quality and the global climate. In addition to regulatory efforts, the Air District is also engaged in incentive programs to protect the climate, reduce particulate pollution and promote cleaner transportation alternatives.

BGC Environmental Brokerage Services ("BGC EBS") is a leading global provider of brokerage services to the world’s environmental and renewable energy markets, offering transaction services, access to finance, advice, and technology to clients across the world. We specialize in emission, alternative energy and emerging environmental product markets. BGC EBS has offices in New York, San Francisco, Toronto and Los Angeles. We were named the top ERC Broker in a survey by Environmental Finance Magazine in 2011.

Capital Power (CPX:TSX) is a growth-oriented North American power producer headquartered in Alberta, Canada. Capital Power owns more than 3,300 megawatts of power generation capacity at 16 facilities across North America. An additional 487 megawatts of owned wind generation capacity is under construction.
Safely managing, operating and maintaining power generation facilities to maximize efficiency, productivity and reliability, while minimizing costs and reducing environmental impact, are at the core of Capital Power’s operational strategy. Capital Power actively participates in environmental commodity markets in Canada and the United States and is proud to be a market leader with comprehensive expertise in carbon offsets, carbon allowances, RECs and NOx/SO2 markets. Learn more about Capital Power’s environmental activities at www.capitalpower.com.

CE2 Carbon Capital, a joint-venture of CE2 Capital Partners and energy private equity investor Energy Capital Partners, is building a portfolio of carbon assets in North America. CE2 Carbon Capital finances and develops Projects across North America that reduce greenhouse gas emissions (“GHG”). It is also a leading investor in compliance-oriented carbon offsets and renewable energy credits created by such Projects.

NYSE Blue™ is a global company majority owned by NYSE Euronext.

NYSE Blue has an exclusive focus on the environmental markets and strongly believes in the ability of market mechanisms to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions. To this end, it builds market infrastructure and exchanges in world economies that are shaping their environmental market initiatives. This creates a significant engine for liquidity growth.

NYSE Blue has brought together APX, a leading provider of infrastructure and services to environmental sponsors and market participants, and BlueNext, a leading spot exchange for the European Emissions Trading System. This unique combination of environmental commodities infrastructure provider and a proven exchange allows NYSE Blue to offer end-to-end products and services for global environmental market participants.

Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) has been delivering clean, safe and reliable natural gas to its customers for 145 years. It is the nation's largest natural gas distribution utility, providing service to 20.9 million consumers connected through nearly 5.8 million meters in more than 500 communities. The company's service territory encompasses approximately 20,000 square miles throughout central and Southern California, from Visalia to the Mexican border. SoCalGas is a regulated subsidiary of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE).

SDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides safe and reliable energy service to 3.6 million consumers through 1.4 million electric meters and more than 850,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties. The utility’s area spans 4,100 square miles. SDG&E is committed to creating ways to help customers save energy and money every day. SDG&E is a subsidiary of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), a Fortune 500 energy services holding company based in San Diego.

The Climate Registry provides organizations with hands-on, personalized service and resources to help them measure, verify, report and manage their GHG emissions in a publicly transparent and credible way. The Registry was established in 2007 as a 501 (c)(3) by US states and Canadian provinces and today is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of senior officials from 40 US states, the District of Columbia, 13 Canadian provinces and territories, six Mexican states and four Native Sovereign Nations. The Registry has more than 440 members who use The Registry’s services to measure and manage their emissions, as well as share policy information and best practices in carbon management. www.theclimateregistry.org

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare, science and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 55,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI).

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Founded in 2004, TerraPass Inc. works directly with developers of greenhouse gas reduction projects to bring to market renewable energy and independently-verified carbon offsets. TerraPass manages a portfolio of more than 20 emissions reduction projects across the United States, primarily focused on waste-to-energy.

With projects registered under the Climate Action Reserve and the Verified Carbon Standard, the company is an award-winning provider of carbon offsets and serves both voluntary and compliance buyers.

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