Environmental Banc & Exchange

Recent Speaking and Committee Activities

EBX is a key thought leader in the emerging environmental credit marketplace, and members of our team are regularly invited to share our expertise and experience at nationwide conferences and workshops. EBX also serve on key committees related to the mitigation marketplace. If you would like to know more about any of these topics or committees, please do not hesitate to contact us .

Below are some of our recent presentations and committee positions:

2007 Events

May 2007 Ecosystem Marketplace Panel: "From Carbon to Water Quality Trading - An Exploration of Trading, Dead Zones, and Water Quality"

April 2007 National Mitigation Banking Conference: "Status of Greenhouse Gas Initiatives with a Particular Emphasis on Carbon Offsets"; "Mitigation Banking in 2017 - Where Are We Headed?"

April 2007 United States Army Corps of Engineers Charleston District Sponsored Meeting: "How Can Bankers and Land Trusts Work Together to Achieve Conservation Goals?"

2006 Events

December 2006 Restore America's Estuaries' Conference: "Harnessing Environmental Markets with a Particular Focus on Wetland and Stream Mitigation Banking"

November 2006 USDA Region 8: "Tools to Secure Conservation Practices for Public Benefit"

October 2006 Environmental Protection and Resources Conservation Committee of the Peoples' Republic of China: "Environmental Credit Markets"

EPA Region 5 Training Workshop on Water Quality Trading
"Role of Third Party Providers in WQ Trading"

Stream Restoration in the Southeast: Accomplishments and Opportunities

National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration

National Land Conservation Conference

October Philanthropy Roundtable, "Great Debates in Environmental Policy and Philanthropy"

Second National EPA Water Quality Trading Conference in Pittsburgh, "Implementing Water Quality Trading at the Watershed Scale"

American Society of Highway Engineers

Maryland Watershed Network Conference, "The Environmental Credit Markets"

Committees – EBX is Serving

George Kelly has been appointed to serve on the Steering Committee of the National Mitigation Banking Association 2007 Conference Planning Group. He has also been invited to serve on the committee steering the Ecosystem Marketplace's "SpeciesBanking.com", an informational exchange about endangered species banking.