Catherine Lee Addresses Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiatives at Upcoming International Conferences

AUGUSTA, ME — Catherine A. Lee, managing director of Lee International and an expert in the developing market of greenhouse gas emissions trading, is scheduled to present at several upcoming climate change conferences on the status of individual, state and regional efforts in the U.S. to get greenhouse gas trading off the ground.

"There is a general assumption in the international community that there are no U.S. efforts to participate in emissions reduction and carbon credits trading programs due to the federal government's refusal to join the Kyoto Protocol," said Lee. "However, there are several significant and separate initiatives developing in the U.S."

Lee will be a featured speaker at "Pursuing Progress on Climate Change," a conference of the Environmental Markets Association, Canadian Chapter taking place November 30 - December 1 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Lee will speak on the status of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cooperative effort by Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states to reduce carbon dioxide emissions — a greenhouse gas that causes global warming.

She is also scheduled to present on a similar topic at a Dow Jones Europe conference on "Strategies for Emissions Trading," being held in Frankfurt, Germany on November 8 and 9, 2005.

In addition, Lee will present at “Strengthening Climate Cooperation, Compliance & Coherence,” an international law symposium on sustainable developments in law and policy on climate change, again in Montreal, on December 2 and 3, 2005 (see press release).

Lee International helps organizations benefit strategically and financially from emissions trading schemes with a focus on Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in developing countries. The firm provides a full complement of legal, regulatory and advisory services connecting sellers in Brazil, South Africa and China with buyers in Canada, EU and Japan, while monitoring emerging carbon trading programs in the United States.

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