Carbon Meetings 2014 - İstanbul Carbon Summit: CARBON MANAGEMENT, TECHNOLOGIES & TRADE

Istanbul Carbon Summit-Youth Commission 2014
President
BEYLA Alpay University of Edinburgh
Members
ATAY Ceylanpınar Istanbul Technical University
ÖZTOPRAK Elif Istanbul Technical University
YÜCE Reyhan Istanbul Technical University
ÇİFTÇİ Ömer Yalova University
Vision
The core vision of the commission is to be the world's solely international student platform in which current and prospective post-graduate students, which are studying or planning to study on developing new and advance mitigation and adaptation measures, techniques and policies against undesirable effects of global climate change issue, will share and transfer their knowledge and experience with other commission members.
Mission
The main mission of the commission is to help and support governmental and private sector stakeholders, which are working and studying on the mitigation and adaptation measures, techniques and policies against indisputable consequences of climate change, through delivering considerable and applicable science and policy alternatives.
Commission Structure
The Youth Commission will consist of two sub-working/discussion groups: Climate Change Science and Climate Change Policy. Each sub-group is going to have one group-leader and both will be in charge of moderating their group-sessions, collecting and delivering discussion outcomes at the end of each session. Both group-leaders will be supported and controlled by the Chairman of the Youth Commission.
Chairman of the Youth Commission is going to be in charge of assuring the conditions for all of the participants to achieve highest benefit out of the sessions and delivering the Youth Manifest based on the outcomes of both working-groups.
Hot Topics for Istanbul Carbon Summit-Youth Commission 2014
Climate Change Science Sub-Working/Discussion Group:
Outcomes of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)-WGI and WGIII (scheduled to be completed in April 2014)
Pioneers in renewable energy: Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), Commercial Wave Power, Off-grid solutions
Carbon sequestration: Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
Climate Change Policy Sub-Working/Discussion Group:
Outcomes of United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference of Parties (COP19) Warsaw 2013
Track towards 2015 Global Climate Agreement, simulation of COP 20 Peru 2014: Why is it so difficult to negotiate a new international climate change policy framework?
Further discussions on pros and cons of different climate change mitigation policy alternatives: market-based, price and hybrid instruments.
KEY REASONS TO ATTEND THE SUMMIT
Understand the full potential of new carbon schemes; NMMs (new market mechanisms) and green climate fund (GCF)
Learn from insightful discussion on the regional and global carbon markets
Identify the potential of budding emerging carbon markets
Question internationally acclaimed market experts during interactive panel discussions
Hear about new carbon mitigation opportunities in land use and management such as forestry, agriculture
Network and explore business opportunities with global carbon market actors
Develop your strategy in new low-carbon era for climate policy and carbon markets
Re-define your corporate risk management from a climate change perspective
Learn about fostering new PPP-Public Private Partnership options with new climate finance mechanisms
TARGET GROUP OF THE SUMMIT
Renewable Energy Companies (Solar, Wind, Bio Mass, Hydro)
Power Generation Companies
National and Local Governments
Public Offices
Universities and Research Institutes
NGOs
Research and Training Institutes Industry Associations
Iron and Steel Industry
Cement and Allied Industries
Power and Energy Distributors
Multinationals & Manufacturing Companies
Bilaterals and International Development Organizations
Entrepreneurs & SMEs
Banks and Financial Institutions
Carbon Funds and Investors
Carbon Market Advisory Firms
Credit Rating Agencies Consultants
Project Validators & Verifiers
Carbon Market Exchanges
Carbon Credit Buyers and Sellers
Trading Houses & Brokerage Firms