Carbon Reduction Project Development & Finance

Carbon Reduction Project Development & Finance is the first event to assemble experienced carbon market players, developers and financiers from throughout the world to share their insights into developing, certifying and financing profitable GHG emission reduction projects. Learn how to take advantage of the burgeoning opportunities in both international and US markets.

Carbon markets are exploding! Beyond the Kyoto-based compliance markets overseas, between 2005 and 2006 the OTC voluntary markets that comprise the bulk of activity in the US grew 200%-and this growth is expected to continue. What all these markets have in common is the need to originate carbon credits via many types of projects, creating huge opportunities for project developers. However, not all GHG reduction projects are created-and certified-equally, and the differences can produce an order of magnitude variance in the potential revenue flow from carbon reduction streams.

Carbon Reduction Project Development & Finance assembles the most experienced carbon market players, developers and financiers from throughout the world to share their insights into navigating through the complexities of developing, certifying and financing profitable GHG emission reduction projects. It will bring together leading carbon funds, carbon originators and aggregators, energy companies, clean tech companies, private equity and project developers to explore how to take advantage of carbon revenue flows in methane capture, renewable energy, geologic capture and other carbon reduction projects in both overseas and the nascent US markets.

Attendees will not only hear about the latest opportunities for project developments in the North American and global carbon markets, but will also be provided an outstanding opportunity to network with players in carbon project development field and to accurately gauge the current pulse of the financing market.

You'll get detailed discussions and analysis of:

• The end-to-end process for developing carbon emission reduction projects


• How to build financial models and structures for profitable carbon emission reduction projects


• Practical examples of projects representing some of today's biggest development opportunities, including renewable energy and agricultural, coalmine and oilfield methane capture

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NaturalNano teams up on nano cosmetics research

NaturalNano, Inc. (OTCBB:NNAN) (FWB:N3N) is a nanomaterials company developing proprietary technologies and processes to provide novel properties for a wide range of applications. Such applications include industrial polymers, plastics and composites; and additives to cosmetics, agricultural, and household products. NaturalNano holds over twenty issued or pending patents and proprietary know-how for extraction and separation processes, of halloysite and other nanotubes, in combination with other materials

Materials science company NaturalNano has announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with the US Naval Research Laboratory to develop a broad spectrum of controlled-release nanomaterials, a number of which will touch on both cosmetic and fragrance products.

The agreement covers ten patents that will also affect other areas, including agriculture, electronics and local drug delivery.

"This agreement is a great milestone for us," said Cathy Fleischer, president and chief technical officer of NaturalNano.

"It represents another step in our strategic plan to commercialize products across a diverse range of markets and to solidify our position as a leader in advanced nanomaterials."

The agreement means that NaturalNano can tap into the US Naval Laboratory's extensive expertise in the field of nanotechnology research, which incorportates the Nanoscience Institute - established in 2001 to conduct multidisciplinary research within this area.

The company currently has more than 25 patents or pending applications for control-released nanomaterials, which it either exclusively owns or has licensed out.

The company's research and development has focused on nanotubes, including naturally occurring nanotubes found in halloysite (HNT), which have a unique hollow-tube structure that allows chemicals, additives or other materials to be placed inside the tubes, creating a slow or controlled release of the materials.

For cosmetic and toiletry products, the development of nanomaterials for formulations has proved particularly useful to improve the efficacy of sunscreen, anti-aging products and fragrances.

NaturalNano's technology should prove particularly useful for sunscreen products as it allows for the slow release of active ingredients, allowing the product to last longer.

It is also useful in anti-aging formulations, as the technology enables the smaller particles to penetrate deeper into the skin's dermal layers, allowing for greater and longer-lasting efficacy.

For fragrance products nanotechnology has proved useful in the development of scents with time-controlled release, which means they can last longer and be used to maintain a more constant odor, as opposed to one that is strong immediately after application, but then evaporates quickly.

The inventory on nano-based consumer products, compiled by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Centers, was updated earlier this month, with health and beauty coming out as one of the biggest product categories to use nanotechnology.

It revealed that the number of personal care products using nanotechnology has risen to 85 from 58 when it was launched in March 2006. The cosmetic product count, which the center differentiates from personal care products, rose also to 89 from 75 and sunscreens to 27 from 18.

With The Nanotech Report: 4th Edition, by Lux Research, indicating that the market for nanotechnology manufactured goods is set to be worth $2.6 trillion by the year 2015, all the indications are that this is an area that is set to boom in the coming years.

About Natural Nano.

Company Overview

Founded in 2004 in Rochester, New York, NaturalNano, Inc. develops unique and proprietary processes for refining naturally occurring nanotubes and other nanomaterials that add competitive properties to a range of applications. The Company's near-term goal is to make commercial quantities of high-quality naturally occurring nanotubes -- along with licenses based on the Company's proprietary technologies -- available for a wide variety of uses. We have identified multiple applications including applications in engineered plastics and polymers, electronic components, cosmetics and other personal care products. Patents have been filed covering numerous commercial applications, and additional patents are pending for processing and classification technologies being developed by NaturalNano that are related to the nanotubes found in halloysite clay.

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Nobel :German Scientist Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize

The Nobel Prize
Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and a cash award

In the picture :Gerhard Ertl of Germany who won the Nobel Chemistry Prize poses for a photo at the Fritz-Haber-Institute in Berlin on his 71st birthday, 10 Oct. 2007

The 2007 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Gerhard Ertl of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. Kevin Billinghurst has the story from Stockholm.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honors Professor Ertl for his groundbreaking studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces.

He is credited with creating a methodology for demonstrating how different experimental procedures can be used to provide a complete picture of a surface reaction, observing how individual layers of atoms behave on the extremely pure surface of a metal.

Professor Gunnar von Heijne of the Academy of Sciences explains the importance of Ertl's work.

"From high school we tend to think of chemical processes as happening in water or perhaps in a gas, but in fact a whole lot of scientifically very interesting and practically important chemistry happens on solid surfaces," he noted. "Think of iron rust, think of catalytic converters on the exhaust pipes of our cars, think of technologies such as fuel cells. Gedrhard Ertl's scientific insights have laid a firm foundation for modern surface chemistry, and his careful methodological approach has become a model for both academic research and for industrial process development."

Nobel science prizes are given for contributions to basic understanding of nature, but Professor Ertl's work also has practical environmental applications. He has studied the process by which nitrogen can be extracted from air for inclusion in artificial fertilizers, a field of huge importance in agriculture. He has also explained oxidation of carbon monoxide on platinum, a reaction that takes place in catalytic converters to clean auto-exhaust emissions.

Professor Ertl was reached by telephone minutes after hearing he had been chosen, incidentally on his 71st birthday.

"I was really speechless," he said. "I am very surprised. This is the greatest honor you can think of in the life of a scientist."

On December 10, the 111th anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, Professor Ertl and the other winners of the 2007 Nobel Prizes in science and literature will come to Sweden to receive their awards in a gala ceremony at Stockholm City Hall

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