San Francisco Carbon Collaborative

Founded in San Francisco in February 2009, the SF Carbon Collaborative is a non-profit partnership of local government (Mayor's Office in San Francisco), business, and environmental organizations working to accelerate the development of effective business and policy responses to climate change. The organization achieves its objective by delivering programs that: build stakeholder capacity; support the development of just, inclusive, and effective public policies, and; foster the creation, commercialization, and deployment of environmentally friendly technologies. Capacity Building These programs and initiatives are designed to promote a greater understanding of legislative, regulatory, and market-based responses to climate change. Policy Development The SF Carbon Collaborative will provide a forum for its Policy Development Program participants to present, discuss, and negotiate a range of policy and issue positions. The Carbon Collaborative will utilize the collective influence of its program participants to advocate for its positions. Market Development San Francisco is home to a unique confluence of risk capital, entrepreneurial creativity, and environmental activism. SF as a global hub, have both long established linkages to China and the Pacific Rim to address global climate change. The Market Development program will leverage these regional strengths to produce large scale conferences and events that showcase the latest climate change thinking and clean technology innovations. A subset of the SFCC will be a working group for the future San Francisco Climate Exchange SFCC Board of Directors: Lee West, SFCMX as Non Executive Chairman and CEO David Pascal, Mayor's Office-City of San Francisco as President and COO Neal Dikeman of CarbonFlow and Jane Capital as CFO and Treasurer Jennifer Martin of Center for Resource Solutions, as Secretary Indira Balkissoon of DNV, Board Member