On Friday, October 5th, the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy is sponsoring the 2012 Philomathia Foundation Forum at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco. The topic of the Forum is “Where is the Money? Unlocking Capital for Real Estate Efficiency Improvements.” The event will take place from 8:30am-4:30pm.
The forum will explore what has been hindering the deployment of capital to energy efficient developments, including the need for energy considerations in risk and asset management decisions and a liquid secondary market for existing and proposed energy financing products.
Participants are encouraged to engage in an active discussion of the solutions to these impediments with leaders in real estate, finance, and technology. The impressive speaker list includes Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and California Controller, John Chiang. Michael R. Peevey, President of the California Public Utilities Commission and Richard Kauffman, a Senior Advisor at the US Department of Energy will also present. These speakers and more will focus on assessing and managing the energy risk that is critical to unlocking the trillions of dollars necessary to achieve energy efficiency benefits.
The event is also sponsored by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics and Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley.
If you would like more information, please contact BCBLE@law.berkeley.edu.
I can attend. Would you register me, please?