Global Sponsors:

India is one of the success stories of the CDM, with 32.83% of all registered CDM project activities and 14.7% of CERs from registered projects (source: UNFCCC).   India’s dependence on fossil fuels creates high carbon intensity, providing industry with an excellent opportunity to generate large volumes of carbon credits from energy efficiency and clean energy projects.

The second annual Carbon Markets India will provide an excellent platform for representatives from Indian industry to learn about CDM business opportunities and do business with buyers of Certified Emissions Reductions (CER’s).

Event Objectives

• To provide a platform for industry to learn about CDM business opportunities in India
• To discuss strategies to reduce GHG emissions whilst increasing economic growth
• To create a networking platform for CER buyers and sellers
• To showcase best practice CDM projects
• To accelerate carbon market development in India

Event History

The inaugural Carbon Markets India conference was a huge success, bringing together 165 leading Indian industrialists and climate change experts to address the business opportunities for CDM in India. The event was run with the support of the Confederation of Indian Industry.

32% of the audience were Indian project hosts in 2007
Amongst those companies present were high level executives from Essar Group, Hindustan Zinc, Reliance Industries Limited, Dempo Group, Jubilant, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Grasim Industries, Nucon Energy Group, Asian Paints, Eastman Exports, IHS Energy, Suntraco, Torrent Power, Metro Entertainment, Sasol Synfuels, Shree Renuka Sugars, Indian Sucrose, Senergy Global, Priyadarshini Polysacks and Siemens.

Excellent reviews from participants

"Carbon Markets India conference enhanced, enriched, enlightened and educated enormously!" Mecpro

"I've been to about 50 conferences this year and yours was the best" Growdiesel

Chair’s Opening Remarks

Marco Monroy, President and CEO, MGM International

Carbon Management, Sustainable Development and Revenues from CDM

• Implementing corporate strategies to measure and reduce carbon emissions
• Sustainable development in industry
• Assessing the revenue potential from the CDM

A B Chakraborty, Group General Manager & Head, Carbon Management Group, ONGC, Carbon Management Group

An Update on the Indian CDM Market

• What are the latest developments in the Indian CDM market?

Pamposh Bhat, Director, GTZ

Ensuring Project Additionality

• What are the key elements of additionality?
• Why some Indian projects have faced challenges
• Positive and negative project examples

Timothy Patrick Fox, Entrepreneur in Residence, IFMR Trust

Panel Discussion: Programmatic CDM – Increasing the Value of Small Scale Projects

• What is programmatic CDM?
• How will it work in practice?
• Will it help stimulate investment in small scale projects?

Panellists:
Pamposh Bhat, Director, GTZ
Vinod Kala, Founder, Emergent Ventures
Matt Deeble, Head of CDM Projects, Cool NRG International
Subhendu Biswas, Chief Executive Officer, First Climate

Mitigating Risk in CDM Projects

• What are the barriers to financing CDM projects in India?
• Analyzing the risks in project financing
• Solutions to mitigate barriers in CDM financing

Virat Divyakirti, Senior Emissions Structurer, Swiss Re Capital Markets

Opportunities for Venture Capitalists in India’s Carbon Markets

• What is the role for venture capital in CDM?
• What is the potential for carbon funds for CDM?
• What types of project are of most interest to venture capitalists?

Ashok Kumar Choudhary, Managing Director, IFCI Venture Capital Fund

Panel Discussion: New Investment Models for CDM

• Increasing the participation of banks in CDM project financing
• What investors are looking for?
• How can developers of small scale projects attract finance?
• What are the finance options at different stages of project development?

Moderator:
Sandeep Singhal, Managing Director, Nexus India Capital Advisors

Panellists:
Somak Ghosh, President Corporate Finance and Development Banking, YES Bank
Vinay Deodhar, Clean Energy and CDM Specialist, CMI – Asian Development Bank
Rajha Gopalan, President & Chief Executive Officer, Renco Technologies
Shri Yashpal Gupta, Deputy General Manager, Carbon Credit Business, IDBI
Chaitanya Kalia, Partner Risk Advisory Services, Ernst & Young

Common Issues Encountered during Validation and Verification
Sandeep Kanda, Regional Manager Asia, TUEV SUED

Indian CDM Projects – A Buyers Perspective

• What are buyers looking for when buying offsets?
• How can companies maximise the value of their CERs?
• What are the key drivers for setting the price of CERs?
• Do prices meet buyers’ expectations?

Ash Sharma, Senior Investment Manager and Head Carbon Finance and Funds,Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO)

Panel Discussion: Trading & Pricing of CER’s in India

Unupom Kausik, Chief Business Officer, NCDEX
Martin Collins, Global Managing Director, Natsource

Each speaker will give a 15minute overview of the CDM projects they have implemented, followed by an interactive discussion.

• Examining the key success factors in CDM project development
• Where are the revenue opportunities?
• What types of projects have the greatest revenue potential for industry?

09.10: Suresh Iyer, Assistant General Manager, JSW Steel
09.25: Subash Rustogi, Executive Vice President, Corporate EHS, ITC
09.40: Kishor Mukherjee, Vice President, CDM Cell, RIL Projects

Interactive Discussion Session with Speakers

CDM Projects in the Manufacturing Domain - Essar's Experiences

11.10

HR Coke Making with Power as a Co-Product: A Case Study in Green Production

• Non Recovery coke making – a brief background
• Process of heat recovery and explanation of power generation process flow chart
• Benefits of the technology

Prosenjit Sarkar, Chief Production, Hooghly Met Coke & Power

Methane Avoidance and Fuel Conservation Project

• Case Study: Production and collection of methane-rich biogas for fuel from wastewater at a pulp and paper mill
• How have GHG emissions been reduced?
• Challenges faced in conserving natural resources in production

Dr S Chinnaraj, Manager Research and Development, Tamilnadu Newsprint and Papers

11.55

Methane Recovery and Power Generation at a Distillery

• Case Study: Using methane from effluent treatment in a sugar distillery to generate electricity
• Assessing the reduction in GHG emissions released
• Future initiatives from GMR Industries

Naresh Kumar, Chief Operating Officer, GMR Industries

Renewable Energy Projects
This session will look at examples of how companies are implementing renewable energy technologies for CDM projects.

16 MW Low-Density Biomass Residue Cogeneration Plant: Gold Standard

• What defines a gold standard CDM project?
• What are the benefits to the project host?
• Case Study: Shri Chamundi low density biomass residue cogeneration plant

Kolluru Krishan, Chairman, Malavalli Power Plant

Grid Connected Wind Power

• Captive utilization of electricity through state electricity utility
• Benefits to the regional electricity grid and RSMML

Gopal Gandhi, Deputy General Manager Projects, Rajasthan State Mines & Minerals

What are the Benefits of Voluntary Carbon Market Projects?

• An overview of the voluntary carbon markets
• Why have they developed?
• How can voluntary projects be implemented?
• What are the benefits of VCM projects?

Sara Lynn Pesek, Research Analyst – India, New Carbon Finance

15.45

Panel Discussion: What is the Latest Status of the Voluntary Carbon Markets?

• What are the latest developments in VCM standards?
• How are voluntary emissions priced?
• How is the voluntary market developing in India?
• How will it function in relation to the compliance market?

Panellists:
Vinod Kala, Founder, Emergent Ventures
Maria Pia Iannariello, Chief Operating Officer, MGM International
Sara Lynn Pesek, Research Analyst – India, New Carbon Finance
Siddartha Jha, Consultant, Creative EcoWorks
Prabhat Upadhyaya, Research Associate, REEEP

16.30

Post 2012: Opportunities and Risks

• How is the market likely to develop post 2012?
• What are the risks and opportunities for CDM project developer’s post 2012

Marieta Koleva, Project Manager India, First Climate

We are now accepting speaking proposals for this event. If you are involved in the extended Carbon Markets value chain in India and would like to submit a speaking proposal (presentation title, 4-5 bullet points and brief synopsis) then please contact

Now in its 2nd year, Carbon Markets India offers an integrated solution of brand positioning, business development and face-to-face networking opportunities with senior decision makers.

Connecting you with the right people
With a proven track record of delivering high calibre project developers, Carbon Markets India provides the perfect environment for you to do business with project developers from across India under one roof.

First class business opportunities
Our sponsorship and exhibition packages are designed to help you meet your business objectives. If you are looking to win prospective clients, strengthen existing relationships or enhance your company profile, we will help you do so in a cost effective manner.

Contact Santosh Sarma for further details
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Global Sponsors:

First Climate is one of Europe’s leading carbon asset management companies. With 13 offices on four continents and more than ten years’ experience in the market, it is one of the few intermediaries to cover the entire carbon credit value chain. First Climate develops, finances, and implements CDM, JI, and VER projects, purchases the resulting carbon credits, and customizes trading solutions for companies subject to the EU ETS. As investment advisor to several institutional investors, First Climate structures and develops carbon funds and related products. In the voluntary market, the company provides VERs verified according to the highest international standards. First Climate is one of the main sponsors of the Gold Standard Version 2.

MGM International is a project development, investment and comercialization firm whose objectives are the identification, design, negotiation, execution and monitoring of CDM projects that contribute to reducing anthropogenic GHG emissions. Our company has a multidisciplinary staff based in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, India, Japan, Mexico and the United States, that brings togheter the often unusual combination of top academic credentials and years of practical experience that maake projects happen. MGM has wide experience in successfully developing methane and other greenhouse gases CDM projects worldwide.

TÜV SÜD is an internationally leading technical service organisation with over 13.000 employees and present at more than 600 locations worldwide. Under the UNFCCC TÜV SÜD is the only DOE accredited for all scopes of the CDM. Having realised over 800 project validations, TÜV SÜD was elected „best verifier of climate change projects“ by „Environmental Finance“.

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WADE works to accelerate the worldwide development of high efficiency cogeneration, onsite power and decentralized renewable energy systems that deliver substantial economic and environmental benefits. In an effort to raise the profile of cogeneration as a climate change mitigation strategy in the 1997 UNFCCC climate change negotiations the International Cogeneration Alliance was founded. In 2002 the group changed its name to WADE and broadened its scope to include all manner of DE technologies. www.localpower.org

The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) is an active global partnership that structures policy and regulatory initiatives for clean energy, and facilitates financing for sustainable energy projects.
Backed by national governments, businesses, banks and NGOs, REEEP is uniquely placed to contribute to international, national and regional policy dialogues. The partnership has funded more than eighty high quality projects in forty countries that remove market barriers to clean energy, primarily in the developing world. www.reeep.org

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165 carbon markets professionals attended the inaugural edition of Carbon Markets India, which brought together project developers, regulators, banks and carbon experts to discuss best practices in carbon project development and trading. Our events stand out for the unparalleled number of project host companies we attract and the level of detail and knowledge reflected in our event programs.

Here’s who you’ll meet at Carbon Markets India

• Project Developers & Hosts
• Bankers & Finance
• Government & Municipalities
• Analysts & Research
• Carbon Consultants
• Project Verifiers
• Carbon Brokers
• Press
• DNAs & CDM Offices

Meet prospective project developers
32% of the audience were Indian project hosts in 2007
Amongst those companies present were high level executives from Essar Group, Hindustan Zinc, Reliance Industries Limited, Dempo Group, Jubilant, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Grasim Industries, Nucon Energy Group, Asian Paints, Eastman Exports, IHS Energy, Suntraco, Torrent Power, Metro Entertainment, Sasol Synfuels, Shree Renuka Sugars, Indian Sucrose, Senergy Global, Priyadarshini Polysacks and Siemens.

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