Where the Asian carbon markets meet to do business

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Now in it's 4th year, Carbon Markets Asia will continue to provide an excellent platform for new project hosts to learn about the latest market developments and do business with CER buyers. 

350 participants from 28 countries have attended Carbon Markets Asia to date, including over 75 project host companies - click here to see who.

With a proven track record of delivering high calibre project developers and carbon credit buyers, Carbon Markets Asia offers the perfect environment for you to meet the right people face-to-face. This year, to encourage the expansion of the market, project hosts (and prospective hosts) from Asia are invited to register from only $299*

Carbon Markets Asia 2008 has been expanded to include 2 streams of high level content, a series of in depth focussed seminars and a bigger exhibition.

Agenda

Monday 23rd June, Pre Conference Seminar:

An Introduction to Carbon Markets

Status of Carbon Markets

• CDM market overview
• Factors shaping carbon credits markets and allowances
• Key drivers affecting carbon prices
• Predicting future growth and development of markets
• Learning to identify and design a successful CDM project

Key Challenges to Entering the Market

• Barriers to project registration process
• Countering lengthy time processes
• Overcoming transaction costs and managing risk
• Sources available for raising finance
• Financing CDM projects in practice

Sudhir Bhat, Director - Project Finance, First Climate

Trading Credits: A Step by Step Guide

• Buying and selling carbon credits
• Marketing your project and transacting in the international market
• Future market projections for trading CERs between Annex 1 and non Annex 1 countries
• Historical CER price over the last few years
• Will the carbon credits make the investment worthwhile?

Suzanne Chew, Senior Emissions Broker, TFS Green

Developing CDM projects in Asia

• Progress, challenges and opportunities
• Tracking trends and developments in the market
• Assessing the success to date and potential for improvement of current models
• Carbon project success stories

Understanding Legal Implications for CDM Projects

• Legal aspects of CDM project development
• How to anticipate legal challenges
• Overcoming legal barriers to project success
• How to design and negotiate carbon contracts

Registration & Coffee

Chair’s Opening Remarks

Sonia Medina, Head of Origination, EcoSecurities, UK

Opening Plenary Session: Carbon Mitigation in Asia

Asia in the global carbon market

• How is Asia’s shift to a low-carbon trajectory coming along?

Erik Chan, Southeast Asia Coordinator, EcoSecurities

Initiatives to drive the Asian market

• Is Asia a policy driver or a follower?
• Carbon market based climate change regimes post 2012

Rae Kwon Chung, Director, ESDD, UNESCAP*

Networking Break in the Exhibition Area

New Market Developments

Small-scale projects in Thailand
William Byun, Senior Vice President, Sindicatum Carbon Capital, Singapore

DNA Roundtable

Regional DNAs discuss the developments in their country and in the region as a whole

• How will Asia maintain its key role in the global carbon market?
• What initiatives are in place to remove barriers to CDM project development?
• What is the scope of CDM project development?
• Understanding the project approval process
• How can the private sector increase its involvement in the carbon market?
• Removing the bottlenecks
• Growing CDM-related awareness
• How can organisations and companies from different sectors engage in the market?

Marcus Chee, Director, Business Council for Sustainable Development, Malaysia
Yang Hongwei, Director, CDM Project Management Center, Energy Research Institute, National Development and Reform Commission, China
Albert Magalang, CDM Project Evaluator/Environmental Management Specialist, Philippine DNA, Philippines
Sirithan Pairoj-Boriboon, Executive Director, Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization (TGO), Thailand

Balancing Project Priorities

Panel Discussion: Economic Development, Energy Security and Environmental Preservation

• How have the sustainable development benefits of CDM been realised in Asia?
• Has the clean technology and knowledge transfer taken place?
• How can the CDM help to improve economic development & energy security
• Is Programmatic CDM the kick start for new CDM growth?
• Will PoAs deliver the sustainability factor that industrial CDMs are lacking?

Tomonori SUDO, Advisor, Office for Climate Change, Development Assistance Strategy Department, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Rahul Kar, Manager - Sustainability Advisory, KPMG
Sudarshan Senaratne, Consultant, EML Consultants, Sri Lanka
Representative, Singapore Business Federation

Networking Break in the Exhibition Area

Carbon Trading

Asian CDM projects in global competition - a buyer’s perspective

• What are buyers looking for when buying offsets?

Theodore Backhouse, Head of Environmental Financial Products, Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore

Panel Discussion: CER pricing

• Key Drivers for price setting
• How can companies maximise the value of their CERs?
• What price are sellers demanding? Do they meet buyer expectations?
• Unilateral CDM Projects

Guy Turner, Director, New Carbon Finance, UK
Soeren Varming, CEO, YTL-SV Carbon Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
Koichiro Fukui, President, Japan Carbon Finance, Japan
Suzanne Chew, Senior Emissions Broker, TFS Green, UK
Mark Meyrick, Director Carbon Origination, Constellation Energy

Panel Discussion: The Role of Regional Trading Platforms

• Will a central trading and clearing hub facilitate much more liquidity and market participation across Asia?
• How many hubs should there be?
• Increasing the competition for EU & US schemes

Helen Robinson, Executive Director, TZ1 Market
Immanuel Edward J. Alwin, Head, Product Development & Carbon Trading, Asia Carbon Exchange
Peng Zhiyuan, Managing Director, China Beijing Equity Exchange, China

Close of Day One & Networking Drinks

Refreshments & Exhibition Visit

Chair’s Opening Remarks

Marco Monroy, President, MGM International

Finance & Investment Opportunities

Panel Discussion: What are investors looking for?

• Strategies and trends in current investment
• Will the lack of regulatory certainty dry up long-term investment?
• Driving a new low carbon economy in Asia
• Will investors take on the less fruitful challenge of renewable energy projects?
• Increasing the participation of banks and local financiers in CDM project funding

Takashi Hongo, Director General and Special, Advisor for Kyoto Mechanism, JBIC
Ash Sharma, Senior Investment Manager, Head, Carbon Finance and Funds, Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO), Finland
Timothy Fox, CEO, Engage Carbon
Pranab Ghosh, Senior Investment Officer, International Finance Corporation

Panel Discussion: New investment models for CDM

• Finance options at different stages of project development
• The emergence of private equity and sovereign wealth funds
• The problems and challenges of financing renewable projects
• At what stage in project development is the finance needed?

Sudhir Bhat, Director - Project Finance, First Climate
Ken Cheung, Partner, Watson, Farley & Williams
Joseph Hwang, Director, PT Gikoko Kogyo Indonesia

Networking Refreshment Break

Commercial Case Studies

Use of waste gas use for electricity generation at JSW Steel Limited
Suresh Iyer, Assistant General Manager, JSW Steel Limited, India

Cooking equipment SSC "Stove and Wonderbox" CDM projects in Indonesia
Dipl.Ing.Peter H.Mau, General Manager, PT.Samuna International Business, Indonesia

Voluntary Carbon Markets

Panel Discussion: An overview of the voluntary carbon market

• What are the latest developments in VCM standards?
• How are voluntary emissions priced?
• The status of voluntary markets in Asia
• How will it function in relation to the compliance market?

Maria Pia Iannariello, Chief Executive Officer, MGM International
Sudhir Bhat, Director - Project Finance, First Climate

Grattan MacGiffin, MF Global

Panel Discussion: Using the carbon markets to promote sustainable forestry

Michael Galante, Head of Forestry Development, Equitech Thailand Ltd, Thailand
Robert Oberndorf, Asia-Pacific Regional Project Coordinator VERIFOR & Pro-Poor Markets and Trade Projects, RECOFTC, Thailand

Networking Refreshment Break

Verification & Monitoring

Experiences from a Verifier's Perspective

• Project design document development
• Methodologies & additionality
• Validation and registration
• On going Project Maintenance
• How to ensure projects are implemented as planned
• What risks may be expected during verification?
• Lessons learned from the verification of CDM projects
• Key elements of validation, verification & certification - opportunities and pitfalls

Madhuri Nanda, Regional Manager – South East Asia, TUV SUD

Closing Plenary Session: Future Directions

Panel Discussion: Potential Future Scenarios

• What does the future hold?
• What role will CDM will play in emissions reduction post-2012?
• What kind of credits will be allowed for compliance post 2012?
• Future Emission Restrictions

Suzanne Chew, Senior Emissions Broker, TFS Green, UK
Henrik Rytter Jensen, Country Manager / Chief Consultant, Danish Energy Management, Malaysia
Kathy Hung, Vice President: China, Timing Carbon UK Ltd, China

If you are involved in the extended Carbon Markets value chain in Asia and would like to submit a speaking proposal (presentation title, 4-5 bullet points and brief synopsis) then contact

Now in its 4th year, Carbon Markets Asia 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 Asia provides the perfect environment for you to do business with project developers from across Asia under one roof.

This year, to encourage tto encourage the expansion of the market, project hosts from
Asia are invited to register for only $299.

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EcoSecurities is one of the world s leading companies in the business of originating, developing and trading carbon credits. The last 10 years has seen EcoSecurities involved in the development of many of the global carbon market s most important milestones, including developing the world s first Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project to be registered under the Kyoto Protocol, and the first to be issued with carbon credits. Today, the company is working on 402 projects in 36 countries using 18 different technologies, with the potential to generate more than 142 million carbon credits. In 2006, EcoSecurities was voted Best CDM/JI Project Developer by both Point Carbon and Environmental Finance magazine.

First Climate combines the competence and expertise in project and methodology development from Factor AG and the financial savviness in carbon credit commercialization and the climate neutral expertise of 3C. As a vertically integrated player covering the entire carbon credit value chain, First Climate is among the leading companies in the dynamic carbon markets.

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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TFS Green is part of Tradition, a global leader in interdealer broking. With offices in 24 countries, Tradition covers over 3,000 institutional clients and covers markets ranging from global foreign exchange, energy and environmental products, commodities, equities, coal, freight, precious metals, property and pulp & paper markets to money markets, derivatives and bonds and repos.

Tradition’s CDM & JI business, TFS Green, is a market leader in its field. It was awarded Best Broker Kyoto Credits (Runner up) in the Environmental Finance Awards 2007, and received a total of 14 awards for its services within the environmental markets – the highest number won by any company in the history of the awards. TFS was also awarded “Broker of the Year 2008’’ by Point Carbon. For more information visit www.tfsgreen.com

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The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) is a coalition of progressive governments, businesses and organisations committed to accelerating the development of renewable and energy efficiency systems (REES). http://www.reeep.org/

Overseas Environment Cooperation Center, Japan (OECC) is a non-governmental organization which conducts environmental cooperative projects including research study and personnel training supporting other non-government activities. Many of its activities are cooperated with the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).
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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. http://www.localpower.org/

The IPPF is a global non-profit industry support organization mandated by its members to work toward best practices in the Power Generation industry across the Asia / Pacific region. http://www.ippfpowerasia.com/

The Centre for Energy Environment Resources Development (CEERD) conducts extensive training, research and consultancy in the field of energy-environment, including data collection, modeling & planning, policy & and regulatory issues, and more importantly in the fields of new and renewable technologies and Climate Change (Kyoto Protocol, CDM, ETS, etc…), in the framework of international cooperation projects aiming to strengthen the capacity of national governments in the Asian region on above fields. CEERD also provides information and knowledge on current issues and developments in energy-environment affecting the Asian region. CEERD has been endorsed by Thailand's Ministry of Energy to be a member of the ASEAN Centre for Energy's (ACE) Network of Nodal Centres, and assists ACE in initiating, organizing, and implementing activities to promote regional cooperation on energy and environment. www.ceerd.net

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