• How are the Carbon Markets developing both Globally and across Asia?
• Where and how are the CER’s coming to the market?
• How will Carbon Markets develop in the next 24 months?
• How is European EU ETS market impacting on CDM Project Developments?

Marc Stuart, Founder & Director, EcoSecurities
Arne Eik, Senior Analyst, Point Carbon
Plus other keynotes to be confirmed shortly

• Role of commercial projects and other project financiers
• Impact of CDM on project financials
• Public-Private Carbon Finance Partnerships

Panellists
Dr. Bindu Lohani, Director General Regional and Sustainable Development Department,
Asian Development Bank
Pierre Cazelles, Asean Carbon Equity Fund
David Carew, Sindicatum, UK

Carbon Risk Management

• What are the key carbon project risks: implementation risks, technical risks, political risks,
• What are the key contractual risks, sellers breaking forward contracts, counterparty risks, non-compliance etc?
• How to mitigate the risks for CDM carbon projects?

Panellists to be announced

Carbon Buyers & Pricing Panel

• The dynamics of Public and Private buyers
• What is the role of governments in CER supply and pricing?
• What is the role of project participants, credit enhancement etc?
• Off take contracts and the development of unilateral projects?
• What are the factors affecting pricing?
• What are the CER price forecasts? Impact of Oil & Gas markets
• Pricing CDM AR (afforestation/reforestation): tCER’s & ICER’s
• Impact of Carbon portfolio management & diversification?

Panellists
Hitoshi Kurihara, Director General, Japan Carbon Finance Limited
Neil Cohn, Managing Director, Natsource, USA
Lucy Mortimer, TFS, UK
Vikram Widge, IFC, USA
Laurent Segalen, Director - Investment Funds, IXIS Corporate & Investment Bank
Kedin Kilgore, RNK Capital LLC, USA

Project Development Key Success Factors

• Ownership of CER’s
• Time to market
• Approvals, ongoing compliance
• Structuring deals

Panellists
Marc Stuart, Founder & Director, EcoSecurities
plus other invited panellists

Carbon Project Asian Update & Case Studies

• What was the methodology, baseline & monitoring plan?
• What were/are the barriers to successful project implementation?
• Additionality & Sustainability Criteria
• Potential for replication?

Ben Atkinson, Agrinergy, UK

Country Approvals Process

• What differences are there in each country’s approval process
• At what stage is the CDM infrastructure development?
• What are the taxes for different type of methodology?
• How to meet Additionality & SD criteria
• What criteria do the DNA stress?

Legal and Tax Issues

• What are the transaction costs for developing a Carbon Project?
• What avenues are open for bundling smaller projects?
• When will the ITL International Transactions Log and emissions registries enable CER transfer?
• How to ensure the enforceability of contracts? Legal remedies for default

Monitoring, Verification and Ongoing Transaction Costs

• What are the key points and initial requirements for verification?
• What are the ongoing transactional costs for monitoring?

Carbon Trading & Developing Regional Carbon Exchanges

• Where, how and when will the CER’s be traded?
• How liquid is/will the market be?
• What infrastructure is lacking: national registries, ITL etc?
• What are the options for linking to the EU ETS?

Peter Koster, CEO, European Climate Exchange

New Innovative Methodologies

• How can CCS and LULUCF be further developed with the Kyoto Mechanisms?
• How to address the issues of permanence, reservoir integrity, long term guarantees & failure mechanisms
• What other industrial meths and Energy Efficiency projects are there?
• How can the methodology panel stimulate and meet the demand for new innovation?

Post 2012, Technology Push + Market Pull and the Next Steps

• How are regional emissions trading schemes developing and can they be linked into regional emissions trading schemes?
• How can technology provide solutions?
• What can be learnt from the Kyoto Protocol for improving the market mechanisms?
• How to combine AP6 and Kyoto Mechanisms?
• Addressing the concerns in Asia?

Panellists
Takashi Hongo, Special Advisor, Japanese Bank International Cooperation, Japan
Rob Fowler, NSW Greenhouse Gas Office, Australia
Abyd Karmali, Director of Climate Change Strategies, ICF Consulting, UK