• Assessing the key positions of China and India and what the future holds for their participation in the regulatory process
• How to identify and assess the best projects  
• Comparing opportunities in India and China vs. those in other parts of Asia
      

• Identifying challenges in selling CERs: Understanding the impacts of current regulations and the readiness of the market in this region
• Determining the right price and selecting the right buyers
• How you can get more from your brokers and the exchanges
     

• Sourcing CDM projects and eligible suppliers
• Clarifying reliability, credibility and legal matters
• Determining pricing and project sustainability issues
    

• Outlining and weighting the various sources of capital available to CDM projects
• A special focus on Private Equity fund
• Assessing investor’s process and requirements: A closer look at due diligence process at a methane CDM project in Asia   

• Assessing the maturity of carbon trading in USA, Europe and Japan and how they are driving trade in Asia
• Understanding current and future trading regulations and policies in Asia
• Carbon trading exchanges in Asia and their impacts

• Impacts of declining industries in Ukraine, Russia and Eastern Europe on CERs pricing
• Effects of EU limitations on CERs pricing
• Managing price volatility through future contracts    

• Climate change and the implications for Asia
• Government response and capacity to address climate change risks
• Implications and opportunities for corporations who embrace this change
• The emergence of the Green Corporation and what this means for company directors   

• Analysing developments in carbon emission reduction mechanism post 2012
• Forecasting the positions of China and India in carbon finance and trade
• The participation of the US and Australia: Federal vs. state based initiatives
• The implications of EU restrictions; CDM vs. JI    

• Examining the roles of the private sector in carbon finance and trade in China
• Recognising the opportunities in power sector for the development of CDM projects
• Addressing challenges and capacity building
• Future innovations to maximize benefits from carbon finance and trade   

• Addressing opportunities and challenges as one of the first CDM projects from Indonesia
• Growing revenue from the selling of CERs from the project

This round table discussion session is an open moderated session where delegates are divided into groups to discuss a topic chosen. This session aims to bring out issues/problems/ideas, etc from individual delegate. Moderated by key industry experts, the round table discussion will ensure debate and discussion on thought-provoking and controversial issues with industry peers. You can select to participate in any of the following round table discussions and you have the freedom to move around different discussion groups to maximise your learning experience.

1) Identify the business opportunities stemming from a carbon trading environment in Asia

2) Understand how current and future emission laws and regulations are impacting businesses in Asia?

3) Impact on the oil, gas and power industries with the move towards renewable energy

4) Creating energy efficiency in your business: what are the available solutions and technologies?

5) Practical ways to reduce the carbon footprint and becoming a green corporation

6) Investing in green energy: what are the potential returns, risks and challenges?

The purpose of the workshop shall be to provide an insight into the development of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects: How to deal with regulations, legal matters, validation and verification of the project, project financing and the implementation of risk management and mitigation strategies.

As 3C is the investment advisor to the carbon fund Climate Change Investment I SICAR, the workshop leader will also explain the pricing of CERs from a buyer’s perspective and provide information regarding the appropriate price models for project owners.    

The Masterclass focuses on the trading of CERs from CDM projects in Asia, with a strong emphasis on the emerging online carbon trading practices in the region. An important area to be addressed is the need for a transparent pricing mechanism for CERs. This Masterclass will also examine the prevalent financial structures involved in CDM project implementation.

Key Feature

The learning experience will be enriched with the presence of leading stakeholders in carbon trading as well as non-Annex I government officials in the industry panel discussion and roundtable debate. This will provide the participants direct insights into the emerging carbon trading regime in Asia and a closer look into the outlook and opportunities.

Workshop outline:

• Overview of the infrastructure implemented by UNFCCC to facilitate carbon trading
• Emerging online carbon trading practices
• Need for different and innovative carbon related products – Liquidity Creator Models
• Outline of Carbon Management Services from Project Development, Carbon Finance to Trading of Carbon Assets, including CERs, ERUs and VERs
• Benefiting from emerging Asia’s online carbon trading regime

Workshop objectives:

This Masterclass is developed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the carbon markets evolution, working principles as well as good practices that are being established, streamlined and incorporated into emerging “online carbon trading” schemes.

The participants will have a clear understanding of the operation of carbon trading markets and identify the opportunities in this promising sector.

Workshop participants:

• CDM project owners
• CDM project developers
• Traders and brokers
• Exchange platform operators
• CERs buyers
• Government officials