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Day One, Tuesday 14 October 2008
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8.30am | Registration and welcome coffee
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9am | Introduction and opening remarks from the chair
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| ANALYSING THE IMPACT OF THE NATIONAL EMISSIONS TRADING
SCHEME |
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9.10am | Learning to comply with emissions reporting frameworks –
what does it mean for your business?
- The path forward – benefits of reporting carbon emissions for your business
- Analysing the AETS, accounting standards and volatility
- Other businesses that are using the systems and why you should get on board
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9.40am | Benefiting from carbon trading systems – be ahead of the pack
- Methodologies and Systems that need to be established
- Discover how to use your internal Marginal Cost of Abatement curve to trade effectively
- Learn the process of purchasing carbon credits for trade
- Learn how to assess carbon credit risk
- The role of registries in risk management
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10.10am | Panel discussion: How to track the success of the ETS – learnings from EU and US trading schemes
- How will trading emerge in the US and what are its implications for the rest of the world?
- Learnings from EU
- US and EU systems in place to reach 2020 goals of carbon
reduction
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| | Mr Rob Fowler, Managing Director, Abatement Solutions Asia Pacific
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10.50am | Morning tea
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| LEARNINGS FROM GLOBAL ACCOUNTING AND PORTFOLIO
MANAGEMENT PRACTICES |
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11.20am | What you can learn from the EU ETS accounting and
portfolio management strategies
- Having learned from these experiences, what systems are in place for phase 2
- Looking ahead – phase 3 plans and how they’ll impact Australia
- How Australian business can learn from the EU’s experience
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11.50am | The role of carbon sequestration in your business
- Carbon emissions reduction systems in place
- Costs experienced by Australia in implementing carbon reporting systems
- Global influence on Australia’s carbon reporting systems
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12.20pm | Speed Networking
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12.50pm | Networking lunch
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| ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING CHALLENGES FACING
COMPANIES |
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1.50pm | Panel discussion: How to account for carbon credits – analysing how the NGERS and ETS will sit together
- Identifying assets and liabilities
- How can you benefit from carbon credits
- How NGERS and ETS will coexist
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| | Mr Rob Fowler, Managing Director, Abatement Solutions Asia Pacific
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2.30pm | Managing your carbon liability effectively to benefit your
business
- Lessons learned from the history of the accounting practices of carbon credits and applying best practice
- Examining today’s accounting treatment of carbon credits
- Developments from the EU and US accounting standards
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3pm | Standards for a green future
- AS/ISO standards for measuring emissions and accrediting those who do the measuring
- ISO standards and proprietary standards – how they fit together
- Standards and the NGERS process – Act, regulations, guidelines
- Standards development challenges – international and domestic
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3.30pm | Afternoon tea
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4pm | Carbon disclosure – enhancing shareholder value
- Identify mandatory and voluntary drivers for carbon disclosure
- Translating emissions into dollars
- Thinking outside the square – new business opportunities
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| AUDITING AND VERIFYING THE CARBON COMPONENT OF YOUR
BUSINESS |
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4.30pm | Benefits of effectively managing emissions auditing
- Importance of auditing carbon neutrality
- Results other companies are seeing from their current systems
- How to predict and avoid verification problems
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5pm | Garnaut review – issues and implications
- Examination of the key issues in the Garnaut market design
- Comparisons to the EU
- Political implications – what are the political lessons from petrol
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5.30pm | Close of day one and networking drinks
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Day Two, Wednesday 15 October 2008
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8.30am | Welcome coffee
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9am | Introduction and opening remarks from the chair
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| GOVERNANCE AND RISK MITIGATION |
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9.10am | Implementing carbon risk mitigation measures
- How does the low carbon future change your organisation’s risk profile?
- Implementation of carbon risk management
- Using the carbon market to help manage carbon risk exposure
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9.40am | Applied risk management for climate change
- Integrating environmental risk issues in an organisation’s strategic objectives
- Placing a risk management framework over climate change issues
- How organisations can use risk management in examining sustainability issues
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| CARBON REPORTING INITIATIVES |
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10.10am | Panel discussion
Analysing compliance standards being leveraged in states to meet ETS and NGERS initiatives
- Sensitivities to carbon emissions and reporting
- What programs are in place by each state for carbon reporting
- 2020 vision, where will each state be after Kyoto
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10.40am | Morning tea
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| OFFSET OPPORTUNITIES |
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11.10am | All sectors and all gases: Has New Zealand got it right?
- What are the challenges of including all sectors in an ETS
- What are the factors to consider for a small economy in developing an ETS
- Forest offsets and agricultural emissions – can they be positively re-enforcing
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11.40am | Incorporating forest assets in an emissions trading regime
- Overview of the role of forests in the world of carbon sequestration
- The role of reforestation and REDD accounting issues
- Commercial Opportunities available in forest assets
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12.10pm | Networking lunch
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1.10pm | Environment paradigm
- Current position of global and greenhouse gas
- Dangers to Australia imposed by the growing rate of carbon emissions
- How the ETS is making an impact on the environment
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1.40pm | Panel discussion: The use of voluntary markets in assisting your business manage offsets
- What voluntary markets are going to look like
- How Australian business can benefit from the use of voluntary markets
- As mandatory targets develop, who will be using voluntary markets
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2.20pm | Executive roundtable discussions
- Roundtable 1: Carbon Accounting and Reporting
Stuard Dix and Narelle Roolker: E3 International
- Roundtable 2: Carbon Price
Srian Abeysuriya: E3 International
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3pm | Afternoon tea
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| CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVESTMENT |
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3.30pm | The new challenges of trading carbon for a diversified integrated energy utility
- Fundamental price drivers of carbon
- Trading strategies and optimisation of carbon positions
- Major trading risks and opportunities in an immature market
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4pm | Understanding the life cycle of registries – you may already own these offsets
- Are you in need of these offsets, or do you already own them?
- Making the life cycle of registries work for you
- How are Australians going to be able to buy a CDM credit and bring it to Australia?
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| REPERCUSSIONS OF NON-COMPLIANCE |
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4.30pm | Panel discussion: Avoiding financial penalties due to non compliance with emission reporting and minding your corporate reputation
- Great time to offset because unlike fines, offsets are tax deductible
- Importance of transparency of reporting
- How the share market will react?
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5.10pm | Closing remarks from the chair and close of the conference
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