• What is Clean Development Mechanisms?
• Developing CDM projects in Africa
• Financing options for CDM
• Guidance on how CDM can improve project finance
• Measuring the clean development mechanism’s performance and potential
• Policy and regulatory framework of the CDM
• Insight into the wider implications and future developments of CDM
• Understanding legal implications of CDM projects
• Key challenges of entering the CDM market
• What can the CDM do for Africa?

About your workshop leader

Grant LittleProject Leader
Eco Securities

Grant is passionate about the changing climate and how African business is responding to these changes. He is a pure and applied chemistry graduate who has spent over 16 years in the forest products industry before moving on to climate change and carbon project development. He is a liaison delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, worked on their local business desk during the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 and was an active member of the South African ISO Technical Committee TC207 for environmental management. Part of his portfolio of duties has included SD reporting, Environmental Management System implementation, auditing, CDM project implementation, product ecolabelling through the Forest Stewardship Council and a global Greenhouse Gas strategy implementation. He holds an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science and is a part time lecturer where he brings the business perspective of sustainable development to students. He grew up on timber farms in South Africa and enjoys spending time with his family, watching rugby and being involved in his church community.

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• Assessing the current status of EIA regulations on the impact on your organisation
• Role of stakeholders in a project requiring an EIA
• Effectively compiling an environmental impact report
• Finalising your environmental impact report
• Understanding and fast-tracking the EIA decision making process
• What is an environmental impact assessment?
• Undertaking the process for undertaking an environmental impact assessment
• What is the current status of EIA in Africa?
• Challenges facing EIA in Africa
• What is social impact assessment?
• Principles to be observed when making environmental decisions

About your workshop leaders

Dr Ted AvisManaging Director
Coastal & Environmental Services

Ted is a leading expert in the field of Environmental Impact Assessments, having project-managed numerous large-scale EIAs to international standards (e.g. World Bank and International Finance
Corporation). Ted has also project managed and provided professional input to the State of Environment reports and Strategic Environmental Assessments produced by CES.

Dr Alan Carter
Senior Consultant and Director
Coastal & Environmental Services

Alan has extensive training and experience in both financial accounting and environmental science disciplines with international accounting firms in South Africa and the USA. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and holds a PhD in Plant Sciences. He is also a certified ISO14001 EMS auditor with the American National Standards Institute and the British Standards Institute.

Dr Kevin Whittington-Jones
Principal Consultant
Coastal & Environmental Services

Kevin is a senior lecturer in the Rhodes Investec Business School and is responsible for the development and coordination of the environmental management electives of the Rhodes MBA
programme. He has a PhD in Environmental Biotechnology and his areas of expertise include integrated pollution and waste management, technology assessment, waste water treatment,
environmental management systems and business risk.

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