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ONE-DAY CARBON MARKETS
WORKSHOP: Wednesday 10 October
8:30 Registration
9:00 Introduction to the carbon markets
Kyoto Protocol – CDM/JI
EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Emergence of voluntary markets
James Graham, Camco
9:45 Carbon pricing
Supply expectations
Demand forecasts
Trends and forces that could move the price
John Metzler, UBS
10.30 Coffee
10:45 Risks and returns from investing in
carbon
CER purchases – direct or brokered
Carbon funds – indirect investments
EU Allowance trading
Project investment, equity plays, technology plays
Geoff Sinclair, Standard Bank
10:30 Legal structuring of carbon contracts
ERPAs
VERPAs
Other contract structures?
Justin Pavry, Allen & Overy
12.15 Lunch
13.30 The Clean Development Mechanism –
risks and good practice
Buyers’ experience
Potential pitfalls
Future opportunities
Beatriz Urgel-Esteban, Camco
14.15 Joint Implementation – opportunities
emerging
The Russian experience
Ongoing risks and opportunities
Arthur Houston, Camco
15.00 Coffee
15.15 Carbon management
Assessing and reducing carbon emissions
Jody Ellis, ESD
16.05 Emerging carbon markets
The voluntary markets for emission reductions
Kyoto linkages
Post-2012 trading in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Shelagh Whitley, Camco
16.50 Close of Workshop
DAY ONE: Thursday
11 October
8.30 Registration and refreshments
9.00 Chairman's welcome address
and opening remarks
James Wilde, Director of Insights, The Carbon Trust
9.20 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Latest developments
in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (review of Phase I and
outlook for Phase II)
Johannes Enzmann, Administrator, DG Energy and Transport, EC
9.50 Outlook for the CDM market
Programmatic CDM
Sectoral approaches
Other changes/initiatives
Hans Jürgen Stehr, Chair,
CDM Executive Board
10.25 Practical experience of the
CDM
Progress in developing methodologies
Identifying projects
Monitoring and verification issues
Risk of underdelivery
Changing trends in technology types and favoured countries
James Graham, Head of Policy and
Regulatory Affairs, Camco International
11.00 Morning break
11.30 CASE STUDY: Landfill gas projects
Challenges and opportunities
Global potential of landfill
Regional variations
Measuring project performance
Outlook for the future
Gary Crawford, VP, Greenhouse Gas Division, Veolia
Environmental Services
12.05
PANEL DISCUSSION: Carbon credits for the voluntary market
Supply and demand trends
Corporate efforts at carbon neutrality
Need for consistency and transparency
Attempts to develop a standard for VERs
Michael Schlup, Director, The
Gold Standard Foundation
Mitchell Feierstein, Head of Emissions Products, Cheyne
Capital Management (UK)
Robert Dornau, Director Climate Change Programme, SGS
Société Générale de Surveillance
12.45 Lunch
2.00 Carbon finance and forestry
projects
Sequestration potential of forests
How carbon finance can help forestry projects
CERs and VERs from forestry projects
Non-carbon benefits of forestry projects
Alan Bernstein, Managing Director
and CEO, Sustainable Forestry Management
2.40 Carbon finance and sustainable
development
Financing clean energy projects
Project finance and carbon credits
Assessing “sustainable development”
Ensuring community support
Geoff Sinclair, Head of Carbon
Finance and Trading, Standard Bank
3.15 Afternoon break
3.45 Japan's approach to emission
reductions
Update on domestic initiatives
Purchase programmes of project-based credits
Matt Inamuro, Team Leader, Environmental
Business Department, Mitsui & Co
4.25 Regional emissions markets
in the US
Update on plans for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
(NE states)
Outlook for trading in California and West Coast states
Trading experience on the Chicago Climate Exchange
Jason R Patrick, Director, Greenhouse
Gas Services, Evolution Markets
5.05 Chairman's closing
remarks
5.20 Close of day one followed
by drinks reception
DAY TWO: Friday
12 October
8.30 Registration and refreshments
9.00 Chairman's welcome
address and opening remarks
Jeff Kenna, CEO, Camco International
9.15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Outlook for the Kyoto process
What to expect at COP13/MOP3
Position of the G8
Rt Hon Elliot Morley MP, Department
for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
9.45 The Stern Review – one year one
Economic impacts of climate change
Expected costs of mitigation
Responses to initial report (Oct 2006)
Recent thoughts in light of interest rate trends, IPPC
report etc
Ian Johnson, Chairman, IDEAcarbon
10.15 PANEL DISCUSSION: Carbon
buyers' panel
Compliance buyers - corporate
Investors
Governments
Karen McClellan, Head of Asset
Management, Carbon Capital Markets
Simon Shaw, Managing Director, EEA Fund Management
Kristin Lang, Deputy Head of Multi-lateral Carbon Credit
Fund, European Investment Bank
10.55 Morning break
11.25 PANEL DISCUSSION: Carbon sellers
panel
Developing countries - China, India, Brazil, E Europe
Price expectations
Guarantees, upfront payments, etc
John Shi, Managing Director, Arreon Carbon
Li Junfeng, Deputy Director, China Renewable Energy Industry
Association
Sudipta Das, Partner, Ernst & Young, India
12.05 Structured carbon transactions
Options, swaps, carbon-linked notes
Carbon within cross-commodity transactions
Greg Dunne, Origination Director,
Icecap
12.45 Lunch
2.00 Carbon offsetting services: an opportunity for utilities?
Trends for carbon offsettingGood and bad approaches
Know your market – key segments
The opportunity to provide information services
to support carbon offsetting
Francois Dauphin, Environmental
Offering Director, LogicaCMG
2.40 Emissions reductions beyond 2012
Prospects for the EU ETS – more gases, more sectors
International action – US, Australia, Canada, China,
India
Domestic action vs offsets
Pros and cons of carbon sinks
Trading vs taxes
NGO view – Stephan Singer, Head
of European Climate and Energy Policy Unit, WWF
Dr Bill Kyte OBE, Advisor Climate Change, E.ON
3.20 Afternoon break
3.50 Outlook for Joint Implementation
projects
Expectations for credits from Russia and Ukraine
Prospects in central and eastern Europe
Impact of EU ETS on the JI market
Peter Zaman, Lawyer, Clifford Chance
4.30 PANEL DISCUSSION: Where next
for carbon prices
EU Allowances vs CERS, ERUs and VERs
Assessing impact of Phase II national allocation plans
How carbon prices interact with gas, power prices + weather
Emmanuel Fages, Commodities Analyst,
Orbeo/Société Générale
Stefan Ulreich, Energy Policy, E.ON Energie
Alexandre Marty, Managing Consultant, ICF International
5.20 Chairman's closing remarks
5.30 Close of conference
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