Environmental Finance Conferences
 
 
 
 
 
Climate Change: Emissions: Weather: Investment: Lending: Insurance

Programme

DAY ONE: Monday 9 July

8.30 Registration

9.00 Chairman's welcome address and opening remarks
Clemens Huettner, Director, Carbon Investment Advisory, 3C

9.10 KEYNOTE: Official view from the Commission – EU ETS review

  • Lessons learnt from Phase I
  • Phase II National Allocation Plans
  • Proposed expansion for Phase III – more gases, more industry sectors
    Damien Meadows, Deputy Head of Unit, DG Environment, European Commission

    9.45 PANEL SESSION: EU ETS review – comments from industry, the finance sector and NGOs
    Tomas Wyns, EU ETS policy advisor, Climate Action Network Europe
    Stefan Ulreich, Energy Policy, E.ON Energie
    Masum Bergmann, Head of EUA desk, Evolution Markets

    10.35 Morning break

    11.05 Trading outlook for Phase II

  • Long/short positions in different industry sectors
  • Changing mix of market participants
  • Price expectations for EU Allowances
  • Impact of auctioning
  • Expected use of CDM & JI credits
    Seb Walhain, Director, Environmental Products, Fortis Bank

    11.40 Trading strategies in the EU ETS

  • Buying 2008-12 allowances and Kyoto credits
  • Risk management and hedging products. swaps, options, etc
  • Playing some spreads: time spreads, CERs vs EUAs, carbon vs energy commodities
    Emmanuel Fages, Commodities Strategist, Société Générale

     11.50 Clean Development Mechanism projects in the Americas

  • Overcoming the confusion around how the Clean Development Mechanism is implemented
  • CDM and offset projects and what they will mean in a linked market
  • Buying credits in the CDM market
    Corinne Boone, Managing Director, Global Origination, CantorCO2e

    12.15 EU ETS for SMEs

  • Treatment of small emitters in different member states
  • Low-cost routes to compliance
  • Role of aggregation facilities
    Lionel Fretz, CEO, Carbon Capital Markets

    12.50 Lunch

    2.05 PRICES PANEL: Evolution of EUA prices in Phase I and the current market in Phase II allowances
    Louis Redshaw, Head of Environmental Markets, Barclays Capital
    Abyd Karmali, Managing Director, ICF International
    Camilla Taylor, Investment Advisor to Trading Emissions, EEA Fund Management

    2.55 CASE STUDY: The low-carbon future for building materials

  • Impact of EU ETS phases II and III on the building materials sector
  • Complex reporting - a CO2 value chain perspective
  • Impact of global warming on construction and building materials product strategy - realising benefits
    Francois Dauphin, Environmental Offering Director, LogicaCMG

    3.30 Afternoon break

    3.50 Joint Implementation & Clean Development Mechanism

  • How project-based credits are influencing prices and trading activity in the EU ETS
  • Who's buying, who's selling
  • Price differentials between HFC and non-HFC credits
  • Trends and outlook for technology types and host countries
    Lisa Ashford, Principal Commercialisation Manager, EcoSecurities

    4.25 EU ETS in Eastern Europe

  • How new member states are engaging with the EU ETS
  • Corporate strategies within Eastern Europe
  • Expected supply of allowances from central and Eastern Europe
    Gergely Szabó, Head of Trading, Vertis Environmental Finance

    5.00 Chairman's closing remarks

    5.10 Networking drinks reception

    DAY TWO: Tuesday 10 July

    8.40 Registration

    9.10 Chairman's welcome address and opening remarks

    9.20 Carbon market jobs – where are people coming from?

  • What skills/experience are needed?
  • How does supply compare with demand?
  • What should I pay or be paid?
    Christopher Lascelles, Senior Consultant, Ruston WHEB Search & Selection

    9.45 PANEL SESSION: Phase III - prospects for expansion of EU ETS – more gases, more sectors, auctioning vs grandfathering
    David Hone, Group Climate Change Advisor, Shell International
    Michael Wriglesworth, Senior Advisor, Climate Change, Centre for European Policy Studies
    Dian Phylipsen, Ecofys
    Franzjosef Schafhausen, Deputy Director General, Environment & Energy, German Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

  • 10.35 Morning break

    11.05 CASE STUDY: Power sector perspective

  • Managing a portfolio of EU Allowances to ensure compliance
  • Risk management and hedging strategies
  • Changes in approach for Phase II
    Sue Wheeler, Head of New Energy, Centrica

    11.40 Impact and response of the coal sector

  • Outlook for carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • How CCS could help companies in the EU ETS
  • Update on current CCS projects
  • Towards a zero-emission coal-fired power plant
    John Kessels, Senior Analyst, IEA Clean Coal Centre

    12.15 Carbon costs and shareholder value

  • Wide-ranging impact of carbon costs – from raw materials to finished products
  • Assessing value-at-risk as a result of emission caps
  • Impact of the scheme on investment decisions
  • Maximising opportunities to enhance shareholder value
    David Sanders, Partner, Cairneagle Associates

    12.50 Lunch

    2.05 PANEL SESSION: Routes to compliance – carbon funds, in-house buying facilities, third-party aggregators
    David Corregidor, Deputy Director of Environment, Endesa
    Bernhard Zander, First Vice President, KfW Carbon Fund
    Peter Koster, Chief Executive, ECX

    2.55 Legal issues in Phase II

  • Impact of legal and regulatory structure on Phase II pricing
  • Phase II and Phase III - one market or two?
  • Outstanding questions over Transaction Logs (ITL and CITL)
  • Have standard contracts achieved true harmonisation and should traders care about basis risk?
  • Banking of EU allowances
  • Linking of EU ETS to external markets
  • Constraints on trading secondary CERs
  • Is it really possible to securitise EUAs and CERs?
    Anthony Hobley, Partner and head of climate change, Norton Rose

    3.30 Afternoon break

    4.00 Bringing aviation into the EU ETS

  • What is the likely timetable?
  • How the airlines are preparing for this
  • Design options for ETS aviation
  • How KLM plans to reduce emissions, now and in the future
  • Likely impact on EU Allowance prices
    Udeke N.J. Huiskamp, Director sustainability, KLM

    4.35 EU ETS as the heart of a global trading system

  • Analysis of non-EU trading programmes
  • Comparison of schemes in US, Norway, Switzerland and Australia
  • Challenges and opportunities in linking with EU ETS
    Michela Beltracchi, European Policy Co-Ordinator, IETA

    5.10 Chairman’s closing remarks

    5.20 Close of conference