Day One: Thursday 12th May 2011

8.00 Registration and networking breakfast

8.45 Opening of conference & Chairman’s welcome address
Mark Campanale, Director, Four Elements Capital

8.50 OPENING PRESENTATION: The changing role of forestry
• Ecosystem services
• Forestry and climate change
• The UK’s Woodland Carbon Task Force
• Standards & sustainability
• Understand new markets and customers
Pat Snowdon, Head of Economics and Climate Change, UK Forestry Commission

9.15 PANEL DISCUSSION: The role of forests in a green economy
Mads Asprem, Managing Director, Green Resources
Roland Pfeuti, Senior Investment Director, Head Private Equity Team Switzerland, SAM Private Equity
Alice Chapple, Director of Sustainable Financial Markets, Forum for the Future

10.00 Europe’s response to International Year of Forests
David Ellul, Associate Economic Affairs Officer, Forestry and Timber Section, UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

10.30 Morning break & networking

11.00 PANEL DISCUSSION: Finance for sustainable forestry
• Forestry as an asset class
• Sustainability criteria
• Investor trends and drivers
• Analysis of income streams from forests
• Aims and achievements of new forestry funds
• Where next for sustainable forestry investment?
• Forestry for long-term investors
Darius Sarshar, Co-Portfolio Manager, Tropical Asia Forest Fund, New Forests Asset Management
Marko Katila, Partner, Dasos Capital
Mark Campanale, Director, Four Elements Capital
Simon Petley, Director, EnviroMarket
Amy Merrill, Managing Associate, Climate Change Practice, Linklaters

12.00 UN Forum on Forests
Benjamin Singer, Forest Affairs Officer, United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat

12.30 Lunch & networking

13.45 PANEL DISCUSSION: Forestry and the carbon markets
• REDD+ - outcomes from Cancun
• Mandatory versus voluntary markets
• New Zealand, Australia, California / WCI
• Forestry projects in the CDM
Cheri Sugal, Director, Terra Global Capital
Jonathan Shopley, Managing Director and External Affairs, The CarbonNeutral Company
Robert Falls, Chairman & CEO, ERA Carbon Offsets
Andres Espejo, Forestry Sector Development Manager, DNV Climate Change Services

14.30 Forest carbon case studies
CASE STUDY 1: Nicholas Embden, Carbon Certification Manager, Green Resources
CASE STUDY 2: Joshua Bishop, Chief Economist, IUCN & Jean-Pierre Rennaud, Director, Danone Fund for Nature

15.30 Afternoon break & networking

16.00 Standards for forest carbon projects
• Key concerns
• Comparison of the leading standards
• ACR, CAR, Gold Standard, VCS etc
Nicholas Martin, Chief Technical Officer, American Carbon Registry

16.30 Monitoring, reporting & verification
• Availability of forest data
• Recent developments in satellite observations
Nicholas Berry, Senior Ecosystem Analyst, Ecometrica

17.00 Hedging and managing risk of forestry assets
• Modelling forestry risks
• Risk transfer for forestry, forest bio-fuels and forest carbon
• Insurance of forestry assets
Phil Cottle, Managing Director, ForestRe

17.30 Networking Drinks Reception

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Day Two: Friday 13th May 2011

9.00 Chairman’s welcome
Michael Woods, Principal Advisor, Irbaris

9.15 PANEL DISCUSSION: Connecting forestry, biomass and carbon
• Biomass projects in the CDM
• Role of the carbon markets in protecting forests
• Methane capture projects in the CDM
• Biomass projects for small-scale power generation
Andrew Hedges, Chair, REDD+ Working Group, CMIA; Partner, Norton Rose
Mike Bess, Head of Policy and Strategy/Africa Chairman, Camco
Olivia Fussell, Managing Director, CINCS
Jamal Gore, Chair, General Policy Working Group, ICROA; Managing Director, Carbon Clear

10.00 Bioenergy in the EU
• Update on trends in bioenergy
• Bioenergy targets and incentive mechanisms
• Impact of bioenergy in EU ETS
Peter Rechberger, Bioenergy Expert, European Biomass Association (AEBIOM)

10.30 Morning break & networking

11.00 Recent trends in wood energy
• Developments in biomass power
• Coal/Power/Carbon pellet prices + (€/$ rate)  
• Competing demand for residues, e.g. pulp, paper and solid wood products versus biopower and biofuel
John Bingham, Research Director, Hawkins Wright 

11.30 PANEL DISCUSSION: Financing mechanisms for biomass projects in Europe
• Regulatory drivers and incentive programmes
• Bankability aspects (revenue drivers, fuel supply, contracting structure,  technology risk, etc)
Graham Stuart, Partner, Environmental Markets, Baker & McKenzie
Mark Henderson, Project & Infrastructure Finance, Capital Markets Division, Investec Bank

12.15 Lunch & networking

13.30 Wood energy in the UNECE region: status and trends
• Preliminary results of the Joint Wood Energy Enquiry
• European Forest Sector Outlook Study
• Overview of the role of woody biomass in national renewable energy policies
David Ellul, Associate Economic Affairs Officer, Forestry and Timber Section, UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

14.00 Wood energy case study - Forth Energy
• Large and small scale power production
• Developments in CHP projects
Calum Wilson, Managing Director, Forth Energy

14.30 Forest footprint disclosure project
• Uncovering information for investors
• Major corporate causes of deforestation
• Update on 2010 disclosure report
• Progress since 2009
Andrew Mitchell, Director, Global Canopy Programme; Chairman, FFD Steering Committee

15.15 Afternoon break & networking

15.45 PANEL DISCUSSION: Forests + Biodiversity
• Outcome from the Convention on Biodiversity conference in Nagoya
• Potential payment for ecosystem services
• Corporate case studies
• REDD+
Alexa Morrison, Governance and Policy, Plan Vivo Foundation
Hassen Bali, Vice President, Environmental Markets, Markit
Duncan Macqueen, Head of Forest Team, IIED
Michael Woods, Principal Advisor, Irbaris

16.30 Biochar
• Potential for carbon sequestration 
• Role in sustainable development
• Latest research
Jim Hammond, Research Assistant, UK Biochar Research Centre (UKBRC), School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh

17.15 Close of Conference

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