TRACK I – CARBON FINANCE & INVESTMENT |
TRACK II – ENVIRONMENTAL CARBON PROJECTS |
| 1:00 pm |
CARBON FINANCE AS AN INVESTMENT ASSET CLASS
- Exploring carbon investment funds and their role in the US and international markets
- Examining the role of private equity, venture capital and institutional investors and carbon funds in supporting emission reduction projects
- Analyzing investor demand for structured carbon products in US markets
- Understanding investment banks’ activities in carbon trading
- Applying the success and initiatives of the Chicago Climate Exchange
- Detailing successful investment strategies and focusing on growth, performance, and structures
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1:00 pm |
EMERGING TRENDS AND ENSURING TRANSPARENCY IN THE VOLUNTARY CARBON MARKETS
- Overview of various voluntary programs, standards and registries
- Examining pricing and risks in the voluntary supply chain
- Combining voluntary carbon credits with compliance credits
- Tracking carbon credits, avoiding double counting and proving a credit’s existence
- Analyzing best practice registries, platforms and other tracking mechanisms, and building a successful infrastructure
- Discussing the legal aspects of VERs and pricing trends
- Exploring the need for linking registries and overcoming current challenges
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| 1:45 pm |
NEW GENERATION OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS IN CARBON FINANCE
- Analyzing the impact of the credit crunch on carbon finance
- Capitalizing on the investment potential of VERs, CERs and EUAs
- Understanding global carbon funds, carbon-related indices, carbon ratings, structured products including hybrid and complex ones
- Overview of carbon-linked notes for Japanese retail investors
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1:45 pm |
OFFSET QUALITY AND BUYER DEMAND IN THE VOLUNTARY CARBON MARKET
- Examining the link between offset quality and buyer demand
- Understanding the key elements of a high-quality project
- Analyzing how buyers assess the quality of a project and to what extent offset quality affects price
- Discussing how the voluntary market is affected by the emerging compliance market
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| 2:30 pm |
CARBON RATINGS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE MARKET
- Examining the need for carbon ratings in the current market
- Standardizing carbon, improving transparency, and managing risk
- Clarifying carbon ratings methodology and analysis
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2:30 pm |
MEASURING, REPORTING, VERIFICATION (MRV) AND ENFORCEMENT
- Establishing consistent inventories with equivalent units and measurement techniques
- Discussing additional checks and verification by government or third party auditors
- Best practices for effective MRV and enforcement
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| 3:00 pm |
AFTERNOON REFRESHMENTS AND NETWORKING BREAK |
| 3:30 pm |
CARBON INDEXATION
- Examining the role of carbon indices
- Analyzing the prospects for derivative/synthetic carbon products
- Understanding the financial value of the price of carbon
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3:30 pm |
CARBON TRADING FOR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY PROJECTS
- Discuss the role of forestry and agriculture in the US carbon market
- Understand the current challenges in reforestation and deforestation projects
- Assessing the market’s financial potential
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| 4:00 pm |
STRUCTURED PRODUCTS AND TAILORING CARBON PRODUCTS FOR THE RETAIL SECTOR
- Overview of hybrid and complex products
- Examining retails product options
- Analyzing the principal buyers
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4:00 pm |
SUCCESSFUL STRUCTURING AND NEGOTIATING SALES CONTRACTS
- Learn how to effectively deal with the credit risks associated with non-performance in long-term executory contracts
- Strategies for buyers to ensure that sellers own the emission reductions being sold
- Examining additionality, and the requirement that emissions reductions be surplus in the year of delivery
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| 4:30 pm |
CHAIRPERSON’S CLOSING REMARKS & COCKTAIL NETWORKING RECEPTION |
