Summit Agenda 2027
PARALLEL SESSION - The APAC Durable Carbon Removal (CDR) Summit:
Scaling High-Permanence Technologies, Registry Standards & Corporate Sourcing
13:30-13:50
(20 mins)
Keynote: The Business Case for Biochar - Unlocking High-Integrity Carbon Removals in APAC
13:50-14:50
(60 mins)
Panel: Durable CDR's Offtake Test: Can Corporate Demand Become Bankable Beyond Big Tech?
- One buyer has accounted for the large majority of all disclosed durable CDR volume — and still 43% of Q1 2026 purchases alone.
- A dominant buyer's reported pause exposed how much bankability rested on one counterparty, even as its program "has not ended."
- What it takes to structure an offtake agreement a lender treats as real revenue — not a single-buyer bet.
- Emerging candidates assessed: Altitude, Frontier's coalition, and growing bank activity — can any scale into anchor-buyer volume?
- What separates a bankable CDR project from one resting on a single company's continued goodwill.
14:50-15:50
(60 mins)
Panel: The Biochar Revenue Stack: Can Palm Waste, Carbon Credits and Soil Markets Make APAC Biochar Bankable?
- Biochar's commercial case stacks carbon credits, soil revenues and waste value — a mix few other removal pathways can match.
- The bankability question: does a three-revenue model de-risk a project, or triple what a developer must execute well?
- Indonesia's palm biomass gives feedstock scale — but logistics and quality control still shape real project economics.
- The soil-market test: who buys biochar as a soil amendment, and can local demand support repeatable revenue?
- The waste-economics layer: when disposal value helps project economics, and when collection costs erase the advantage.
- What makes a multi-revenue biochar project bankable: contracted feedstock, offtake agreements, and credible margins.
15:50-16:50
(60 mins)
Technical Workshop / Sponsor Showcase:
One Tonne, Different Rulebooks: Navigating CDR Registries Across DAC, Biochar, BECCS and Beyond
- "CDR registry" isn't one system: requirements and fees differ across DAC, biochar, BECCS, ERW and mineralization.
- What changes across pathways: permanence evidence, batch testing, measurement uncertainty, delivery and reversal risk.
- The developer's trade-off: faster, lower-cost registration versus higher-cost, higher-recognition certification.
- What buyers look at beyond the label: delivery record, MRV transparency, chain of custody, methodology maturity.
- Maximising value through documented co-benefits — soil health, energy co-generation, weathering rates — what registries require.
- A practical registry-selection framework: cost, timeline, data readiness, buyer recognition and audit burden.