Summit Agenda 2027
DAY 1 — Strategic Navigation of APAC Climate Markets – Addressing Global Challenges through Policy, Integrity and Scale
8:30-9:00
(30 mins)
Registration & Networking
9:00-9:05
(5 mins)
Welcome Remarks & Summit Opening
9:05-9:15
(10 mins)
Co-host Opening Remarks: The Next Chapter of Carbon Markets - How Carbon Value is Redefining APAC Corporate Competitiveness
9:15-9:30
(15 mins)
Global Policy Briefing: Navigating the New Carbon Economy - International Policy Developments Reshaping APAC Trade and Investment
9:30-9:40
(10 mins)
Opening Keynote: Unraveling the Complexity of Article 6 - Designing Legal Infrastructures for Cross-Border Carbon Assets
9:40-10:40
(60 mins)
Opening Panel: Carbon’s New Trade Divide: Who Leads APAC—and Who Falls Behind?
- Carbon pricing now shapes trade exposure, investment priorities and competitiveness across APAC’s most emissions-intensive sectors.
- CBAM, CORSIA and Article 6 create distinct requirements but increasingly reward verified data and credible carbon assets.
- Early compliance can protect market access and financing confidence, while delayed action raises transition costs and execution risk.
- Will APAC shape interoperable carbon rules, or remain a price-taker under standards designed elsewhere?
10:40-11:10
(30 mins)
Coffee Break (30m)
11:10-12:10
(60 mins)
Panel: One Region, Many Carbon Markets: Can APAC Align Without Lowering Ambition?
- APAC carbon pricing is expanding but remains fragmented across national ETSs, carbon taxes and subnational schemes.
- Linkage can deepen liquidity or transmit weak price signals, depending on cap design and safeguards.
- China plans selective absolute caps from 2027, testing how tighter supply could reshape price formation and liquidity.
- CBAM allows deductions for carbon prices paid abroad—will trade pressure strengthen APAC ETS design or merely redirect revenue?
- Credible linkage requires comparable ambition, robust MRV and safeguards against leakage, double counting and market manipulation.
- Fragmented carbon-pricing regimes impose duplicated data, hedging, compliance and investment costs on companies operating across APAC.
12:10-13:10
(60 mins)
Lunch & Exhibition
13:10-13:30
(20 mins)
Keynote (for sponsors/commercial): ERP & Carbon Data Integration: Automating PCF and Scope 3 Emission Calculation Across Suppliers
13:10-14:10
(60 mins)
Carbon Competitiveness in APAC: Whose Playbook Wins by 2030?
- Across APAC, carbon taxes, emerging ETSs and industrial policies are creating different routes to competitiveness.
- Singapore’s higher carbon-price signal and Thailand’s phased market development create distinct transition opportunities and execution risks.
- Utilities face asset-transition risk, while agri-traders face traceability, land-use and supply-chain credibility pressures.
- Carbon competitiveness increasingly depends on verified data, credible transition plans and access to lower-carbon infrastructure.
- By 2030, will leaders win through regulatory foresight, operational data, low-carbon assets or redesigned supply chains?
14:10-15:00
(50 mins)
Executive Fireside Chat: From Policy Signals to Bankable Projects: Singapore and Indonesia’s Transition Finance Pathways
- Singapore combines carbon taxation, limited international-credit use and Article 6 procurement to create clearer demand for climate investment.
- Indonesia uses state-owned energy platforms to aggregate projects, but concentrated policy, offtake and execution risks may constrain private capital.
- Bankable pipelines depend on authorisation, registries, revenue contracts and project delivery working as one investable system.
- Across APAC, genuine de-risking means reducing specific investor risks—not announcing policies without executable projects.
- Which pathway mobilises capital faster: strong central price signals, state-led project aggregation or a hybrid of both?
15:00-15:30
(30 mins)
Coffee Break (30m)
15:30-15:50
(20 mins)
Keynote: The Flight to Quality - Rating Methodologies, Price Discovery and Integrity Premiums for Regional Carbon Assets
15:50-16:50
(60 mins)
Too Many Venues, Too Little Liquidity: Can APAC Build Credible Carbon Benchmarks?
- APAC carbon credits span growing venues, yet fragmented demand continues to prevent reliable reference prices.
- Real price discovery requires repeat buyers, transparent transactions, standardised contracts, defined product categories and sufficient market depth.
- Exchange listings create access—not liquidity—without committed demand and active liquidity providers.
- Weak price signals complicate corporate budgeting, procurement timing, portfolio valuation and risk management.
- Tokenisation may improve traceability, but additional venues can fragment liquidity when governance and demand remain weak.
- Can APAC develop credible benchmarks while preserving differences in project quality, authorisation status and delivery risk?
16:50-17:40
(50 mins)
Closing Panel: Carbon Procurement Under Uncertainty: What Can APAC Buyers Actually Hedge?
- Which listed futures, forwards and OTC structures are genuinely accessible to APAC carbon buyers today?
- What can companies hedge—and which price, eligibility, liquidity and delivery risks must they still carry?
- How should buyers budget carbon exposure when forward curves remain thin or unavailable?
- Which risks are better managed through offtakes, collars, diversification or insurance than exchange-traded products?
- Who should own carbon risk internally: sustainability, procurement, finance or treasury?
19:00-20:50
(110 mins)
Cocktail Party & Sustainability Gala Dinner