Summit Agenda 2027
DAY 2 — OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE: Implementing CBAM, Carbon Sourcing Integrity & Climate Capital
8:30-9:00
(30 mins)
Registration & Networking
9:00-9:05
(5 mins)
Welcome Remarks & Summit Opening
9:05-9:15
(10 mins)
Opening Remarks: From Policy to Action: Implementing Carbon Strategy Across the Enterprise
9:15-10:15
(60 mins)
Opening Panel: CBAM Readiness & Export Competitiveness: Whose Carbon Footprint Counts by 2028?
- Product carbon footprint data is becoming a market-access requirement — exporters and EU buyers may define "audit-ready" differently.
- What CBAM-ready reporting requires today: direct emissions and relevant indirect data, not a Scope 1/2 substitute.
- Meeting the regulatory minimum may not satisfy buyers demanding verified, supplier-level data — what do verifiers actually check?
- How sectors outside CBAM's current scope, like petrochemicals, can prepare without overstating their legal exposure.
- Lessons from early movers: what data-sharing and verification mechanisms are closing the buyer-exporter trust gap.
10:15-10:40
(25 mins)
Coffee Break
10:40-10:55
(15 mins)
Key note (For sponsors/ commercials): Digital Solutions for CBAM & Carbon Reporting
10:40-11:40
(60 mins)
Panel: Market-Based Accounting Under Pressure: Will New GHG Rules Reprice RECs, EACs and Carbon Credits?
- GHG Protocol's proposed Scope 2 revision isn't final, but it's already reshaping how the market prices RECs and PPAs.
- EACs proving hourly, deliverable matching could earn a premium — creating a two-tier market before the rule is even final.
- Center for Resource Solutions warns tighter rules could raise clean energy costs; proponents say it's the only real fix.
- Could the same repricing logic reach carbon credits next, as GHG Protocol and WBCSD tighten avoided-emissions accounting?
- What APAC buyers should lock in now versus wait on, as PPA and REC markets grow under compliance and data-centre pressure.
11:40-12:30
(50 mins)
Spotlight Session: The Clean Power Squeeze: Are Data Centers Repricing RECs, PPAs and Carbon Credits for APAC Manufacturers?
- Data centres drove 17 GW of 2024's record 68 GW corporate clean energy procurement — nearly double manufacturing's 9 GW.
- APAC manufacturers need clean power and auditable data to meet CBAM's first certificate deadline of 30 September 2027.
- Even Big Tech disagrees: Meta and Amazon back impact accounting, while Google and Microsoft push for hourly-matched clean power.
- Microsoft is reportedly reconsidering its own hourly target after a gas deal — even as $1.2 trillion in investors back the rule.
- From the trading desk: how PPA and REC contracts are being repriced as data centres and manufacturers compete for capacity.
- If clean power tightens, how should manufacturers use credits without overstating what CBAM and SBTi allow them to replace?
- What procurement-grade instruments will matter by 2030 — and which are losing credibility along the way?
12:30-13:30
(60 mins)
Lunch & Exhibition
13:30-14:20
(50 mins)
The Carbon Project Bankability Gap: Is Blended Finance Reaching the Markets That Need It Most?
- Blended finance keeps growing, yet carbon projects still struggle to convert concessional capital into bankable finance.
- The mobilization paradox: capital flows easily to stable markets, but not to the highest-risk, highest-need ones.
- From the developer's side: what it takes to access finance with a limited track record and uncertain carbon revenue.
- From the buyer's side: what offtake terms and risk-sharing structures actually help a project get financed.
- FAST-P as a live test case: what Singapore's model can teach the region — and what's still unproven at scale.
- What makes projects genuinely bankable: first-loss capital, credible offtake, political risk cover, and Article 6 clarity.
14:20-14:40
(20 mins)
Key note: Scaling Carbon Projects through Climate Finance & Digital Monitoring
14:40-15:40
(60 mins)
Nature Carbon 2.0: Who Pays for Integrity in Bankable APAC Supply?
- Dynamic baselines, leakage controls and jurisdictional nesting mean fewer credits per project — and different project economics.
- Who pays the integrity premium: will buyers accept differentiated pricing for CCP-labelled, Article 6-authorised credits?
- Floor prices, volume bands, milestone payments and replacement provisions can protect both buyers and developers.
- How host governments preserve NDC value and community benefit while giving investors predictable authorisation pathways.
- Can biodiversity and livelihood outcomes add commercial value without creating an unmanageable stack of claims?
15:40-16:10
(30 mins)
Coffee Break
16:10-17:10
(60 mins)
Panel: SBTi's Billion-Tonne Question: Will Net-Zero Standard V2.0 Move Carbon Credit Demand?
- SBTi's V2.0 keeps credits outside Scope 1/2/3 targets — what can companies claim under Overall Emissions Responsibility (OER)?
- Engaged, Advanced and Leadership tiers explain the framework — but today's demand falls far short of its theoretical potential.
- OER is voluntary until 2035 — is recognition alone enough to move buyer behaviour before then?
- Buyer reality check: if credits don't count toward targets, what would make a company actually pay for recognition?
- How VCMI-style claims frameworks shape what companies can say about credits — and where greenwashing risk begins.
- What this means for APAC corporates, developers and suppliers planning demand and supply investment through 2030.
18:10-18:15
(5 mins)
Closing Speech