Summit Agenda 2027
PARALLEL SESSION - APAC Carbon Removals: From Innovation to Investable Supply
13:30-13:50
(20 mins)
Keynote: Biochar at Scale: Can APAC Turn Waste Streams into Durable Carbon Removal Supply?
13:50-14:50
(60 mins)
Panel: Beyond Big Tech: Can Corporate Offtakes Make Durable CDR Bankable?
- One buyer still represented 43% of disclosed durable CDR purchases in Q1 2026, exposing continued demand concentration.
- 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 CDR Scale Race: Which Removal Pathways Can Deliver Bankable Supply by 2030?
- CDR pathways compete for capital — scalability, permanence and delivery certainty will determine winners.
- Which technologies can move beyond pilots into reliable, financeable supply?
- How should buyers compare cost, permanence, delivery risk and portfolio value across different removal pathways?
- Can APAC develop competitive, high-integrity CDR supply chains for global demand?
- What market conditions — policy support, infrastructure and private capital — are needed to move first-of-a-kind projects toward scale?
15:50–16:20
(30 mins)
Coffee Break
16:20–17:10
(50 mins)
Panel: Feedstock Before Finance: The Bankability Test for Biomass-Based CDR
- Which feedstock volumes remain financeable after seasonality, existing uses, collection losses and transport costs?
- How are SAF, power and pulp markets repricing residues expected by biochar and BECCS projects?
- Which supply agreements protect projects against volume shortfalls, quality variation, contamination and price escalation?
- What sourcing evidence must pass investor, registry and lifecycle-assessment diligence before capital is committed?
- Can diversified sourcing improve resilience without weakening traceability, safeguards or operating margins?
17:10–18:10
(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.