Summit Agenda 2027
APAC CDR Forum
— APAC Carbon Removals: From Innovation to Investable Supply
Day 2 of CFAS2027 | 24 June 2027 | 13:30–18:10 | Avani+ Riverside Bangkok
Overview
APAC has strong removal potential across biochar, BECCS, DAC and emerging pathways, but innovation alone will not create investable supply. Demand remains concentrated, project revenues uncertain, feedstock competition is intensifying, and registry requirements vary widely by pathway. Agri-food companies could add anchor demand while supporting supply-chain resilience and farmer returns, provided Scope 3 accounting boundaries remain clear.
The APAC CDR Forum brings buyers, developers, agri-food leaders, financiers, standards bodies and policymakers together to examine what makes removals credible, financeable and scalable—and how APAC can build globally competitive CDR supply by 2030.
What to Expect
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Turn corporate offtakes and buyer coalitions into bankable project revenue.
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Compare CDR pathways by cost, permanence, scalability and delivery risk.
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Test feedstock availability, agri-food integration, sourcing contracts and supply-chain resilience.
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Navigate registry selection, MRV requirements, certification costs and buyer recognition.
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Connect with leading CDR buyers, developers, financiers and market builders.
Who Should Attend
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Corporate CDR buyers and sustainability or procurement leaders
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Biochar, BECCS, DAC, ERW and mineralisation developers
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Banks, investors, insurers and carbon-market intermediaries
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Registries, standards, MRV and assurance providers
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Policymakers, researchers and biomass or feedstock suppliers
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Agri-food companies, commodity traders, farmer organisations and agricultural supply-chain leaders
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?
- Durable CDR demand remains concentrated among a few buyers, leaving project revenues and financing exposed to individual procurement decisions.
- What tenor, pricing, MRV, delivery protections and guarantees turn offtakes into bankable revenue—not single-buyer bets?
- Can buyer coalitions, intermediaries and financial institutions aggregate anchor demand while diversifying counterparty risk?
- Can agri-food companies become anchor buyers by linking durable removals to Scope 3, supply-chain resilience and farmer returns?
- Which removals belong in Scope 3 inventories, and which remain external credits—without double counting or misleading claims?
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?
Sakprayut Sinthupinyo
Green Circular Technology Director
SCG
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 bankable after seasonality, existing uses, collection losses and transport costs?
- How are SAF, power, pulp and other markets repricing residues targeted by biochar and BECCS projects?
- Which supply agreements protect against volume shortfalls, quality variation, contamination and price escalation?
- What sourcing evidence must satisfy investor, registry and lifecycle-assessment diligence before capital is committed?
- Can diversified sourcing and fair farmer revenue-sharing improve resilience without depleting soils or squeezing food supply?
17:10–18:10
(60 mins)
Technical Workshop: 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.