Summit Agenda 2027
DAY 2 — Building Bankable Carbon Markets: Assets, Demand and Climate Capital
8:30-9:00
(30 mins)
Registration & Networking
9:00-9:05
(5 mins)
Welcome by the Conference Chair
9:05-9:15
(10 mins)
Opening Keynote: From Policy to Action: Implementing Carbon Strategy Across the Enterprise
Muhamad Iqbal
Vice President of Strategic & Evaluation Procurement
PT Pupuk Indonesia (Persero)
9:15-10:05
(50 mins)
Panel: Carbon Credits as Legal Assets: Who Bears the Risk When Deals Fail?
- APAC lacks uniform legal treatment of carbon credits, leaving ownership, transfer, security interests and remedies uncertain.
- What rights does a buyer acquire—and does owning a token confer legal rights over the underlying credit?
- When credits face invalidation, reversal, failed authorisation or regulatory change, who bears the resulting financial loss?
- Which warranties, indemnities, replacement clauses, custody arrangements and due-diligence standards are needed before capital is committed?
- Can insurance and guarantees make carbon assets bankable—or do weak legal foundations leave risks that cannot be transferred?
Dr Christophe Bernasconi
Secretary General
Hague Conference on Private International Law（HCCH）
10:05-10:35
(30 mins)
Coffee Break
10:35-10:50
(15 mins)
Keynote: The New Benchmark in Blue Carbon: Continuous Digital Verification Meets Community-Led Coastal Restoration
Mark Willsey
Chief Executive Officer
Prairie Guardians
10:50-11:40
(50 mins)
Panel: The Carbon Project Bankability Gap: Is Blended Finance Reaching the Markets That Need It Most?
- Blended-finance platforms are attracting more capital, yet many carbon projects still struggle to convert catalytic support into commercial finance.
- The mobilisation paradox: capital reaches lower-risk markets more easily than the high-need markets blended finance was designed to serve.
- How should additionality and commercial viability be tested as NDCs, policies and Article 6.4 standards evolve?
- Which offtake terms, first-loss capital, guarantees, political-risk cover and Article 6 clarity genuinely change a financier's investment decision?
- Using FAST-P and country cases, which structures move projects from eligible on paper to financeable at scale?
Moderator：
Nirnita Talukdar
Asia Pacific Lead
UNEPFI
Panelists:
Dominic Pan
Managing Director
BNP Paribas
Edward Vrkić
Resident Representative
UNDP Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam
11:40-12:30
(50 mins)
Panel: Nature Carbon 2.0: Who Pays to Make APAC Supply Bankable?
- Stricter baselines, leakage deductions and jurisdictional nesting can reduce saleable volumes and reshape project economics.
- Which quantification methods, uncertainty disclosures and claims rules can restore buyer trust and withstand reputational or headline risk?
- Which floor prices, volume commitments, milestone payments and replacement provisions can share risk fairly between buyers and developers?
- How can host governments protect NDC value and community benefits while providing predictable authorisation pathways for investors?
- How can biodiversity, livelihoods and resilient agri-food supply chains create additional value without overlapping or unsubstantiated claims?
Moderator：
Alejandra Paredes Goicochea
VP of Corporate Affairs
BioCarbon Cert
Panelists:
Tamara Singh
Managing Director, Singapore
Nature Conservancy (TNC)
John Anis
Chief Executive Officer
Pertamina New & Renewable Energy
Rashyid Anwarudin
Chief Sustainability Officer
SD Guthrie
Peter Stephen
Regional Director, Asia-Pacific
EcoSecurities
Dr Kho Lip Khoon
Head of Corporate Development & Economy Division
Ministry of Energy and Environmental Sustainability (MEESty) Sarawak
12:30-13:30
(60 mins)
Lunch & Exhibition
13:30-13:50
(20 mins)
Key note: Scaling Carbon Projects through Climate Finance & Digital Monitoring
13:50-14:40
(50 mins)
Panel: Transition Credits Under Scrutiny: Can APAC’s Managed Coal Phase-Down Become Bankable?
- Emerging methodologies test whether transition credits can finance early coal retirement and reliable, low-cost renewable replacement.
- Can credits accelerate genuinely early retirement without overcompensating owners or subsidising closures that would have happened anyway?
- Which baseline, additionality, leakage and ownership rules can give buyers confidence in the claimed emissions reductions?
- Which safeguards protect workers and communities while time-bound firming supports grid reliability without creating new fossil lock-in?
- Which buyer commitments, guarantees, blended-finance and power-contract structures can turn credible pilots into scalable, bankable transactions?
Ronald Goseco
President
South Luzon Thermal Energy Corp
14:40-15:40
(60 mins)
Panel: Bringing Buyers Back: What Will Rebuild Corporate Carbon Credit Demand?
- Corporate buyers still face uncertainty over credible claims, governance, reputational risk, credit quality and legitimate use cases.
- What mix of commercial value, internal carbon pricing, executive ownership, assurance and regulatory clarity would unlock procurement at scale?
- How can SBTi’s OER support credible climate contributions alongside direct decarbonisation and align with national, sectoral and integrity frameworks?
- What mix of voluntary standards, national rules, sectoral guidance and buyer coalitions can rebuild credible demand?
- How can frameworks reward credit use that complements decarbonisation—without conflicting claims, duplicate recognition or a single route to legitimacy?
Manish Dabkara
President
Carbon Markets Association of India (CMAI)
Dan Pathomvanich
CEO, NR Instant Produce PCL (NRF)
President, Thailand Carbon Neutral Network
Hiromi Nakagawa
Manager, New Business Development
Osaka Gas
Donald Chan
Director Asia Pacific
Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)
15:40-16:10
(30 mins)
Coffee Break
16:10-17:10
(60 mins)
Closing Leadership Panel: From Carbon Exposure to Boardroom Decisions — What Will Leaders Do Differently?
- Which carbon-price, trade and customer exposures are material enough to change capital allocation, asset strategy and product decisions now?
- Where do decarbonisation and competitiveness reinforce each other—and where must leaders accept real cost, timing or execution trade-offs?
- How can procurement and supplier programmes turn Scope 3 data into measurable reductions, with clear budgets and delivery ownership?
- How should responsibilities, incentives and accountability be aligned across finance, operations, procurement and sustainability?
- What distinct roles should direct reductions, energy attribute certificates and carbon credits, including removal credits, play in transition strategies?
17:10-17:15
(5 mins)
Closing Address