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
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?
10:05-10:35
(30 mins)
Coffee Break
10:35-10:50
(15 mins)
Keynote (Reserved For sponsor): Case Study
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?
Dominic Pan
Managing Director
BNP Paribas
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?
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?
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?
- Could SBTi’s OER unlock billion-tonne demand—or will rebuilding the market require a broader legitimacy framework?
- 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)
15:40-16:10
(30 mins)
Coffee Break
16:10-17:10
(60 mins)
Panel: Interoperability Across RECs, Other EACs and Carbon Credits: Can It Unlock Value and Liquidity?
- RECs and other EACs support electricity claims; carbon credits represent emissions reductions or removals under separate accounting and claims rules.
- Proposed Scope 2 revisions, hourly matching and deliverability could reprice clean-energy attributes and reshape APAC procurement strategies.
- Where can registries, data standards and MRV systems connect without making fundamentally different instruments appear interchangeable?
- Can better connectivity prevent double counting, strengthen price discovery and build deeper liquidity across environmental markets?
- How should companies compare cost, emissions impact, location, timing and claim value when building environmental-attribute portfolios?
17:10-17:15
(5 mins)
Closing Address