Event brochure - The Wetland Carbon Partnership

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Bring your team – register two delegates
and the third goes free!
2nd Annual
Forestry, Biomass
& Sustainability 2011
Investment opportunities and carbon reductions
London, 12 & 13 May
• Hear from 30+ industry experts – benefit from their
first-hand experience
• Gain a deep understanding of the current market
situation facing forestry and biomass
• Participate in a varied interactive programme –
including numerous panel sessions and case studies
• Unrivalled networking – meet and do business with the
key players in forestry and biomass
Attend for a full analysis of recent
developments in policy, economics
and financing of forestry and
biomass projects, and to identify
new investment opportunities and
risks in these rapidly growing markets.
Top-level industry speakers including:
• Pat Snowdon, Head of Economics
and Climate Change,
UK Forestry Commission
• Benjamin Singer, Forest Affairs Officer,
UN Forum on Forests Secretariat
• Phil Cottle, Managing Director, ForestRe
• Marko Katila, Partner, Dasos Capital
• Roland Pfeuti, Senior Investment
Director, SAM Private Equity
• Robert Falls, Chairman & CEO,
ERA Carbon Offsets
• Peter Rechberger, Bioenergy Expert,
European Biomass Association
• Andrew Hedges, Chair, REDD+ Working
Group, CMIA; Partner, Norton Rose
• Nicholas Martin, Chief Technical Officer,
American Carbon Registry
• Andrew Mitchell, Director,
Global Canopy Programme
• Leslie Durschinger, Founder &
Managing Director, Terra Global Capital
and many more . . .
Sponsors
American
Carbon
Registry
Supporters
Identify new investment opportunities and risks in these rapidly growing markets!
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Day One Thursday 12 May
8.00 Registration and networking breakfast
8.45 Opening of conference & Chairman’s welcome address
Mark Campanale, Director, Four Elements Capital
8.50 OPENING PRESENTATION: The changing role
of forestry
• Ecosystem services
• Forestry and climate change
• The UK’s Woodland Carbon Task Force
• Standards & sustainability
• Understand new markets and customers
Pat Snowdon, Head of Economics and
Climate Change, UK Forestry Commission
9.15 PANEL DISCUSSION: The role of forests in a
green economy
Mads Asprem, Managing Director, Green Resources
Roland Pfeuti, Senior Investment Director,
SAM Private Equity
Alice Chapple, Director of Sustainable
Financial Markets, Forum for the Future
10.00 Europe’s response to International Year of Forests
David Ellul, Associate Economic Affairs Officer,
Forestry and Timber Section,
UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
10.30 Morning break & networking
11.00 PANEL DISCUSSION: Finance for sustainable forestry
• Forestry as an asset class
• Sustainability criteria
• Investor trends and drivers
• Analysis of income streams from forests
• Aims and achievements of new forestry funds
• Where next for sustainable forestry investment?
• Forestry for long-term investors
Darius Sarshar, Co-Portfolio Manager, Tropical Asia
Forest Fund, New Forests Asset Management
Marko Katila, Partner, Dasos Capital
Mark Campanale, Director, Four Elements Capital
Simon Petley, Director, EnviroMarket
Amy Merrill, Managing Associate,
Climate Change Practice, Linklaters
12.00 UN Forum on Forests
Benjamin Singer, Forest Affairs Officer,
United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat
12.30 Lunch & networking
13.45 PANEL DISCUSSION: Forestry and the
carbon markets
• REDD+ – outcomes from Cancun
• Mandatory versus voluntary markets
• New Zealand, Australia, California/WCI
• Forestry projects in the CDM
Leslie Durschinger, Founder &
Managing Director, Terra Global Capital
Jonathan Shopley, Managing Director and
External Affairs, The CarbonNeutral Company
Robert Falls, Chairman & CEO, ERA Carbon Offsets
Andres Espejo, Forestry Sector Development Manager,
DNV Climate Change Services
Forestry, Biomass
& Sustainability 2011
Investment opportunities and carbon reductions
14.30 CASE STUDY: Forest carbon
Nicholas Embden, Carbon Certification Manager,
Green Resources
Joshua Bishop, Chief Economist, IUCN
15.30 Afternoon break & networking
16.00 Standards for forest carbon projects
• Key concerns
• Comparison of the leading standards
• ACR, CAR, CCBA, VCS etc
Nicholas Martin, Chief Technical Officer,
American Carbon Registry
16.30 Monitoring, reporting & verification
• Availability of forest data
• Recent developments in satellite observations
Nicholas Berry, Senior Ecosystem Analyst, Ecometrica
“Complete and well-thought out programme.
Very good content and insights from experienced
practitioners.”
Patrick Maio
Founder and Managing Partner
Hinicio Sustainable Energy Consulting
17.00 Hedging and managing risk of forestry assets
• Modelling forestry risks
• Risk transfer for forestry, forest biofuels and
forest carbon
• Insurance of forestry assets
Phil Cottle, Managing Director, ForestRe
17.30 Close of Day One
Day Two Friday 13 May
9.00 Chairman’s welcome
Michael Woods, Principal Advisor, Irbaris
9.15 PANEL DISCUSSION: Connecting forestry, biomass
and carbon
• Biomass projects in the CDM
• Role of the carbon markets in protecting forests
• Methane capture projects in the CDM
• Biomass projects for small-scale power generation
Andrew Hedges, Chair, REDD+ Working Group, CMIA;
Partner, Norton Rose
Mike Bess, Africa Chairman, Camco
Olivia Fussell, Managing Director, CINCS
Jamal Gore, Chair, General Policy Working Group,
ICROA; Managing Director, Carbon Clear
10.00 Bioenergy in the EU
• Update on trends in bioenergy
• Bioenergy targets and incentive mechanisms
• Impact of bioenergy in EU ETS
Peter Rechberger, Bioenergy Expert,
European Biomass Association (AEBIOM)
10.30 Morning break & networking
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Forestry, Biomass
& Sustainability 2011
Investment opportunities and carbon reductions
11.00 Recent trends in wood energy
• Developments in biomass power
• Coal, power, carbon & pellet prices
• Competing demand for residues
e.g. pulp, paper and solid wood products
versus biopower and biofuel
John Bingham, Research Director, Hawkins Wright
11.30 PANEL DISCUSSION: Financing mechanisms for
biomass projects
• Regulatory drivers and incentive programmes
• Bankability aspects (revenue drivers, fuel supply,
contracting structure, technology risk, etc)
Graham Stuart, Partner,
Environmental Markets, Baker & McKenzie
Mark Henderson, Project & Infrastructure Finance,
Capital Markets Division, Investec Bank
12.15 Lunch & networking
13.30 Wood energy in the UNECE region: status
and trends
• Preliminary results of the Joint Wood Energy Enquiry
• European Forest Sector Outlook Study
• Overview of the role of woody biomass in national
renewable energy policies
David Ellul, Associate Economic Affairs Officer,
Forestry and Timber Section,
UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
14.00 CASE STUDY: Wood energy
• Large and small scale power production
• Developments in CHP projects
Calum Wilson, Managing Director, Forth Energy
14.30 Forest footprint disclosure project
• Uncovering information for investors
• Major corporate causes of deforestation
• Update on 2010 disclosure report
• Progress since 2009
Andrew Mitchell, Director, Global Canopy
Programme; Chairman, FFD Steering Committee
15.15 Afternoon break & networking
15.45 PANEL DISCUSSION: Forests & Biodiversity
• Outcome from the Convention on Biodiversity
conference in Nagoya
• Potential payment for ecosystem services
• Corporate case studies
• REDD+
Alexa Morrison, Governance and Policy,
Plan Vivo Foundation
Hassen Bali, Vice President,
Environmental Markets, Markit
Duncan Macqueen, Head of Forest Team, IIED
Michael Woods, Principal Advisor, Irbaris
16.30 Biochar
• Potential for carbon sequestration
• Role in sustainable development
• Latest research
Jim Hammond, Research Assistant, UK Biochar
Research Centre (UKBRC), School of Geosciences,
University of Edinburgh
17.15 Close of Conference
Key benefits of attending
• 30+ top-level panelists and speakers from industry
and government.
• Hear first-hand accounts from those already investing
in sustainable forestry & biomass projects – gain a deep
understanding of the current market situation, learn
about the opportunities to seize, and the pitfalls to avoid.
• Participate in a varied interactive programme – put
your pressing questions to the panellists, debate the
issues that are most important to you and your business,
benchmark your strategies against those of your peers
and competitors.
• Network with the key players in forestry and
biomass – meet, share knowledge, build partnerships.
• 3-for-2 offer – bring your team – register two delegates
and a third attends free.
About the sponsors
American
Carbon
Registry
American Carbon Registry (ACR), a
non-profit enterprise of Winrock
International, is a leading global carbon
offset program recognised for its strong
standards for environmental integrity and its
innovation of new offset project types. A host of Fortune 500
companies, non-profit organisations and mission-driven
institutions seeking a premium brand trust ACR to ensure offset
quality. Founded in 1996 as the first private voluntary greenhouse
gas registry in the world, ACR has 15 years of experience in the
development of rigorous, science-based carbon offset standards
and methodologies as well as carbon offset issuance,
serialisation and transparent on-line retirement reporting.
ERA is a Canadian pioneer in forest
restoration and conservation carbon offset
projects. The company’s Community
Ecosystem Restoration Program located in
the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia, began in 2005 in the
District of Maple Ridge, and has grown to include five communities
including Metro Vancouver. ERA has delivered over 1,000,000
tonnes of carbon offsets to the voluntary market and is engaged in
forest carbon projects in Canada, Africa, New Zealand and the
Hawaiian Islands. ERA’s carbon offsets are being validated to the
ISO 14064, CCBA, PFSI-VER and VCS standards.
Irbaris is a specialist advisory
business that brings together a
highly-experienced, multidisciplinary
team of business
advisers with deep international expertise in carbon, climate
change and wider sustainability issues such as biodiversity
protection, water resources and sustainable forestry, as well as
clean technologies. Irbaris helps companies, governments and
entrepreneurs to address the strategic, commercial and financial
issues created by managing carbon and adapting to the
changing climate. Irbaris is headquartered in London, has an
office in Washington DC, and is actively working in Europe, North
America, Africa and Central Asia.
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Forestry, Biomass
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