
First Climate hosted a side event entitled "ERPA - a hidden asset? Catalyzing carbon-backed finance" on Thursday 28 May at 18:30 in Room 5. Moderated by our Director Project Finance, Nikolaus Schultze, the discussion focused on
- ERPAs promise long-term cash flows. But who is willing to trust this promise?
- Towards privileged relationships between carbon asset developers and banks
- Compliance buyer pre-financing via special purpose cash facilities
- Underwriting ERPAs through purpose-built guarantee vehicles
- Monetizing carbon beyond 2012 by off-loading regulatory and counterparty risks
Participants were
- Luis Picas Asmarats, Banco Santander
- Markus van de Burg, Conning Asset Management
- Seiichiro Nishida, Asian Development Bank
- Geoff Sinclair, GuarantCo
- Emilio Rodriguez-Izquierdo, Zeroemissions
Nikolaus Wohlgemuth, Regional Manager Africa & Pakistan, participated in the panel discussion entitled "Attracting the Market to LDCs - Is an EU type of incentive delivery the only option? Weighing different approaches to increase CDM regional distribution" on Friday 29 May from 11:00 to 12:00.
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