Event

First Climate at Carbon Markets Asia

Ort: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sudhir Bhat, Director Project Finance with First Climate, chaired the ‘Encouraging Investors to Asia’ panel.

This panel addressed the following issues:

- What are the barriers to investment and how can they be overcome?
- What can regulators do to encourage investment?
- What are investors looking for?


Colin Steley, Project Manager SEA, moderated the panel discussion about "Sustainable Forestry" and  discussed to what extent and in what form REDD might be incorporated in post-Kyoto CDM operations. The panel focused on:

- Standards affecting the forestry sector
- What news will Copenhagen bring the forestry sector?
- The AFLOU and its impact
- REDD
- Permanence issues
- The challenges of additionality
- Encouraging investment into forestry projects
- Monitoring the projects: an overview of the risks involved


For more information visit Carbon Markets Asia