The Event
Where Capital Meets Carbon Removal
About the Summit
APACdr Summit brings together the architects of Asia-Pacific's carbon removal economy from sovereign buyers and infrastructure financiers to technology developers and industrial operators. This is not a conference about ambition. It is a working session about architecture.
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Supported by organizations building the future of carbon management
Programme
11:00 Guest Arrival & Registration
12:00 Networking Lunch
13:00 Opening Remarks
16:10 Networking Break
16:40 Fireside Chat
17:00 Spotlight
17:45 Concluding Remarks & Networking Drinks
12:00 - 1:00pm
Networking Lunch
Opening Session
Opening Remarks
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM (15mins)
Pauline Wray
Emerald Climate
Ben Rubin
Carbon Business Council
Roundtable
Carbon Removal Opportunities in Asia Pacific
01:15 PM - 02:00 PM (45mins)
A spotlight of what deployment looks like for multiple CDR pathways highlighting the multitude of options that exist and the benefits that various CDR pathways bring to the APAC region.
Trishna Nagrani
Climeworks
Gaurav Sant
Equatic
Andrew Jones
Carba
Rhea Dabriwala
Ground Up
Dr Goetz Martin
Golden Agri-Resources
Discussion Themes
Industrial SystemsMaterialsWaste-to-ValueLand Use
Roundtable
Institutional & Market Architecture
Market Design, Demand Formation & Capital Flows
2:05 PM - 03:00 PM (55mins)
The discussion is anchored on a few observations, the foundations for carbon removal markets are already in place, regulation is being shaped, demand has been catalyzed (advance buyers), and supply is growing. The opportunity is not just projects themselves, but include where companies base regional operations, how projects are financed and aggregated, and how the next phase of scale including M&A is structured. This is particularly relevant for financial hubs such as Singapore, but also Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London...
Chairs: Reuben Manokara & Pauline Wray
Adil Hakeem
Singapore National Climate Change Secretariat
Lukas May
Isometric
Chris Leeds
Standard Chartered
Julie Mansfield
Carbonfuture
Greg Adams
Chestnut Carbon
Dave Moyes
Carbon Removal Partners
Prateek Tiwari
Alcom
Stella Cheng
HaiQi New Energy Group
Rueban Manokara
WWF
Discussion Themes
Financing structures & aggregationMarket infrastructure & MRVPortfolio constructionRegional coordination & interoperabilityInternational hubs & procurement
Roundtable
Operational & Industrial Integration
Interdependencies Between Carbon Removal, Fuels & Transport Infrastructure
3:05 PM - 03:55 PM (50mins)
The discussion will cover industrial continuity, fuel uncertainty, infrastructure lock-in, trade competitiveness, carbon intensity, future customer requirements, operational resilience, financing and market infrastructure.
Sylvia Low
1PointFive
Steven Bartholomeusz
Neste
Capt. Chaitanya Bhatia
Norden
Tetsuya Kakinuma
NYK Line
Michael Harte
CaptureNow
David Gillers
Carbon Measures
Discussion Themes
Fuel uncertainty & infrastructure lock-inIndustrial resilienceCarbon intensity across supply chainsTrade competitivenessHybrid transition pathways
Fireside chat
From Land to Asset Class
This session is designed to anchor the broader programme by grounding the discussion in the reality of nature-based carbon removal in APAC, specifically, how we move from land-based activity to something that can be understood, validated, and financed as an asset class.
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM (30mins)
Geoffrey Seeto
New Forests
Murray Collins
Space Intelligence
Julia Strong
Symbiosis
Discussion Themes
MRVCarbon Finance
Spotlight
Policy, Trade, and Industrial Levers Shaping Carbon Removal in Asia Pacific
5:05 - 5:50pm
Thomas Bellec
ClimeFi
Antti Vihavainen
Puro.earth
Francesco Guglielmi
Exomad Green
Joanna Yeo
Arukah Capital
Discussion Themes
Energy SecurityPolicy DesignTradeCompetitivenessCircularity
6:00 - 7:00pm
Networking Drinks
Delegates across finance, industry, policy and carbon removal Based on confirmed registrations as of 10 May
Abatable AFRY Allied Offsets Always Carbon ANGEA Anthesis Group Arukah Capital Artemeter Asia Carbon Institute Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC) Asian Development Bank Banyu Carbon BBASE BeZero Carbon Blue Bond Accelerator Boomitra BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group Bursa Malaysia Canopy Generation Fund Canopy Generation Fund Capture6 CaptureNow Carba Carbon Business Council Carbon Removal Partners Carbonfuture Cercabono Chevron CIMB Circle Capital ClimeFi Climeworks Conservation International De-Carbon Economic Board of Singapore EcoRegistry Edufarmers Foundation Emerald Climate Equatic Exomad Green FlueVault Genzero GoNetZero Golden Agri Grameen Impact Investments Ground-Up Haiqi IDH Investment Management Investible Investors for Climate Isometric Khazanah Nasional Berhad LASALLE LepakInSG Mandai Nature Midori Partner Mirova MSCI Neuberger Berman Neste New Forests Nippon Life Insurance Norden Novara Capital Olam Agri Oliver Wyman Patch Petrobras Planetsavers PT Orimba Alam Kreasi Puro Earth Pyrogreen RO-SE S&P Global SATS SCG Schneider Electric Serendib Assets Shell Singapore Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment Singapore Prime Minister's Office SkyTree Space Intelligence Standard Chartered Temasek Tengah Island Conservation Terrafixing The Climate Group Tree Media Group Valor Carbon Vertex Holdings Vycarb Wealth Management Institute Wovoka WWF
Carbon Business Council a leader in CDR scale
Ecosystem
The world's largest carbon removal industry coalition 150+ member companies spanning direct air capture, enhanced weathering, biochar, ocean-based removal, and forest carbon, across North America, Europe, Asia, and beyond.
Trusted Convenor
From shaping the first CDR procurement frameworks to convening buyers and suppliers around shared quality standards, CBC has built the institutional infrastructure that serious carbon removal markets require.
Industry Voice
CBC speaks directly to regulators, sovereign wealth funds, corporate sustainability officers, and philanthropic capital, translating technical complexity into policy-ready language and investment-grade narratives.
Emerald Climate market design for systems in transition
Policy
Working alongside the Carbon Business Council through the APACdr Working Group, Emerald Climate is building the regional policy architecture for carbon removal from Article 6 bilateral frameworks to national CDR roadmaps.
Industry Demand
Engaging directly with aviation, shipping, steel, and financial services associations to translate net-zero commitments into durable CDR procurement creating the demand signal that project developers and investors need to move.
Capacity Building
In partnership with Tree+, producers of award-winning environmental documentaries, Emerald Climate is building public literacy and stakeholder trust in carbon removal across the Asia-Pacific region.
