Programme

11:00 Guest Arrival & Registration

12:00 Networking Lunch

13:00 Opening Remarks

13:15 Roundtables

Carbon Removal Opportunities Across APAC

16:10 Networking Break

16:40 Fireside Chat

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

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 removalBased 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