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Pre-Expo workshop: Background briefing on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), policy and market
developments
This workshop is designed to provide participants with an introduction to the carbon market, including:
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Chair: Brett Janissen, Executive Director, AETF
Brett Janissen, Executive Director, AETF – Fundamentals of emissions trading and the CPRS
Geoff Leeper, Deputy Secretary, Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority (ACCRA) Group, Australian Government
Department of Climate Change
Ilona Millar, Senior Associate, Baker & McKenzie – Background to lead up to Copenhagen – what’s on the table?
Richard Doyle, Division Director, Macquarie Bank – Finance market issues for the Australian CPRS – Observations regarding how business needs to engage with this evolving market in the lead-up to Copenhagen
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Pre-Expo Workshop: The Clean Development Mechanism and The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
In the lead-up to the CPRS this workshop provides an in depth overview of the rules governing the Clean Development Mechanism
and the Creation and sale of CERs (by Baker & McKenzie) and on accessing the CER market and structuring CDM deals (by
Macquarie Bank)
This will be followed by a roundtable discussion involving experienced participants in the CDM market who will share their
experiences:
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Chair: Martijn Wilder, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
Richard Doyle, Division Director, Macquarie Bank
Sudipta Das, Global Lead Partner, CDM, Ernst & Young, India
Michael Wiener, Director Operations, Perenia
Arek Sinanian, National Technical Executive, Climate Change, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Garth Taylor, Trade Commissioner for ASEAN, Austrade, Kuala Lumpur |


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Australia’s National Authority for the CDM and JI and the Australian National Registry of Emissions Units (ANREU) -
an information session hosted by the Australian Government’s Department of Climate Change
The information session will explain the National Authority’s role in approving participation in CDM and JI projects as well as the
operation of the ANREU
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Karen Gould - Director, International Emissions Trading Section, Department of Climate Change
Nick Linacre - Director , Carbon Market Operations Section, Department of Climate Change
Angela Hudson - Assistant Director, Allocations Section, Department of Climate Change
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WS1.1
Australia’s Carbon Pollution Reduction
Scheme (CPRS)
Australia’s CPRS – a practical look at assessing
carbon footprint and managing emissions reduction
liabilities
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Chair: Lorraine Stephenson, Oceania Climate
Change Leader, Ernst & Young
Richard Doyle, Division Director, Macquarie Bank
Damien Lockie, Faculty of Law, Bond University
Dan O’Sullivan, Manager, Queensland
Department of Employment, Economic
Development & Innovation
Anne Casamento, Manager - Carbon Market |


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WS1.2
‘Global green new deal’- opportunities
and risks for investors
Climate change opportunities and risks for investors
- tackling climate change and rebuilding economies
with targeted investment
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Chair: Fiona Wain, CEO, Environment Business
Australia
Geoff Sinclair, Global Head of Carbon Sales &
Trading, Standard Bank
David Tow, CEO, Perenia
Julian Poulter, Business Director, The Climate
Institute
Peter O’Meara, Managing Director, Carbon
Alliance
Bo Nilsson, Manager, ABB |


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WS1.3
Removing legacy carbon from the
atmosphere
Part 1 - Forest establishment & avoided
deforestation
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Chair: Andrew Grant, Managing Director, CO2
Australia
Rodrigo Sales, Partner, Baker & McKenzie, São
Paulo, Brazil
Dr David Brand, Managing Director, New Forests
Peter Balsarini, CEO, Carbon Conscious
Peter Cosier, Executive Director, Wentworth
Group of Concerned Scientists
Jason Howes, Associate Director, Macquarie Capital
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WS2.1
Clean Development Mechanism
Generating & managing CDM compliance offsets
under the CPRS
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Chair: Martijn Wilder, Partner,
Baker & McKenzie
Sudipta Das, Global Lead Partner, CDM, Ernst &
Young, India – CDM project developer perspective
John Marlow, Global Head of Environmental Financial Products, Macquarie Bank, London
Noel Peters, Climate Change Manager, Australia &
New Zealand, DNV Climate Change Services |


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WS2.2
Carbon market infrastructure
In developing carbon markets trading must be
supported by infrastructure including registers,
trading platforms, exchanges and brokers
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Chair: Ken Edwards, Founder, Nextgen
David Krsevan, Manager, Energy &
Environmental Markets, Australian Securities
Exchange
Patrick Birley, CEO, European Climate Exchange,
London
Alexa Paton, Evolution Markets, London
Vincent Cornes, CEO, Envex
Philippe Chauvancy, Sales Director, BlueNext,
France
Sascha Bloemhoff, Commercial Director, Climex,
Amsterdam Philippe Chauvancy, Sales Director, BlueNext, France |


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WS2.3
Removing legacy carbon from the
atmosphere
Part 2 - Soil carbon and biosequestration
Negotiating a broader inclusion of soil and
biosequestration of carbon in international
mechanisms and trading schemes
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Chair: John White, Executive Director, Ignite
Energy Resources
Tony Lovell, CEO, Soil Carbon (rangeland
management)
Professor Leigh Sullivan, Director, Plantstone
(phyto silica carbon)
Dr Brian Keating, Director, CSIRO Sustainable
Agriculture Flagship, CSIRO (landscape carbon)
John Ridley, CEO, Ocean Nourishment (ocean
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WS3.1
Cleaner fossil fuels
Cleaning up the abundant supply – the latest
technologies; and how carbon markets will drive
investment in cleaner fossil fuel projects
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Chair: Vanessa Guthrie, Vice President -
Sustainable Development, Woodside
Andreas Walewski, Director (Corporate),
Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilisers (coal gasifi cation
technology)
Tony St Clair, Agri Business Manager, MBD Energy
(carbon capture and biomimicry storage)
Peter Hanley, Division Director, Macquarie Capital
Andrew Beatty, Partner, Baker and McKenzie
Martin Oettinger, Process Manager, ZeroGen
Stuart Booker, Assistant Under Treasurer,
Commercial Division, Queensland Department of
Treasury |


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WS3.2
The voluntary market
Experiences from market players – the future of
the voluntary market after the introduction of the
CPRS; how will voluntary markets operate within
the context of developing compliance markets?
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Chair: Corinne Boone, Managing Director,
Environment & Community Interface, HATCH,
Canada
Jochen Gassner, Director Climate Neutral,
First Climate Group, Germany
David Sag, Founder & Executive Director,
Carbon Planet
Freddy Sharpe, CEO, Climate Friendly
Ann Smith, GM Technical, carboNZero,
New Zealand
Adrian Ward, Senior Manager, Carbon and
Renewable Advice & Trading, Ecofund Queensland |


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WS3.3
Energy efficiency
The environmental and economic benefi ts
from systemic energy effi ciency; what are the
opportunities and limitations for investment in
energy effi ciency within the context of developing
carbon markets?
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Chair: Darren Bilsborough, Director
Sustainability, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Jon Jutsen, Founder, Energetics
Peter Dormand, City Energy & Resource
Manager, Newcastle City Council
Peter James, ESD Manager, Arup
Brendan Bateman, Partner, Clayton Utz |
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