Well-functioning international carbon markets can advance global climate action and accelerate deployment of nascent decarbonisation technologies.

How can carbon credits be an effective lever to unlock financing and reduce the green premium, scale up deployment of climate technologies such as green hydrogen projects, and bring to market a new supply of high-quality credits?

This panel will discuss the barriers and opportunities on green hydrogen in the context of carbon markets.

Transformational innovations are required to accelerate global decarbonisation. We must catalyse near-term solutions such as natural climate solutions, while supporting the scaling of early-stage technologies to drive decarbonisation in the longer term. New investment vehicles, radical approaches and international collaboration are critical.

This panel will showcase the breadth of decarbonisation solutions available, discuss the hurdles to scaling these innovations, and highlight the importance of new platforms and pathways in ramping up decarbonisation ambitions and actions. 

Rice cultivation contributes 10% of global man-made methane emissions, and up to one-third of the region's methane emissions in Southeast Asia where rice is a staple food. Transition to sustainable rice farming is essential to the net zero transition, and cost-effective and proven solutions to reduce rice emissions are ready for deployment.

This panel brings together various stakeholders across research, industry and investment to share their insights on the challenges and opportunities to improving the sustainability of rice cultivation.

To achieve net zero globally, Southeast Asia (SEA) must grow while decarbonising its energy and power sectors. The size of the region’s economies, as well as its power demand, are set to triple by 2050. However, fossil fuel plants still power majority of the SEA countries – contributing to 75% of its power supply. 

SEA must attract much greater energy sector investment to accelerate its clean energy transition and meet the rising demand for energy services. The panel discussion will focus on emerging clean energy project opportunities in Southeast Asia, how investors and businesses can complement public financing to unlock these opportunities, and learnings from the clean energy transitions of Southeast Asia and other emerging regions.