The trade fair has a lot to offer, with a top-notch supporting program in addition to what is on the exhibitor’s stands. Here you will find an initial overview of what will be in store for you in a 3 days program comprehensively grouped into three streams, featuring over 250 speakers in 9 plenaries and 27 workshops.

Conference program - The roadmap to global carbon & energy markets

As the reality of living in a different, more fragmented, yet still dynamic, greenhouse gas market comes closer, the CARBON EXPO 2012 Conference Program will give you exposure and insights into national situation reports, updates on policies complementary to trading, interfaces between trading and other international policies and developments, and aspects of the trading and climate change agendas that need to be developed or re-thought.

Gather and keep updated on current issues and trends, the shifting focus on the world’s engagement with climate change through pricing and market mechanisms, on the efforts of governments around the world and how these fit into the global climate change agenda - as the market gets more mature and essentially, more complex.

Within a 3 days program comprehensively grouped into three streams, featuring over 250 speakers in 9 plenaries and 27 workshops, find below initial overview of what will be in store for you:

• State and Trends of the Global Carbon and Energy Market
• The Energy and Carbon Market Ecosystems
• Game-Changer – Australia’s New Emissions Trading Laws
• China’s Ambitious Timeline to Pilot Carbon Trading
• Japan’s Bilateral Offsetting Credit Mechanism (BOCM)
• The Voluntary Market – The Only One Expanding
• Potential Market Impacts of CCS on CDM
• The Reformation of CDM – Impacts in Under-represented Countries
• Private Sector Engagement and Climate Finance Effectiveness
• Building Trust, Bridging the Gap between Environment, Development and Finance Communities
• Changes in MRV – Creating a Fully Interchangeable Commodity Within and Across Trading Schemes?
• Keeping Track of Carbon Units Post 2012
• The Impact of New Industries to Carbon
• Trading in EU ETS Phase 3
• Reducing Emissions in the International Maritime Transport Sector – Creating the First Global Measures
• PoAs and National Action Plans for Developing Countries
• Carbon Taxing in the Air – Sustainable
• Development of International Aviation
• Sub-National Schemes – From California to Ontario to Tokyo
• Realizing the Potential of REDD+
• Designing of the Green Climate Fund - The First Draft
• Sectoral Approaches and Scaling-up Mitigation Activities: How Long Until Investability?
• Renewable Energy Certifi cates (RECs) – Potential New Market Mechanisms

What makes Carbon Expo so special?

• A professional business and matchmaking platform
• Properly equip yourself with the essential tools and means to get linked into the energy and carbon markets
• A global and multi-sectoral Trade Fair
• A pioneering international and interactive Conference
• Forge and consolidate your network how you want and need
• Develop successful partnerships in the energy and carbon world

Carbon Expo is the ideal location to conclude business transactions on the CO2 market.

Equip yourself with crucial information on the challenges and opportunities in the global Carbon Market

Global and Multilateral

In just eight years, this event, held at the heart of Southern Europe, the Mediterranean area and Central-South America, has established itself as the world’s leading global event for stakeholder in the Carbon Market in just five years.

In 2011, 220 exhibitors from 83 countries and around 2,800 visitors from 110 countries attended the carbon market's leading global trade fair and conference for emissions trading, carbon abatement solutions and new technologies in Barcelona for the second time.

The interface between industry and technology & climate and Carbon Finance

Industry and utilities alike are facing new low carbon requirements and responding to possibilities being created by new technologies. New business opportunities for the conventional energy and renewable energy markets need climate financing, which mixes income streams and carbon reduction, public support and private funding.

CARBON EXPO answers the questions, using an inclusive approach, and providing a platform for interface between different worlds. CARBON EXPO is where green tech scene meets the climate financing scene.

The global crossroad for climate policy development

The carbon markets are changing rapidly, as nations search for the way forward in the likely absence of Kyoto targets after 2012, debate the gains, pitfalls and future of the CDM, and strike out on their own with trading and offset schemes. As we stand on the threshold of a new phase in global climate policy, with new actors appearing on the stage, CARBON EXPO will continue to bring you the latest news, in-depth analysis of current issues and trends, and an unrivalled collection of experts from around the world, all under one roof.

Where the entire energy & carbon market value chain meets

• Business Leaders & Senior Executives
• Government Offi cials
• Bilateral AIDS Agencies
• CDM/JI Host Countries Representatives
• Investment Promotion Agencies
• Multilateral Development Organisations
• Technology Providers
• Renewable Energy & Energy Effi ciency Industries
• Financial & Legal Corporations
• Consulting Firms
• UNFCCC Representatives
• CDM EB & JISC Members
• Lead Negotiators
• NGOs & Academia
• News Agencies & Press