Opening keynote address

How the world’s largest dairy exporter manages carbon
Andrew Ferrier, Chief Executive Officer, Fonterra Co-operative Group

Domestic policy update

Moderator: Martijn Wilder, Head Global Environmental Markets Practice, Baker & McKenzie

New Zealand: The Emissions Trading Scheme: performance & outlook
Hon Dr Nick Smith, Minister for Climate Change Issues

Australia: Securing a Clean Energy Future: Australia’s Climate Change Plan
Hon Mark Dreyfus QC, MP Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change & Energy Efficiency

Primary Market Issues

New Zealand Business in 2020
Phil O'Reilly, Chief Executive, BusinessNZ and Chair, Ministerial Advisory Group on Green Growth

Energy markets
Session Chair: Jo Hume, Investment Analyst, CVC Managers Ltd

Review of delivered energy prices, price drivers & forecast demand
Implications for technology, renewables, distributed generation & demand side management

• Australia & New Zealand: Dennis Barnes, Chief Executive, Contact Energy
• Asia: Gwen Andrews, Vice President Power & Environment Policies Asia & O
ceania, Alstom Power Systems

Carbon and the land based economy

Session Chair: Wayne McNee, Director General, NZ Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry

• Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases: Harry Clark, Director, New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre

• Australian Carbon Farming Initiative & land use implications for Australia: Maya Stuart-Fox, Assistant Secretary, Carbon Farming Policy Branch, Department of Climate Change & Energy Efficiency

• NZ ETS & Land use implications for New Zealand: Suzi Kerr, Senior Fellow, Motu Economic & Public Policy Research

Panel discussion

Panel

Moderator: Simon Watt, Partner, Bell Gully

Panel members:
• Manufacturing: Hans Buwalda, Environment Health & Safety Manager, Fletcher Building
• Trade exposed: Ray Deacon, Director, NZ Aluminium Smelters
• Transport Fuels: Sharon Buckland, Policy Government & Public Affairs Manager, Chevron NZ
• Corporate Forestry: Greg Adlam, Chief Executive Officer, CO2
• Finance: Duncan Southwell, BNZ Client Solutions & Advisory

Closing Remarks from Host: Colin James, Political Journalist & Analyst

Breakfast presentation
The Australian Carbon Pricing Mechanism: a deeper analysis

Baker & McKenzie’s Martijn Wilder will chair an informal Q &A discussion with Anthea Harris, Chief Adviser, Climate Strategy & Markets Division,

International business case studies: developments within key trading partner economies
Case studies

Moderator: Ben Waters, Director ecomagination, GE Australia/NZ

What are best practice government policy mechanisms internationally?
Case studies
• What is the business case for your internal climate change strategy?
• What are the key government climate change policies?
• How do these impact your business and how are they managed?
• What are the opportunities & impacts for Australian & New Zealand businesses?
China: Zheng Xipeng, Vice General Manager, Sinocarbon Innovation & Investment Co.Ltd.
Japan: Alison Rowe, Global Executive Director Sustainability, Fujitsu
California: Kate Beardsley, Manager Regulatory Relations, Pacific Gas & Electric
Korea: Dr Sang Hee Yoo, Senior Managing Director, Future & Growth Research Center, POSCO Research Institute

Discussion

Stream B: Carbon markets & Finance
Designing & reviewing carbon pricing

Session Chair: Nigel Brunel, Head of Carbon and Energy, OMF

• International carbon market update: Ashley Lawson, Carbon Market Analyst North America, Thomson Reuters Point Carbon
• Post 2012 carbon markets: what can the UN negotiations deliver? Dr Adrian Macey, Chair UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol Negotiations
• Australian and NZ market development: Geoff Rousel, Executive Director Commodities, Carbon & Energy, Westpac Institutional Bank
• Potential for international linkage of NZ scheme: Stuart Calman, Director of Climate and Risk, Ministry for the Environment

Stream B: Carbon markets & Finance
Climate finance

Session Chair: Anne–Maree O’Connor, Head of Responsible Investment, Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation

• Global institutional investor 2011 research report: Climate change scenarios – implications for strategic asset allocation: Helga Birgden, Head of Responsible Investment Asia Pacific, Mercer
• International green bonds update: engaging mainstream investors: Sean Lucy, Head of Origination, Environmental Finance Solutions, National Australia Bank
• Venture capital funding for Cleantech in Australia & New Zealand: Ivor Frischknecht, Investment Director, Starfish Ventures
• Case study: The IVANPAH project

Stream B: Carbon markets & Finance
Panel discussion: communicating the role of carbon pricing in climate change action

Moderator: Neil Green, Managing Partner, Senate Communications
• Communication best practices
• Identifying business benefits & opportunities to take action
• The policy environment: politics & posturing
• How to make the transition

Panellists:
International: Katie Mandes, Vice President Communications, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Australia / NZ: Joanne Woo, Corporate Communications Director,

Closing Plenary Address

Speaker Introduction: Dr Adrian Macey, Chair, UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol Negotiations

Next steps: where to from here? Expectations for COP 17 in Durban South Africa.
Contributions of domestic action into the international negotiations

Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC (via video)