Session Three: The Role of Carbon Markets, Carbon Credits and Carbon Offsets in Financing Sustainable Infrastructure in Emerging Markets

Generating carbon credits can reduce the perceived risk of investing in sustainable infrastructure projects by providing an additional revenue stream through regulated carbon markets.

Nature-based solutions can also be used to generate carbon offsets and preserve biodiversity and indigenous people’s livelihoods, there is concern about the quality of those carbon credits and that they might be double-traded.

This session will dig into some best practices around structuring investments to benefit from the income streams from selling these securities, but also how to ensure they are avoiding greenwashing by adopting best practice standards.

Session Six: Asia

To finish our discussions, we turn to the vast and complex picture that is catalysing the energy transition in Asia – the workshop of the world. The region’s energy system is very carbon intensive and faces the dual, often conflicting, challenge of addressing the rising need for affordable and reliable energy while cutting emissions. This session will survey this vast region, looking at the key risks, such as policy shortfalls, and currency risk as well as offtake risk. In this conversation, we will look at the additional need for innovation in both energy addition and energy transition, the need to scale innovative projects and how to work with governments to provide appropriate policy support and guarantees to get major projects off the ground.

Join global city leaders for a dynamic discussion on how urban planning is driving ambitious climate action around the world. Grounded in the principles of regenerative design, this mayoral panel will explore strategies to revitalise urban spaces, promote compact and walkable neighbourhoods, and embed nature-based and community-centered approaches in city development.

The panel will provide an opportunity for speakers to reflect on how CLC’s emerging Regenerative Cities Framework, in alignment with C40’s forthcoming Urban Planning Accelerator, can advance the transition to net-zero, nature-positive and socially inclusive cities