South-East Asia’s role as a Global CDR supply hub

​Taking place at the Think Negative Pavilion

​Durable carbon removal will need supply from regions with large volumes of biomass residues, available land and competitive project costs, and South-East Asia has all three.

​This panel looks at CDR supply from the host-country side: what governments want from it, which tools they are using, and what they need from buyers and the market to get projects built.

​Speakers

• ​Edo Mahendra, Principal Advisor to the Minister of Forestry, Indonesia

• ​Malaysia – named speaker TBC

• ​Moderator: Alvin Lee, Head of APAC, Puro.earth

​What participants will take away

​Participants will hear:

• ​How Indonesia and Malaysia are positioning themselves as CDR suppliers, and what each wants to focus on domestically.

• ​How domestic demand for physical biochar in construction and land management can de-risk projects whose credits are sold abroad.

• ​How the biochar and the removal credit can go to different buyers, for different reasons, without double claiming.

• ​Who the target buyers are: corporate buyers, Article 6 counterparties and companies with FLAG targets in regional supply chains.

• ​What international buyers and standards need from host-country frameworks before they commit to long-term offtake.