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After a very long first day with hundreds of interested people at our booth we just started the second day at Carbon Forum Asia. My impression is that the most important thing for most of the attendees here is to get practitioneers and decision makers on one table and discuss about possible solutions for the fight against climate change. For REEEP it is a great opportunity to showcase how easy it is to find information about clean energy topics on the www and the feedback we get about the functionality is very positive. I took this opportunity to showcase our new design and asked visitors for feedback - it seems like our conceptional and design team did a great job

Back to the conference: One of the main parts of this conference and exhibition is the so called ’sellers pavillion’ where about 60 representatives from developing countries in Asia and the Pacific involved in clean energy and CDM projects promote their solutions. This pavillion is intensivly used by credit buyers o meet face to face with project developers and explore business oppotunities.

Today several very interesting workshops are taking place and I am looking forward to the final day of Carbon Forum Asia.

At the moment I am attending the Carbon Forum Asia 2008, which is a Trade Fair and Conference focusing on the opportunities presented by Carbon Markets and mechanisms in the Asia Pacific region. If you are attending this Forum, you can find the reegle booth at the exhibition hall 401 (A15).

What happened until now?

The conference has been opened by a speech of Mr. S. Iswaran, Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry in Singapore. He stated that “Climate change is one of the biggest global challenges we face this millenium” and that it is “in our profound collective interest that we work towards a solution to sustain the world we live in”. He also mentioned that because of the global economic slowdown “governments will have to deal with compelling domestic imperatives” and that “this may adversely affect the process and progress of climate change negotations”. Nevertheless CO2 emssions needs “an urgent and collective solutio, with all parties playing commensurate roles, even in this period of global slowdown”.

After this opening session the exhibition opened for all participants and 258 exhibitors from more than 60 countries started to introduce their products and solutions to more than 3000 visitors.

At the moment Henry Derwent (IETA) is chairing the session about the actual state of the global carbon market which provides an overview about the most recent developments and market data in the Global Carbon Market.

In the afternoon there will be several other interesting session taking place and I am looking forward to hear more about Carbon Trading in Asia.

Will keep you up-to-date …