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CARBON MANAGEMENT -VIEW

IN ASIA

BACKGROUND

Asia, comprising of pockets of highly developed countries such as South Korea,

Japan, developing giants such as China and India and a number of developing

countries such as Bangladesh and Sri Lanka offers a very different view on carbon

accounting, footprinting and mitigation efforts as compared to the developed EU

and USA.

Huge investments are happening in Asia in field green technology, evidenced by

rankings in wind energy (China is 4th and India is rank 5th). Similar push is also

underway in Solar energy installations, India has rolled out ambitious Jawaharlal

Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) with a target of 20GW installed power from

solar by 2022. These could very well be the steps brightening prospects of domestic

emissions trading and regional carbon trading thereafter.

KYOTO OR NO KYOTO

Given the uncertainty around the Kyoto Protocol and its successor mechanism if

any, Asian countries such as China, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Korea may

not wait for a follow up agreement and could proceed ahead with their own

national Capand Trade schemes to curb greenhouse gases.

Carbon is becoming a key driver in the competitiveness of businesses that want to

survive in the new carbon economy. European companies are already well aware of

this given the legislations and EU-ETS being in place. This has made sure that several

companies have already taken action. Given the way the Copenhagen negotiationsshaped up, in terms of attempts to create conditional targets, Japan and Korea

seems to be taking a wait-andsee approach. When the Japanese Cap and Trade

scheme will actually start is unclear as of yet. It could be in the fiscal year 2012 or

even later, one thing is for sure the Japanese companies need to start preparing

themselves. Evidence shows that who starts too late will lose very good

opportunities. South Korea is likely to launch a national Carbon Cap and Trade

system most likely in 2012. The big polluting companies that produced more than

125,000 tons of CO2 in the past 3 years will already have to start taking action from

April 2011.

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CARBON MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE

Carbon management is a framework for evaluating emission opportunity and risk. It

is a tool to assess risk, mitigate liability, and develop new revenue streams.

Accounting for emissions, identifying reduction opportunities, and then tracking

actual emission reductions will become common business practice for many

companies in the years to come.

Irrespective of how the legislations and global negotiations proceed, the top

companies in these geographies have already started integrating carbon

management into their every day operations, allowing them to identify and control

liability and in some cases realize income from emission reductions.

The reason for delay by many companies in acting on carbon management systems

is the gross underestimation of the timeline of Boardroom idea to actualimplementation. Companies that take early action can turn emission reductions

into a positive by increasing income through carbon credits. Businesses that wait

too long will suffer, as their emission reductions will show up only on the cost side

of the ledger.

The opportunities and risks exist across the sizes and geographies of companies, all

medium to large Asian corporations should start setting up a carbon management

system right now.

SOURCES

1. http://www.maycroft.com/cms/pages/posts/carbon-management-for-japanese-and-korean-companies-be-

prepared39.php?goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1.amf_115719_4262858.gde_1

15719_member_32476294

2. Agneyas analysis

http://www.maycroft.com/cms/pages/posts/carbon-management-for-japanese-and-korean-companies-be-prepared39.php?goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1.amf_115719_4262858.gde_115719_member_32476294http://www.maycroft.com/cms/pages/posts/carbon-management-for-japanese-and-korean-companies-be-prepared39.php?goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1.amf_115719_4262858.gde_115719_member_32476294http://www.maycroft.com/cms/pages/posts/carbon-management-for-japanese-and-korean-companies-be-prepared39.php?goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1.amf_115719_4262858.gde_115719_member_32476294http://www.maycroft.com/cms/pages/posts/carbon-management-for-japanese-and-korean-companies-be-prepared39.php?goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1.amf_115719_4262858.gde_115719_member_32476294http://www.maycroft.com/cms/pages/posts/carbon-management-for-japanese-and-korean-companies-be-prepared39.php?goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1.amf_115719_4262858.gde_115719_member_32476294http://www.maycroft.com/cms/pages/posts/carbon-management-for-japanese-and-korean-companies-be-prepared39.php?goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1.amf_115719_4262858.gde_115719_member_32476294http://www.maycroft.com/cms/pages/posts/carbon-management-for-japanese-and-korean-companies-be-prepared39.php?goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1.amf_115719_4262858.gde_115719_member_32476294http://www.maycroft.com/cms/pages/posts/carbon-management-for-japanese-and-korean-companies-be-prepared39.php?goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1.amf_115719_4262858.gde_115719_member_32476294http://www.maycroft.com/cms/pages/posts/carbon-management-for-japanese-and-korean-companies-be-prepared39.php?goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1.amf_115719_4262858.gde_115719_member_32476294

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ABOUT US

Agneya Carbon Ventures came into existence with the purpose of To help our

clients in understanding, establishing sound Environment Management Systems,

and pursuing sustainable business solutions through our various services to abate

direct and indirect impact on ecological balance.

We have worked with companies across sectors enabling them to create carbon

accounting, monitoring and reporting systems. We have expertise in the areas of

carbon accounting and management, energy management systems,

voluntary/compliance carbon markets, environment management and sustainability

and carbon branding.

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