Developers of carbon credit projects are looking for opportunities to sell their carbon credits, as carbon markets are facing their deepest and most serious crisis since their inception. Carbon markets suffer from low demand and from oversupply of permits and credits, resulting in low prices, poor liquidity and high uncertainty. There seems to shine some light at the end of the tunnel however. New emissions trading systems are established worldwide, that consider access to carbon credits from existing CDM projects in due course. Planned investments in emission reduction activity are likely to benefit from instruments called Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions or NAMAs. In the short run, voluntary carbon markets and dedicated carbon funds may offer a worthwhile alternative.  

Adriaan Korthuis, founder/director at Climate Focus, will provide insights during a practical webinar about the opportunities and limits to sell your carbon credits in the current market. Issues addressed in the webinar include:
- How to maximise value of your carbon credits in both the short-term and in the medium-long term. This will include opportunities in the voluntary and compliance markets and options such as dedicated carbon credit purchase funds;
- Status of international climate negotiations, from Doha to a new climate change agreement;
- Market development: Current and emerging carbon markets.  

Who should attend:
- Carbon credit buyers and sellers: Project developers, companies, wholesalers, brokers, exchanges, retailers etc;
- Policy officers in governmental organisations;
- Investment specialists at bilateral and multilateral financial organisations.  

On the speaker: Adriaan Korthuis, founder and director of Climate Focus, is a renowned expert in the carbon markets. He is the strategic advisor of many private and public entities in the carbon market and possesses a profound knowledge of climate change projects and carbon market dynamics. He is a strong promoter of private sector engagement in climate finance and has a keen eye on private sector development and the interaction between public sector policy making and private sector engagement. Adriaan is supervising the development of Programmes of Activities at Climate Focus and has vast experience with capacity building and executive training. Before founding Climate Focus, Adriaan set up and managed the ERUPT (JI) and CERUPT (CDM) programmes of the Dutch Government. He has extensive experience with project formulation.  

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