Introduction of Carbon Market - Sustainable Finance

As more countries are supporting the UN effort in achieving carbon neutrality by 2030 and net zero by 2050, it is important to understand its implication to the government, banks, PLCs and SMEs. Businesses need to be prepared to have a strategy to integrate with and to comply with national decarbonization blueprint. Ultimately, it affects product competitiveness, shareholders’ interests, operational costs and corporate taxation.

Programme Outline

Learning Objectives

By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:

Explain the current carbon market development nationally and globally
Explain the importance of carbon credit projects and the key stages involved in their development
Identify the purpose and application of carbon credits within a corporate decarbonisation strategy

Programme Outline

Session 1: Introduction of Voluntary and Compliance Carbon Markets, and Carbon Tax
Participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of carbon markets and the policy landscape driving carbon pricing mechanisms.
Climate change and the low-carbon economy
Carbon markets and carbon pricing mechanisms
Voluntary vs. compliance carbon markets
Carbon tax and emissions trading systems
Malaysia's National Carbon Market Policy and global developments
Session 2: Why your company must decarbonize and what requirements from stakeholders
Participants will understand why organisations are embarking on decarbonisation and the increasing expectations from regulators, investors and customers.
Drivers of corporate decarbonisation
Regulatory and reporting requirements
Investor, customer and supply chain expectations
Net Zero commitments
The role of carbon credits within a decarbonisation strategy
Session 3: How to achieve carbon neutrality and climate targets by leveraging emission reduction initiatives and offsetting
Participants will gain an understanding of how organisations can achieve climate targets by combining internal emission reduction initiatives with the strategic use of carbon credits.
Carbon neutrality and Net Zero concepts
Emission reduction hierarchy (Avoid, Reduce, Replace, Offset)
Internal reduction initiatives
Carbon offsetting principles
Selecting suitable carbon credit projects
Session 4: How to develop carbon credits using popular carbon project standards and aligning with National Carbon Market Policy
Participants will gain an overview of how carbon credit projects are developed and the key standards used for project certification.
Carbon credit project lifecycle
Popular carbon project standards (e.g., Verra, Gold Standard)
Project validation, verification and certification
National Carbon Market Policy
Opportunities and implementation considerations

METHODOLOGY

Lecturer, video, quizzes, case study discussion.
Throughout the modules, participants will be provided with references, publications, and relevant databases to dive deeper into specific discussed topics.

Participant profile

C-suites management, middle management and sustainability unit of public listed companies, small and medium enterprises, and financial institutions

Trainer

Hiro Chai Yihn Chan

Carbon Market Trainer

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Mr. Hiro Chai has over 15 years of career track records in global investment banking, sustainability reporting, and carbon market.

He started his first career as a project engineer in UK working on bridges and buildings in South West England. Later, he successfully transitioned his career into global financial markets in Dubai after having worked on world-class projects such as Burj Khalifa and Jebel Ali Palm Island in UAE. Subsequently, he returned to Malaysia for good with his first job being business development (BD) manager in Kenanga Investment Bank. He dealt with international financial institution (FI) clients and conducted new branch readiness assessment in accordance with Securities Commission. During his investment banking career, he also worked for CIMB Investment Bank as Associate Director of BD and Affin Hwang Investment Bank as Head of Derivatives.

Riding on his international exposure and multi-lingual capabilities, he was then hired by Bursa Malaysia to manage International Development of its Derivatives Division. Following that, he was appointed as Head of BD and Sales in Bursa Carbon Exchange (BCX). He was responsible for the successful launch of its inaugural carbon credit auction and go-live of their trading platform facilitating the first trade of their standardised contracts. During his time in BCX, he onboarded several FIs in Malaysia such as Maybank, CIMB Bank, AmBank and Permodalan Nasional Berhad as the first group of participants of the national voluntary carbon credit market exchange.

There were several highlights in his academic achievements. He was awarded First Class Honour in his Bachelor degree of Civil Engineering with University of Swansea and was presented Golden Jubilee Award by the Institute of Structural Engineer in UK. During his banking careers in Malaysia, he was awarded Japanese Government scholarship under the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to study Masters in Business & Administration (MBA) in GLOBIS University in Tokyo. Recently, he also successfully graduated in the first cohort of senior executive talent program of Penjana Kapital which is a venture capital subsidiary of Ministry of Finance.

He was now the Director of a local company operating a Decarbonisation Clinic and specialising in Japan Green Transformation (GX) agenda. The clinic provides decarbonisation consultancy service and product solutions to corporate clients. Their services also include corporate training on carbon market, sustainability reporting for public listed companies, corporate carbon offsetting, waste management, consulting for carbon credit project development, and support service for validation on GHG inventory and product life cycle.

His latest career was with Bursa Malaysia Index & Sustainability Business unit within Data & Digital Services division. He specialised in promoting Sustainability Data Disclosure by Digital and AI technological means for more than 1000 public listed companies. The sustainability disclosure services provided by the national stock exchange aligns with the national framework NSRF established by the securities regulator SC. It is also in alignment with the International standard on sustainability-related and climate-related disclosure (IFRS S1 & S2)