South Pole Carbon Asset Management Ltd. is a leading developer of high quality carbon credits, founded and managed by highly experienced carbon market professionals. It was the first company worldwide that generated and brought to market issued CERs with the Gold Standard quality label. South Pole staff has advised successfully registered CDM and VER projects with a forecasted total of more than 100 million tCO2e till 2012.
Our services:
- Carbon Asset Development. We develop emission reduction projects together with technology partners;
- Sourcing. We identify and contract high-quality emission reductions for large buyers;
- Advisory Services. We provide distinctive advisory services on carbon markets.
Speaker Profile
Patrick Horka is a project manager at South Pole. Patrick holds a Master in Environmental Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. In his Master Thesis “A Biofuel Baseline and Monitoring Methodology under the Clean Development Mechanism: The State of the Art, a new Proposal with a LCA Approach and a Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Estimation” he addressed the main sustainability problems but also possibilities of Biofuel projects to generate Carbon Credits.
Currently he is involved in a 500,000 hectares Jatropha plantation project on degraded land in the Philippines bringing 25 million carbon credits to the market. Another 500,000 hectares in the Philippines are planned in the coming years.
JatrophaWorld 2009 Brussels Speaker
Day 1 – Wednesday, October 14
11:30 OPPORTUNITIES FOR CARBON CREDITS IN JATROPHA BIOFUEL PROJECTS
JATROPHAWORLD 2009 is a showcase of all the latest trends and shifts occurring in the Jatropha value chain, bringing together on a single platform, the best expertise to discuss and analyze the present and future dynamics of Jatropha from a technological and socio-economic angle. To find more about JatrophaWorld in Brussels from October 14 to 15, 2009, please visit http://www.futureenergyevents.com/jatropha/.