The Challenges Facing Carbon Project Developers

Tricorona Southeast Asia managing Director Moe Moe Oo, discusses the carbon credit market and its role as a project developer, its biggest project to date, its business in Asia and Malaysia, and his thoughts, in terms of registrability under the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism, the problems inherent in the carbon credit industry, most notably in the delays in registering clean energy projects, other challenges such as revelations of recycled CERs entering the EU market, more suspensions of CER project validators and confirmation of a sharp fall in CO2 emissions in 2009.

He also discusses its own targets for emissions offset portfolio, the main reasons for this decrease and adds his thoughts on how the carbon credit market has developed to expectations.

He also talks about climate talks in Copenhagen and Cancun, uncertainty for Clean Development once the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 as well as providing a outlook for CER prices.