Plenary Proceedings

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

Welcome Address
YK Modi, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)

Methane to Markets: State of the Partnership
Dina Kruger, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (PDF, 19 pp, 472 KB)

Key Statements from Ministries of Government of India

• M. Ramachandran, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development
• Deepak Gupta, Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
• Alok Perti, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Coal
• D.N. Narsimha Raju, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas

Future of International Financing for Methane Projects
Woochong Um, Deputy Director General, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Vote of Thanks
Rita Roy Choudhury, Joint Director & Team Leader, Environment & Climate Change Division, FICCI

Roundtable I: National Policy Frameworks to Support Methane Project Development
Moderator: Ulrich Benterbusch, International Energy Agency (IEA) (PDF, 10 pp, 364 KB)

• Gabriel Blanco, Universidad Nacional Del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Argentina) (PDF, 7 pp, 34 KB)
• Huang Shengchu, China Coal Information Institute (PDF, 15 pp, 144 KB)
• Edgar Del Villar, Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Mexico) (PDF, 15 pp, 849 KB)

Thursday, 4 March 2010

Roundtable II: Financing Mechanisms
Moderator: Dr. Prodipto Ghosh, Former Secretary of the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests

• Charles Cormier, World Bank (New Delhi) (PDF, 8 pp, 335 KB)
• Jiwan Acharya, Asian Development Bank (Manilla)
• Souraphi Jain, First Climate India Pvt. Ltd. (PDF, 15 pp, 651 KB)

Friday, 5 March 2010

Roundtable and Closing Plenary Session

Roundtable III: Gas End-Use Technology
Moderator: Prashant Modi, President and Chief Operating Officer, Great Eastern Energy Corporation Ltd.

• Prasanna S. Deshpande, Caterpillar Commerical Pvt. Ltd. (Bangalore) (PDF, 44 pp, 7.4 MB)
• Gerhard Pirker, GE Energy–Jenbacher Gas Engines (PDF, 20 pp, 3.7 MB)
• Tara Ramani, Center for Air Quality Studies – Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) (PDF, 12 pp, 276 KB)
• Amarjit Riat, Fairfax County, USA (PDF, 14 pp, 837 KB)

Closing Plenary Session

• Wrap-up Remarks
  • Jeremy Eppel, United Kingdom Deparment for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (PDF, 3 pp, 321 KB)
  • Raymond Pilcher, Raven Ridge Resources (PDF, 4 pp, 41 KB)
  • Rachel Goldstein, U.S. EPA Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) (PDF, 3 pp, 32 KB)
  • Luis Betancourt, PEMEX (PDF, 3 pp, 31 KB)
• Steering Committee Report and Decisions
  Dina Kruger, Director, U.S. EPA Climate Change Division, Acting Chair of Methane to Markets Steering Committee (PDF, 18 pp, 308 KB)