UNEP DTIE Energy Branch: Activities

The 1st Consultation Meeting Agenda
Assessment of Financial Risk Management Instruments for Renewable Energy Projects

20-21 February 2006
UNEP DTIE, Paris.

20. Feb 2006, Monday

9:00-9:20	Welcome Monique Barbut, UNEP
9:20-9:30	Overview of the project structure and meeting agenda Aki Maruyama, UNEP (PDF - 178 KB)
Session1: Background study and discussions Moderator: Judy Siegel, GVEP/Energy Security Group
9:30-10:00	Presentation of the Background study Which RE risks can be mitigated effectively by financial instruments and how? Availability of such instruments/ structures in DC and market appetite and capacity The challenges to applying risk mgmt instruments to RE in DCs Promising risk mgmt product development opportunities -Suggested focus areas for further work Hari Natarajan, IT Power India Ltd (PDF - 119 KB) Warren Diogo, Marsh Ltd (PDF - 299 KB)
10:00-10:30	Q&A ,comments on the background study and discussions
10:30-10:45	Coffee
Session2: Perspectives from financial institutions on the suggested focus areas (5+ minutes each- up to 4 slides) Moderator: Helmut Schreiber, WB RE financing activities and risk mitigation products offered by your bank Perceived missing gaps and some ideas/ issues for risk management instruments in RE projects in DC Comments on the suggested focus areas and future work to be covered by working group
10:45-11:10	Perspectives of DC-based commercial/ public banks Pradeep Chauhan, ICICI (PDF - 298 KB) Vadivelu Thirimavalavan, IREDA (PDF - 61 KB) Anat Prapasawad,TMB Bank (PDF - 51KB)
11:10-11:35	Perspectives of Multilateral Financial Institutions Samuel Tumiwa, ADB (PDF - 31KB) Lucía Alvarado Ney, CABEI (PDF - 256 KB) Kyoich Shimazaki, WB (PDF - 39 KB)
11:35-12:00	Discussions
12:00-12:20	Perspectives of Export Credit Agencies and other financial institutions Mrs. Anna-Marie Owie, EKF (PDF - 307 KB) Mr. Masayuki Tanimoto, JBIC (PDF - 311 KB)
12:20-12:50	Discussions and wrap up
13:00-13:55	Lunch
Session3: Where should we focus? Views of suggested WG task leaders and selected participants (10 minutes each, followed by Q&A and comments) Moderator: Eric Usher, UNEP
14:00-14:05	Brief introduction of suggested working groups Aki Maruyama (PDF - 130 KB)
14:10-14:30	How insurance could facilitate the financial structuring RE projects Dirk Kohler, GSDP
14:30-14:50	Issues related to risk mitigation for household RE /rural electrification projects Benoit Lebot, UNDP (PDF - 126 KB) Judy Siegel, GVEP (PDF - 81 KB)
14:50-15:10	Mitigating specific technology related risk: Case of Geothermal projects Helmut Schreiber, WB (PDF - 50 KB)
15:10-15:30	Mitigating risks of carbon projects- some implications for underlying project financing Ariane de Dominicis, CDC (PDF - 55 KB)
15:30-15:45	Coffee
15:45-17:50	Discussions on working groups Do suggested working groups adequately serve as a platform to cover promising risk management areas? Should we combine some WGs? Suggestions for other focus areas?
18:00	Meeting closure

21 Feb. 2006, Tuesday

Session 4: Working group research Moderator: Virginia Sonntag-O'Brien, BASE
9:00-9:15	General guidelines for the working group research Virginia Sonntag-O'Brien
9:15-9:30	Q&A, Composition of WGs
9:30-12:30	Parallel meetings of each WG to come up with research structures Exchange of own ideas about risk management instruments/structures in focus area – what is needed? Instruments/ structures to be examined (to mitigate which risks?) Research structure - Assumptions, Methodologies and Expected outcomes Contacts /information sought WG members
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:30	Meeting of WG (cont’d)
14:30-15:50	Brief report by each WG on research structures ( 15 minutes each) Q&A and information exchange for good contacts/ information sources WG Task leaders
15:50-16:00	Meeting closure UNEP