Brief event description: Side event held during the Carbon Expo on May 8, 2008, co-hosted by the GGFR Partnership and the World Bank Carbon Finance Unit, to discuss the status, current realities, and challenges that flaring reduction projects aiming to leverage carbon finance face. More than 40 people attended. 

Following are the presentations and key messages from the event.

1. Moderator, Andrew Mingst, GGFR Partner/Chevron
2. Challenges in developing/implementing oil & gas flaring reduction projects, Paul J. Parks
3. National Oil Company experience: Pertamina Bambang SP / Joko Susilo
4. Scaling Up Gas Flaring and Carbon Finance, Alexandrina Platonova-Oquab & Francisco Sucre, World Bank
5. Key messages from the presentations and discussion