Banyan Leadership

Mr. Nityanand J. Agrawal
CEO- Banyan Environmental Innovations Private Limited

Background
Nityanand J. Agrawal is the founding Director of Banyan Environmental Innovations Private Limited & is CEO. Banyan Environmental Innovations Private Limited is engaged in developing CDM projects for Land Fill Gas, Biomass, Fertilizer, Aluminum, Dairy & Energy Efficiency sectors. Banyan is developing many projects with multi million carbon credits and has made very significant progress in its CDM project understanding with several of the Municipalities & Emitters involved. He has successfully commercialized many concepts to production in Air Conditioning Compressors, Tractor engines & Trucks, during his 22 years work experience as an engineer, manager, innovator & technologist at Eicher, Kirloskar & Tecumseh. A post graduate in Solid Mechanics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India he served as the Associate Vice President of Tecumseh India a $80 million wholly owned subsidiary of Tecumseh Corporation, Michigan, USA, for four years, prior to setting up Banyan Environmental Innovations Private Limited. He is married with two children and lives in Hyderabad, India. He can be contacted at agrawalnj@gmail.com or +91 934 623 8867 (India).

Banyan Leadership

Mr. Gopal Amin
Chairman- Banyan Environmental Innovations Private Limited
&
Director - SLK Group
Background
Gopal Amin is a member of the Board of Directors of the SLK Group since 2000. The SLK Group is engaged in Consulting, Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing needs. He is the CEO of SLK ITES Pvt. Ltd., the Business Process Outsourcing firm in the group, providing back office services for the Mortgage Lenders in the US and the UK. His involvement in SLK ITES, the business processing arm of the group, has improved customer satisfaction across all the company’s client base and grown the company exponentially since Inception. A graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Inst, MA, he served as the Managing Director of Kirloskar Copeland, a $50 million Indo-US joint venture, for seven years, prior to setting up the SLK Group. He is setting up Banyan Environmental Innovations Private Limited for developing CDM projects for Land Fill Gas, Biomass, Aluminum, Dairy & Industry sectors. He continues to provide seed funding, develop strategy, facilitate strategic alliances for long term success. He is married with two children and lives in Pune, India. He can be contacted at gopalamin@earthlink.net or +91 982 209 0431 (India).

Banyan Vision

Road Ahead: Banyan vision is to become the best in the world at Environmental Innovations. Banyan intends to play an important role in this field both by developing projects & by providing high value services. Banyan is poised to scale up its networking, financing, Technological innovations & project development activities & needs to bring in more capital to this effort. In the years to come Banyan sees following advantages being offered by itself in the CDM space

1. Ability to identify right opportunities in CDM space & speedily carry out financial analysis, practical business planning.
2. Global perspective & diverse experience
3. Innovative Business Models
4. Project Preparedness: Highly networked & connected entity with links to New Economy or Information Technology, BPO- Business Process Outsourcing, as well as Rural, Industrial & Old Economy businesses.

Banyan Business

Banyan Business Segments: Identifying & quantifying CDM opportunities in priority segments, educating, reaching out & networking with large emitters, technology providers, financers & CDM services providers, creating practical Business Plans for CDM projects, has been the key focus for Banyan. Multi million CER Projects where mitigation costs are significantly lower than Carbon Income, with the exception of Biomass are the focus of Banyan. Revised IPCC ( Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change) guidelines 1996, project specific software & research has helped us make realistic estimates of the expected CERs from a segment & project.

To prove environmental & financial additionality, detailed financial analysis has been completed in Banyan Priority sectors of

1. Urban Infrastructure: Methane mitigation from Land Fills, Composting MSW-Municipal Solid Waste to avoid potential Methane Emissions etc. fall in to this category. 15-17 million CERs planned.
2. Green Power: All renewable sources of Energy like Biomass, Wind, Solar, Natural Gas based power sources & Energy Efficiency improvements. >5 million CERs planned from Biomass alone.
3. Agricultural Innovations: Methane & Nitrous Oxide from enteric fermentation, agriculture including Animal Waste Management Systems. 25-30 million CERs planned.
4. Project & Carbon Services: Providing GHG mitigation project & CDM services to clients & associates in India & Rest of the world. Carbon services for large projects to Corporate Houses & Large Government Sector GHG emitters are being offered by Banyan on Project by Project basis with Mitsubishi Securities ( now MUFJ Securities, Tokyo Japan ) for Fertilizer & Aluminum Sectors.

Banyan Profile

Indian Ranking: In the Carbon constrained world, Corporations & governments in the 55 countries, that signed Kyoto Protocol, are legally bound to reduce emissions of Green House Gases (GHGs). To fulfill Kyoto commitments a total of 5000 million Tonnes of CO2e need to be mitigated & may be traded on Carbon Exchanges by 2012. With availability of a large pool of English speaking professionals from Environmental Engineering, International Law, Finance, Entrepreneurial skills & growing economy, India is likely to lead in the GHG reduction. India has already received a highest rating from CDM project perspective by CRISIL at BBB ahead of all other CDM contenders like Brasil (BB+), Russia & China (BB). An estimated ~1500 million tonnes of CO2e reduction may come from India. Thus India represents a big source of Certified Emission Reduction-CERs & as well as a market for Carbon Services.