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Carbon Markets, Carbon Credits & Emissions Trading Training Course

Explains how carbon pricing instruments work, how carbon credits are generated and traded, and how organisations manage their exposure to carbon markets.

CC · Climate Change & Carbon ManagementAll Levels#2595ClassroomEnglish , Arabic
Duration
5 Days
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Sectors:Health, Safety, Environment & SustainabilityCategories:Climate Change & Carbon Management

Course Overview

This advanced practical course provides a comprehensive framework for understanding carbon markets, carbon credits, and emissions trading mechanisms. It examines how carbon pricing instruments are designed, how carbon credits are generated and traded, and how organisations can manage carbon market exposure as part of broader climate and sustainability strategies. The programme covers the structure and operation of compliance and voluntary carbon markets, emissions trading systems, carbon allowances, carbon credits, project-based mechanisms, carbon pricing, market participants, and trading arrangements. Participants will examine the differences between regulated and voluntary markets and the implications of each for organisations, investors, project developers, and other market participants. Particular emphasis is placed on the carbon credit lifecycle, including project development, baseline setting, additionality, quantification, monitoring, reporting, verification, registration, issuance, transfer, and retirement. The course also addresses the quality, integrity, risks, and credibility considerations associated with carbon credits. Participants will apply practical approaches to evaluating carbon market opportunities, assessing credit quality, analysing market risks, developing trading strategies, and integrating carbon pricing into business and investment decisions. The programme also explores evolving carbon market mechanisms and their implications for international business, supply chains, and corporate climate strategies.

Learning Objectives

  • Analyse the structure, principles, and drivers of global carbon markets.
  • Distinguish between compliance carbon markets and voluntary carbon markets.
  • Evaluate emissions trading systems and carbon pricing mechanisms.
  • Analyse the lifecycle of carbon credits from project development through retirement.
  • Assess baseline methodologies and additionality requirements for carbon projects.
  • Evaluate carbon credit quality, integrity, permanence, leakage, and associated risks.
  • Analyse monitoring, reporting, and verification requirements for carbon projects.
  • Assess carbon allowances, credits, registries, and market transactions.
  • Evaluate carbon pricing mechanisms and their implications for organisations and investors.
  • Develop approaches for assessing carbon market opportunities and exposure.
  • Analyse trading, procurement, portfolio, and risk management strategies for carbon instruments.
  • Integrate carbon market considerations into corporate climate, investment, and sustainability strategies.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for sustainability and climate professionals, carbon market specialists, environmental managers, energy professionals, risk managers, investment professionals, and finance teams involved in carbon pricing and emissions management. It is also suitable for corporate strategy professionals, ESG and sustainability reporting teams, project developers, carbon credit buyers and sellers, consultants, regulators, policymakers, and professionals involved in emissions trading, climate finance, or carbon project development. The programme is particularly relevant to organisations in energy, oil and gas, manufacturing, aviation, transportation, financial services, utilities, and other sectors exposed to carbon pricing, emissions regulation, or voluntary carbon market opportunities.

Learning Outcomes

  • Explain the structure and operating principles of carbon markets.
  • Differentiate between compliance and voluntary carbon markets and their applications.
  • Evaluate emissions trading systems, carbon allowances, and carbon pricing mechanisms.
  • Map the complete lifecycle of a carbon credit.
  • Assess project baselines, additionality, permanence, and leakage risks.
  • Evaluate the quality and integrity of carbon credits using structured criteria.
  • Analyse monitoring, reporting, verification, registration, issuance, and retirement processes.
  • Assess carbon market participants, trading mechanisms, and registry functions.
  • Evaluate carbon price exposure and the financial implications of carbon market developments.
  • Develop procurement, trading, and portfolio management approaches for carbon instruments.
  • Identify market, regulatory, reputational, and integrity risks associated with carbon credits.
  • Integrate carbon market strategies into organisational climate and investment planning.

Course Outline

Day 1

Carbon Markets, Carbon Pricing & Market Structures

  • Fundamentals of carbon markets
  • Climate policy and carbon pricing
  • Compliance carbon markets
  • Voluntary carbon markets
  • Emissions trading systems
  • Carbon allowances and carbon credits
  • Carbon taxes and market-based mechanisms
  • Market participants and their roles
  • Carbon market infrastructure and registries
  • Practical Application: Map the structure of a carbon market and identify key participants, instruments, and transaction flows
Day 2

Carbon Credits, Project Development & Credit Lifecycle

  • Carbon credit fundamentals
  • Types of carbon reduction and removal projects
  • Project identification and development
  • Baseline determination
  • Additionality assessment
  • Emission reduction and removal quantification
  • Permanence and leakage
  • Project monitoring requirements
  • Registration, issuance, transfer, and retirement
  • Practical Application: Evaluate a carbon project and map its credit lifecycle from development to retirement
Day 3

Carbon Credit Integrity, MRV & Quality Assessment

  • Monitoring, reporting, and verification
  • Carbon accounting principles
  • Verification and validation processes
  • Data quality and traceability
  • Credit quality and integrity
  • Additionality and baseline risks
  • Permanence and reversal risks
  • Leakage and double counting
  • Registry and certification considerations
  • Practical Application: Conduct a structured quality assessment of a carbon credit and identify integrity risks
Day 4

Emissions Trading, Carbon Pricing & Risk Management

  • Emissions trading mechanisms
  • Allowance allocation and market participation
  • Carbon trading and procurement strategies
  • Spot and forward market concepts
  • Carbon price formation
  • Market supply and demand drivers
  • Regulatory and policy risks
  • Financial and operational exposure
  • Portfolio and procurement risk management
  • Practical Application: Develop a carbon procurement and risk management strategy for an organisation exposed to carbon pricing
Day 5

Carbon Market Strategy, Climate Finance & Future Developments

  • Corporate carbon market strategies
  • Integrating carbon pricing into business decisions
  • Carbon credits and corporate climate commitments
  • Carbon markets and investment decisions
  • Supply chain and international trade implications
  • Emerging carbon market mechanisms
  • Market integrity and reputational risk
  • Governance and internal controls
  • Strategic opportunities and long-term market developments
  • Final Workshop: Develop an integrated Carbon Market Strategy covering market selection, credit assessment, procurement or trading, pricing exposure, risk management, governance, and alignment with organisational climate objectives

Upcoming Dates

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Paris · 30 Nov – 4 Dec 2026 · Classroom

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