Join us for coffee and networking in the IETA BusinessHub Lounge
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The Ministerial event will provide a platform for Indonesia to communicate its regulatory direction, receive practical feedback from international market participants, and identify opportunities for partnerships, investment, and demand for high-integrity carbon credits. Panelists will present Indonesia’s progress in implementing Perpres 110/2025 and its associated regulations, discuss the operationalization of Article 6, and strengthen engagement with international carbon market stakeholders.
As sustainability becomes central to financing decisions, a key question is whether capital markets reward firms for sustainability performance. With regional, sectoral and new GCC evidence, this session examines when sustainability lowers financing costs, why effects differ across debt and equity, and how maturing sustainable-finance ecosystems may strengthen these links.
Marsh is working to bring greater confidence to climate finance and carbon markets by identifying sources of uncertainty, strengthening risk transfer, and protecting the value of carbon-related activity. This session will explore the evolving insurance needs of carbon market participants, highlight existing Marsh solutions, and showcase how innovation can support more resilient, investable carbon activity.
As development assistance stagnates, can high-integrity carbon credits and ETSs help finance sustainable development in the Global South? This session will assess opportunities, risks and governance needs, and whether carbon markets should complement rather than replace public finance.
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As momentum builds around carbon competitiveness, and the necessary role that harmonized accounting frameworks and market solutions must play, this session brings together industry leaders and market experts to discuss opportunities, near-term milestones, and priority engagement areas across the carbon accounting, reporting and disclosure landscape.
Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and CORSIA are advancing in parallel, but still fall short of the scale needed to meet global commitments. As CORSIA enters its mandatory compliance phase for the aviation sector, the panel will discuss the role Brazil can play in this market, the current status of operationalizing Brazil’s engagement under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, and how the private sector can help Brazil meet its climate commitments through strategic ITMO authorizations that take into account the windows of opportunity offered by different markets, such as CORSIA.
As Article 6 moves from rulemaking to real-world implementation, this session will explore whether international carbon markets are delivering on their promise to accelerate climate action and mobilise finance at scale. Government representatives and market leaders will assess what is working, where barriers remain, and what is needed to unlock the full potential of Article 6 to drive investment, strengthen ambition and deliver high-integrity emissions reductions.
Article 6 cooperation, carbon pricing, ETS and CBAM aim at mitigation but share challenges: trusted data, environmental integrity, interoperability of MRV systems and governance. Drawing on research for the German Environment Agency, this event examines how climate alliances shape these instruments, coordinate policy, align rules, build capacity and strengthen ambition.
Geothermal offers much of what the world needs today: locally sourced energy, low emissions, and power around the clock. So why does it still make up such a small share of the energy mix? Hosted by Columbia Business School’s Climate Knowledge Initiative, this panel brings together international experts to explore what it will take to overcome barriers and unlock geothermal’s potential, from technological advances to policy and financing.
CORSIA’s supply side has strengthened significantly since the last COP, with new authorization pathways and insurance solutions bringing over 40 million eligible credits to market. With one year until Phase I compliance submissions, aviation and carbon market stakeholders will review progress, address remaining barriers to market activity, and identify actions needed to ensure broad compliance by the January 2028 deadline.
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How can business and government work together to build competitive low-carbon industries, strengthen resilient value chains and accelerate the deployment of emerging technologies? This session will bring together leaders from key World Economic Forum communities, including the Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders, First Movers Coalition and Industry Net Zero Accelerator.
Scaling carbon removal requires more diverse demand models that accommodate buyers’ varying budgets, risk appetites and procurement needs. This panel explores product-linked and portfolio-based purchasing as complementary approaches to traditional procurement, broadening market participation and creating repeatable demand. The CDR2030 Better Together T-shirt illustrates both approaches in practice, linking product carbon footprints with nature-based and durable removals to broaden participation and create repeatable demand across the CDR marketplace.
What will it take to turn ambition on climate resilience into real-world investment? In a world increasingly driven by short-term pressures, building resilience requires sustained, long-term action. This session will examine where investors are allocating capital and where interest still fails to translate into investment. The practical discussion will explore the barriers and what the industry needs to do differently to help unlock investable opportunities and accelerate a resilient transition.
This side event will explore how nuclear energy and renewables can work together to deliver resilient, secure and decarbonized electricity systems, while examining the role of carbon pricing and carbon markets in mobilizing investment and accelerating the deployment of clean energy technologies. The discussion will also examine how carbon markets, including mechanisms under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, can create stronger economic incentives for low-carbon electricity investments.
Despite the growing demand for resilience solutions and more resilient places, investment continues to lag behind. Drawing on emerging evidence of market demand and practical examples, this panel will explore how to turn resilience needs into investable opportunities, thriving adaptation markets, and more resilient economies?
Developed in partnership with Cercarbono as a framework to unlock financing for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration through high-integrity nature credits. The panel will explore how nature credits can mobilize private investment, recognize nature’s economic value, and deliver measurable environmental benefits while ensuring strong safeguards and equitable benefit-sharing for local communities.
Showcasing Peru's climate ambitions and the role of innovative partnerships among government, development finance institutions, private enterprise, and local communities. Highlighting Internet para Todos as an example of digital inclusion and exploring how connectivity can support climate resilience, environmental stewardship, and sustainable development across the Amazon.
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Rapid growth in AI and data centres is driving demand for reliable, continuous electricity. This session brings together energy, technology and climate perspectives to explore the role of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in decarbonising the electricity powering AI and data centres.
Unlocking finance is key to scaling carbon capture and storage (CCS). This session explores the financial and commercial mechanisms accelerating investment, from carbon pricing and tax incentives to public-private partnerships and shared infrastructure, and how these can create the conditions for CCS projects to thrive.
Join Vantage Climate for the Africa Climate Implementation Summit at COP31 on 13 November in Antalya, bringing together African leaders, investors, financial institutions and climate innovators to unlock investment opportunities and accelerate climate action. Discover bankable solutions, explore strategic partnerships and connect African climate projects with the capital needed to turn commitments into implementation.
A presentation and panel conversation hosted by Amazon on the IETA Stage. Panelists will discuss how carbon insets and lower-carbon fuels can help companies decarbonize their value chains, sharing Amazon's published insetting approach and early learnings on scaling adoption.
Discover promising African climate projects and innovative solutions. Meet project developers, connect directly with investors and commercial partners, explore financing opportunities and build strategic relationships to help move climate solutions from potential to investment and implementation. Limited capacity.
Lagos Climate Investment Day will convene government leaders, financial institutions, investors and project developers at COP31 to explore Lagos State’s estimated US$25–50 billion climate-investment opportunity across 300+ potential projects. The session will spotlight the State’s climate investment framework, financing opportunities and partnerships to translate climate commitments into investable projects and implementation.
This panel discussion will explore how the carbon markets are beginning to converge on common, high integrity methodologies and what impact that evolution will have on the confidence of supply and demand forces. Methodologies for newer CCS technologies will also be discussed, and how receptive carbon markets will be to new sources of supply from emerging technologies.
With the European Union set to become a compliance buyer, this event will examine progress and challenges in scaling up ITMO supply and host Party cooperation under the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism, with a focus on the evolving needs of sovereign and private buyers, host countries, project developers and investors.
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Panelists will discuss the intersection of clean energy policy and private sector action, examining how companies and US policymakers are collaborating to advance sustainability and affordability goals.
As the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM) moves from design to im-plementation, its long-term credibility and impact will depend on whether it can mobilise mitigation at a scale and speed commensurate with the climate change challenge. This side event will discuss concrete pathways for streamlining Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM) implementation.
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The Government of Madagascar and its partners are launching the Ala Velona Jurisdictional REDD+ Programme under the ART TREES standard, an initiative designed to bridge climate and biodiversity finance to provide a sustainable financing pathway for Madagascar's conservation and development priorities. This ambitious program will cover approximately 4 million hectares across 13 regions, representing more than 55% of Madagascar’s forest area.
Latin America and the Caribbean encompass diverse carbon market experiences, from building enabling frameworks and identifying mitigation opportunities to expanding domestic markets and Article 6 transactions. This high-level panel will explore pathways to credible implementation, investment and international market participation, highlighting policy approaches, lessons, challenges and opportunities for cooperation to connect regional mitigation potential with growing international demand.
Asia accounts for about 60% of global GHG emissions, and more jurisdictions in the region are adopting carbon pricing as an instrument to reduce emissions cost-effectively. This event brings together experts in Asia to share the latest developments, as well as the prospects for carbon markets in the region.
This session will explore opportunities and challenges for scaling high-integrity carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in Africa, drawing on experience from the German-funded “Unlocking the Potential of Carbon Sinks in Africa (REMOVE)” project. Government and private sector representatives will discuss how policy frameworks, robust methodologies and MRV, safeguards, benefit sharing and access to finance can enable credible CDR activities and investment. The session will also examine how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, including the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM), can support market development and create demand signals for carbon removals in Africa.
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This panel will explore the contribution of private international law to the cross-border legal architecture underpinning high-integrity carbon markets. It will examine how greater legal certainty can facilitate international cooperation and coordination, support the effective implementation and operation of carbon market activities, and address the legal complexities arising from increasingly interconnected markets.
A closed-door CEO roundtable exploring how the India–Japan Joint Crediting Mechanism can move from policy ambition to investable projects, bringing together corporates, investors and market stakeholders to discuss pathways for credible Article 6.2 collaboration, project origination, financing and scalable cross-border decarbonisation.
This conversation will focus on blue carbon, market mechanisms and private capital for high-integrity, ocean-based climate solutions.
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This panel seeks to address current Article 6 implementation challenges, opportunities for accelerating implementation and where negotiators are seeing potential conflicts arise. Panelists will cover Technical Expert Reviews, nature-based solutions in Article 6, ITMO carryover rules, the relation between Article 6 and CORSIA – as well as linkages with domestic compliance markets and voluntary carbon market standards.
In this panel event, speakers will summarize the Harvard study, present complementary perspectives, and discuss implications for reducing methane emissions.
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