IETA LIVE Carbon Markets - Inside the UNIDROIT Principles on Verified Carbon Credits

19 August 2026 

Duration: 1 hr 00 mins 

Start time: 07:00 PST; 10:00 EST; 15:00 BST; 16:00 CEST; 23:00 Japan

A UNIDROIT Working Group has been developing Principles on the Legal Nature of Verified Carbon Credits, setting out how VCCs should be treated in private law across creation, transfer, registries, custody, security and insolvency. The draft Principles are currently open for consultation. This session walks through what's in them, how the Working Group developed them, and where the process goes from here.

Panel of Speakers:

• Belinda Ellington, Senior Adviser - IETA
• Lisa DeMarco, Senior Partner & CEO - Resilient LLP
• Andrew A. Bernstein, Senior Counsel - Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
• Megumi Hara, Professor of Law - Chuo University