Initiatives

Complementary to our core advocacy work, IETA also runs initiatives to support carbon market development.

Introduction

These initiatives include industry-led dialogues to support countries and the private sector engage with carbon markets to achieve their NDCs and increase ambition via our Business Partnership for Market Implementation (B-PMI); modelling the impacts of Article 6 in conjunction with researchers from the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland; promoting best practice in the voluntary market via the ICROA programme; with the World Bank and the Government of Singapore, pioneering a decentralised metadata platform to bring more transparency to the carbon market; and working with industry and and experts to develop high-level criteria for a set of principles to govern the development of tradable reductions and removals using technology-based carbon sink enhancements.

B-PMI

In 2022, IETA launched  the Business Partnership for Market Implementation (B-PMI) to complement the World Bank’s Partnership for Market Implementation (PMI). Through the B-PMI, IETA aims to support the implementation of carbon pricing instruments in PMI countries through private sector capacity building and engagement with policymakers.  
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B-PMI

Article 6
modelling studies

IETA has partnered with researchers from the the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland to produce a number of studies about the potential of international carbon market approaches, identifying how Article 6 implementation could encourage businesses to accelerate climate action and nations to advance more ambitious commitments.
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Modelling the Economic Benefits of Article 6

CAD Trust

Together with the World Bank and Government of Singapore, IETA is one of the founding partners of CAD Trust, a decentralised metadata platform that links, aggregates and harmonises all major carbon credit registry data to enhance transparent accounting in line with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
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CAD Trust

ICROA

ICROA represents the interests of service providers in promoting emissions reductions and offsetting to the highest standards of environmental integrity and in support of the Paris Agreement.
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ICROA

High-Level Criteria for Carbon Geostorage Activities

IETA’s High-Level Criteria for Carbon Geostorage Activities are a set of principles to govern the development of tradable reductions and removals using technology-based carbon sink enhancements that can assume a major role in achieving the net zero goal of the Paris Agreement.
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High-Level Criteria for Carbon Geostorage Activities

IETA Brazil initiative

The IETA Brazil Initiative is a strategic group designed to elevate the role of the private sector in shaping Brazil’s emerging carbon market. Launched at a critical moment, following the approval of the Brazilian Emissions Trading System (SBCE) and ahead of COP30 in Belém, the initiative provides a structured channel for private sector engagement in Brazil’s climate and market policy evolution.

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IETA Brazil initiative