IETA's Working Groups are at the heart of our member community. They bring together carbon market experts, businesses, and policymakers to share intelligence, shape policy, and drive practical solutions across compliance and voluntary markets. Whether focused on a specific region, sector, or cross-cutting theme, each group offers members a direct seat at the table — influencing the rules and frameworks that define how carbon markets operate globally. Membership gives you access to the working groups most relevant to your business, keeping you informed, connected, and ahead of the curve.
Focused on market developments across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, this working group covers the Australian Safeguard Mechanism, ACCU credit market, New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme and international Article 6 linkages. The group aims to provide a constructive market voice to key challenges and opportunities.
Focuses on market mechanisms in the aviation sector, including the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), and the EU’s coverage of aviation in its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The group advocates for the role of market-mechanisms for hard-to-abate sectors, to set and meet ambitious Paris-aligned targets.
Ensures members have robust and regular engagement with Canadian federal and provincial policymakers across legislative and regulatory spheres. The group provides concrete opportunities to influence policy and market design processes, showcasing domestic leadership in emissions trading on regional, continental, and international stages. The group collaborates closely with the US WG and actively contributes to the shaping of sub-national North American trading systems.
This new taskforce is IETA's focal point for closely tracking and engaging across global mandatory and voluntary carbon accounting and reporting developments. Recognizing the topic's fast-moving and shifting landscape, the group provides structured engagement, knowledge exchange, and advocacy among IETA members and key stakeholders.
Focuses on eCDR/CCS/CCUS market standards development, rulemakings, thought leadership and showcasing relevant commercial innovations. Recognizing the importance of proactive engagement across the complex, highly dynamic eCDR/CCUS market landscape, the group provides a central hub for information sharing and advocacy, while working closely with our NCS and other global-cross cutting WGs.
Monitors and engages with the full spectrum of carbon market developments in China, including the provincial pilot emissions trading systems, the national ETS, the China Certified Emission Reduction (CCER) scheme, and broader voluntary carbon market developments. The group creates platforms for constructive dialogue with key policymakers and influential state-owned enterprises, while providing industry perspectives and technical input to support the development of China’s compliance markets and pathways toward greater internationalisation.
Forum for market innovators to collaborate throughout the ongoing digital evolution of carbon markets. It provides a high-level perspective on efficiency and scalability of digital solutions and is host to dynamic multi-stakeholder discussions regarding digital MRV, automation, registry infrastructure, AI, data models, digital methodologies, tokenisation, and more.
Monitors and assesses key changes to the EU climate policy framework, with a focus on the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), the upcoming Emission Trading System for building and road transport (ETS2), the EU Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF), the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), and the UK Emissions Trading System. The group collects intel, provides analysis, and engages with EU policymakers to advocate for emissions trading as the core mechanism in achieving EU green goals.
Actively engages in shaping policies, including the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS), Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, and the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM). It ensures business perspectives are communicated to key Indian government ministries and contributes to policy development through Taskforce (TF) meetings and submissions. The TF collaborates on white papers, participates in major carbon market events, and facilitates industry dialogues.
Engages in international climate policy, focusing on the implementation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, as well as supra-national carbon pricing mechanisms. The group contributes to UNFCCC negotiations and to the governance and operationalization of Article 6.4 (PACM), while supporting governments and private sector stakeholders seeking to participate in international carbon markets. It advocates for transparent, robust, and long-term policy frameworks that help mobilize and scale private climate finance, provide greater investment certainty, and promote Paris Alignment.
Observes various activities and policies in Japan, including initiatives such as the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), the GX-League—a government-led sector-wide voluntary program for GHG emission reduction— and its associated compliance market, the GX-ETS. The group closely follows developments related to the Article 6 Implementation Partnership (A6IP) and other relevant endeavors.
Promotes market-based solutions across 33 countries in the region, providing members with news and updates on policy, regulation, data, trends, business opportunities, and market developments, while ensuring regular dialogue with national and subnational policymakers. The group represents members through position papers, studies, events, workshops, and supports both government and business with technical expertise and stakeholder connections.
Forum to stay abreast of legal issues as carbon markets expand, become more sophisticated, and evolve to include a broader scope of participants and interoperability between jurisdictions. The group focuses on Identifying legal barriers and opportunities for enhancing the effectiveness and integrity of carbon markets, developing recommendations, strategies, and tools to address such legal issues, providing analysis on applicable rules and laws related to carbon markets, and collaborating with relevant stakeholders to advance IETA’s mission through open dialogue on legal aspects of carbon markets.
Focal point for nature in carbon markets. It brings together elements of compliance and voluntary markets in one place to provide members with policy intelligence and a forum for discussion and advocacy around the importance of including nature in compliance markets, Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, and voluntary corporate action. Increasingly, this involves balancing the role of emissions avoidance-based projects and carbon removals within nature and reinforcing that both are necessary.
Focuses on three core areas: US Subnational Carbon Markets – California C&I, Washington C&I, RGGI and more; Relevant State Policy – climate disclosure, CCRUS, and VCM laws; and, US Federal Policy – GHGRP, 45Q/45Z tax credits, and more. The group regularly prepares and submits written comments during formal rulemakings and requests for information, and develops business briefs, white papers, and memos.
Fostering pragmatic and business-oriented carbon market solutions that support corporates’ decarbonization. The VCM WG advocates for high-integrity corporate use of verified carbon credits (IETA VCM Guidelines 2.0) helping corporates meet their targets and contribute to global net zero. It is a cross-cutting forum for exchanging VCM-related information, drive discussions and develop policy positions among IETA members.
In addition to our core working groups, IETA runs a number of special initiatives that offer further opportunities for members to engage on emerging priorities and high-potential markets. These targeted efforts allow members to go deeper on specific regions and themes, connecting with a focused community of peers and policymakers to drive meaningful progress where it matters most.