Carbon Markets 2.0 - From Voluntary Markets to Compliance-Driven Demand
The carbon credit landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation. As voluntary markets mature and governments integrate carbon credits into compliance frameworks, we're entering a new era of carbon market evolution, one where policy-driven demand, standardization, and strategic portfolio thinking will define success.
This event brings together leading voices from banking, insurance, policy, project development, and fund management to explore how organizations can navigate this shifting terrain and build resilient carbon strategies for the decade ahead.
What We'll Explore
Our discussion will examine the transition from purely voluntary carbon markets to hybrid compliance/voluntary systems, exploring how regional developments like the UK ETS, EU ETS, and potential market linkages are reshaping credit utilization and pricing dynamics. We'll dive into the strategic challenge facing corporates: how to balance high-quality, low-cost mitigation with future-focused carbon dioxide removal investments, building portfolios that deliver immediate impact while supporting emerging technologies.
The conversation will address the critical role of standardization in market evolution and how policy-driven demand is influencing quality expectations across the ecosystem. Using the UK's ETS integration timeline as a practical case study, we'll explore how policy certainty creates investment signals and what lessons this offers other jurisdictions.
Throughout, we'll focus on the fundamental question of future-proofing carbon strategies: supporting today's affordable mitigation while investing in tomorrow's necessary solutions, managing risk as markets converge, and building resilient approaches that work across both compliance and voluntary frameworks.
Whether you're directly involved in carbon markets, working in mainstream financial services exploring climate opportunities, managing impact investment strategies, or simply interested in how carbon finance is evolving, this event will provide practical insights into one of the most dynamic areas of climate action and sustainable finance.
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