SB COP Working Group 6.A Panel - Carbon Markets
From Market Potential to Investable Carbon Value: Kicking Off the SB COP Carbon Market Pathfinder
Hosts: SB COP, EY and GIZ
This 60-minute panel kicks off the SB COP Carbon Market Pathfinder. The Pathfinder is a practical initiative that applies existing carbon market rules and infrastructure to real country processes, corporate decisions and carbon-credit transactions. It brings together host-country governments, carbon-credit buyers, financial institutions, financial-reporting experts and market infrastructure providers.
Why this panel: Participants will leave with a clearer view of what host governments, buyers, banks and auditors each need for a high-integrity carbon transaction to move forward. The rules are largely in place, but turning mitigation potential into authorised supply, approved budgets and transactions that can be defended in financial reporting remains the main gap. The session will show where existing mechanisms already work and how to bring a real case to the Pathfinder after COP31.
The session opens with SB COP and GIZ on moving the Working Group from recommendations to implementation. The first discussion looks at what turns a mitigation opportunity into authorised, deliverable Article 6 supply. The second discusses what a CFO, a credit committee or an auditor needs to treat a carbon transaction as a decision they can defend. The panel closes with an open dialogue with the room.
Opening remarks
Ricardo Mussa, Chair, SB COP
Holger Treidel, Deputy Co-Chair, Working Group 6A, GIZ
Panellists
Beatriz Soares, Director, Department of Market Instruments and REDD+, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA), Brazil
Carla Woydt, Chief Impact Officer and Co-Founder, Ceezer
Jörg Eigendorf, Chief Sustainability Officer, Deutsche Bank
Saurabh Punamiya, Board Member, Climate Liabilities and Assets Initiative (CLAI)
Andrea Bonzanni, Senior Director, International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
Moderators
Ricardo Assumpção, SB COP Engagement Lead, EY
Gregor Sahler, Carbon Markets Lead, GIZ