Market Dynamics and Risks – 1st ETS E-learning Course Webinar

Event: Digital Event
Date: 25 November 2015
Location: Boston/Brussels
Speaker: Elizabeth Zelljadt

Marcus Ferdinand (Thomson Reuters)

With this webinar, the consortium in charge of the European Commission's e-learning on emissions trading officially launches its free online course. The topic of this session, moderated by Ecologic Institute's Elizabeth Zelljadt, is "carbon market dynamics and risks" and features guest speaker Marcus Ferdinand of Thomson Reuters.

launching the e-learning programme

Emissions Trading in China and Europe: Taking Stock, Thinking Ahead, Looking Beyond

13 December 2017
Shenzhen, China

Event:Summer School

Ecologic Institute organized the second ICAP Master Course on Emissions Trading in Lisbon (Portugal). The two week-long course brought together 30 experts from emerging economies and developing countries to learn about emissions trading systems (ETS) as a tool for climate protection, and to discuss the options of implementing or optimizing such systems in their home countries.

Second ICAP Advanced Course on Emissions Trading

28 August - 7 September 2017
Lisbon, Portugal

Event:Summer School

In May 2017, Ecologic Institute organised the 17th ICAP Training Course on Emissions Trading in Bangkok (Thailand). The course brought together experts from emerging economies and developing countries to learn about emissions trading as a tool for climate protection, and to discuss the options of implementing such systems in developing countries. The session continues a series of past ICAP events that Ecologic Institute organised across the world since 2009. Twenty-seven mid-career professionals from seven Asian countries as well as Benjamin Görlach and Pedro Barata led the course.

ICAP Training Course on Emissions Trading in Bangkok

24 April - 4 May 2017
Bangkok, Thailand

Event:Summer School

From 3 until 12 May 2016, the 15th ICAP Training Course on Emissions Trading brought together climate policy professionals from Latin America to learn about emissions trading as a tool for climate protection and to discuss the options of implementing such systems in Latin America. The São Paulo course was the fifteenth of its kind and continues a series of past ICAP events held around the world since 2009. 25 mid-career professionals from seven Latin American countries attended the course, which was facilitated by Benjamin Görlach and Pedro Barata led the course.

ICAP Training Course on Emissions Trading in São Paulo

3 - 12 May 2016
São Paulo, Brazil

Event:Summer School

From 4 to 15 July 2016, the 16th ICAP Summer School on Emissions Trading brought together experts from emerging economies and developing countries to learn about emissions trading as a tool for climate protection and to discuss the options and experiences of implementing such systems in developing countries. The Brussels course was the sixteenth of its kind since 2009. 28 mid-career professionals from eleven countries attended the course, which was facilitated by Benjamin Görlach and Matthias Duwe of the Ecologic Institute.

ICAP Summer School on Emissions Trading in Brussels

4 - 15 July 2016
Brussels, Belgium

Event:Digital Event

In the last of our four-part webinar series on emissions trading systems (ETS), moderated by Ecologic Institute's Fellow Elizabeth Zelljadt, guest speaker Franz Litz explains the unique legal challenges of establishing and implementing regulatory ETSs. He discusses examples of national and international law to illustrate legal considerations for future ETS development.

Keeping it Legal - 4th ETS E-learning Course Webinar

27 April 2016
Boston / New York, United States

Event:Digital Event

In the third installment of the webinar series accompanying Ecologic Institute's ETS e-learning program, moderated by Elizabeth Zelljadt, expert guest speaker Duan Maosheng (Tsinghua University) commented on China's pilot carbon markets and experiences in becoming ETS "market ready." He provided unique examples of capacity gaps that were overcome and others that remain a challenge, shedding light on China's plans for a nationwide ETS to begin in 2017.

Emissions Trading Systems and Developing Countries - 3rd ETS E-learning Course Webinar

23 March 2016
Beijing, Boston

Event:Digital Event

In this second webinar in the series accompanying our ETS e-learning program, moderated by Ecologic Institute's Elizabeth Zelljadt, expert guest speaker Damien Meadows of the EU Commission discusses how the EU ETS came to be, changes to its structure over time, and the evolution of emissions trading systems in the future.

Past, Present and Future of ETS – 2nd ETS E-learning Course Webinar

16 February 2016
Boston/Brussels

Publication:Web Application

This online platform is part of an ongoing ETS Summer University program that helps to meet the growing need for improved understanding of emissions trading as an instrument of climate policy in emerging economies and developing countries. The curriculum and corresponding activities are organized into course modules, which allows for differentiation and flexibility in the learning process. Participants from all over the world learn the material online for free with the aid of supplementary webinars that feature interactive, question-and-answer sessions with subject matter experts. Ecologic is responsible for large parts of the course content and coordination among the subject matter experts.

ETS E-Learning Online Course

Year 2015

Funding: European Commission, Directorate-General Development and Cooperation (EuropeAid), International

European Commission, Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG Climate), International
Organizer: Ecologic Institute, Germany

DEVELOPMENT Solutions (DS), China
Speaker: Elizabeth Zelljadt

Marcus Ferdinand (Thomson Reuters)
Team: Elizabeth Zelljadt
Date: 25 November 2015
Location: Boston/Brussels
Language: English
Participants: 150
Project: ETS Summer Universities for Emerging Economies and Developing Countries
Project ID: 2110
Keywords: Climate

Education

Events

emissions trading, ETS, carbon markets

E-learning, Webinar

Further Links

ProjectGlobal Carbon Market Institutions: An Assessment of Governance Challenges and Functions in the Carbon Market

Global Carbon Market Institutions: An Assessment of Governance Challenges and Functions in the Carbon Market

In late 2008, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown commissioned his Special Representative on Carbon Trading, Mark Lazarowicz MP, to draft a report identifying the current role of emissions trading systems and possible challenges going forward. Michael Mehling of... Read more

Global Carbon Market Institutions: An Assessment of Governance Challenges and Functions in the Carbon Market

Duration: Mar - Jun 2009
Funding: Climate Strategies, United Kingdom

PublicationReportScaling up Carbon Markets in Developing Countries Post-2012

A new report on the interaction between carbon markets and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in developing countries brings together the outcomes of a one-year research project entitled "Scaling up carbon markets in developing countries post 2012:... Read more

Upadhyaya, Prabhat 2012: Scaling up carbon markets in developing countries post-2012: Are NAMAs the way forward? Ecologic Institute, Berlin.

PublicationArticleLinking Carbon Markets: Concepts, Case Studies and Pathways

This article explores options for linking emissions trading systems. Combining markets could have many positive benefits (including reducing the costs of compliance), but there are drawbacks. In the short term, however, direct bilateral linkages will be difficult, and... Read more

Tuerk, Andreas; Micheal Mehling; Christian Flachsland and Wolfgang Sterk 2009: “Linking Carbon Markets: Concepts, Case Studies and Pathways”. Climate Policy, Vol. 9, No. 4, 341-357.