Carbon Markets

4-meeting course, featuring insights from global experts on market opportunities, key players, and current challenges in carbon markets - and how to ensure high-quality offsets as the market scales rapidly!

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Developing a Standard and Bringing Carbon Credits to Market

Standard-setting organizations and certifiers are core to the voluntary carbon market. In this first session we will hear from Verra about the process for establishing credible credit methodologies, the role of the registries in issuance of credits, and how Verra looks towards innovation to ensure carbon credit supply can match the growth in demand. Together with South Pole we will learn how credit projects are developed and financed and understand the commercialization process from innovation to project to project monitoring, third party verification and onwards toward revenue following issuance and retirement of a credit.

Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Overview and Opportunities

Heather McEwan, Senior Manager,
Project Developer Engagement, Verra

Carbon Projects 101 with South Pole

Rhyannon Galea, Senior Partnerships Manager, Climate Projects, South Pole

Leveraging dMRV technology to scale up Nature Based Climate Solutions

Ariella Charney, Co-Founder & COO, Albo Climate

The New Era of the Voluntary Carbon Market

As transaction volumes in the voluntary carbon market are growing - new players and models are emerging across the value chain. A key topic in this growing, yet unregulated market, is how to ensure that offset financing accelerates credible and trustworthy carbon removal and avoidance. We will hear about different pathways to ensure credibility and efficiency, about removing bottlenecks along the certification and issuance process and about how to enhance price discovery. Additionally, We will hear how standards and methodologies evolve, and consider pathways to establish methodologies for new and early stage removal pathways.

The 3 R's of Climate Change Risk Mitigation: Removal, Retention and Reduction

Aldyen Donnelly, Carbon Markets Advisor, Co-Founder of Nori

Building Confidence in Carbon Markets

Shachar Hatan, Ratings Program Manager, Sylvera

Scaling the Market – Where are we Heading? Transparency, Efficiency and Credibility

Owen Hewlett, Chief Technical Officer, Gold Standard
Hayley Moller, Chief Marketing Officer and Founding Team, Thallo
Dr. Anna Lehner, Standards & Methodologies, Carbonfuture

Rootella Mycorrhizal Carbon: Permanent Carbon Sequestration in Mainstream Agriculture

Dan Grotsky, Chief Growth Officer, Groundwork BioAg

Scaling High Integrity Carbon Removals

In this session we will hear how both the private and public sectors are driving the scaling of carbon markets; through corporate programs, mobilization of finance as well as policies that create regulated frameworks. We will hear perspectives on “what is high integrity”, on the tension between immediate removal vs. removal in the future in the context of the durability of any specific method, and insights on risk and governance for still nascent removal Methodologies.

A corporate perspective on scaling high-quality carbon removal purchases

Philip Goodman, Director, Carbon Removal Portfolio, Microsoft

Role of Finance, Policy and Governance in Scaling Carbon Removal

Sebastian Manhart, Senior Policy Advisor, Carbonfuture
Prof. Wil Burns, Co-Director, Institute for Carbon Removal Law & Policy, American University
Andrew Shebbeare, Managing Partner, Counteract

Navigating the Carbon Market landscape

Dr. Julio Friedmann, Chief Scientist and Chief Carbon Wrangler, Carbon Direct
Dr. Meera Atreya, Director of Carbon Direct Europe and Senior Scientist, Carbon Direct

Optimization - What do we need to get there?

Israel Talpaz, CEO and Co-Founder, SeeTree

Complementary to the Voluntary Carbon Market

In this last session of the course we will touch upon two topics that are complementary to the VCM. We will first deep dive with Dr. Ruth Dagan into the Article 6 rulebook of the Paris Agreement to understand the guidelines for international carbon trading involving governments, the planned centralized carbon credit issuing mechanism and the mobilization of private sector investment towards Article 6 mechanisms.

In the session led by Amos Zerah we will zoom-out from GHGs and climate and explore the environmental crisis through the lens of planetary boundaries, and then focus on the biodiversity crisis and its root causes. The interdependence of Nature and Climate will be explored and recent policy, tech, and financial market developments and the opportunities they create for entrepreneurs and investors (and us all) will be presented.

This week’s case study, presented by John Farner, will detail the journey Netafim has taken within the voluntary carbon market to attain certification for avoided emissions from rice fields, when implementing Netafim’s irrigation systems.

Complementary to the VCM - Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and the Future of Global Carbon Markets

Dr. Ruth Dagan, Partner, Head of Environment and Climate Change,Herzog Fox Neeman

Beyond Carbon: Biodiversity as the Next (interlinked) Frontier

Amos Zerah, Senior Associate, Third Derivative

Reducing Carbon Through Water: How Netafim is Transforming How We Think About Rice

John Farner, Global Chief Sustainability Officer, Netafim

Course #1

Carbon Markets

Discover the trends that are shaping the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM).

As the market enters a new phase of scaling, there are many challenges in ensuring high credibility, quality and volume of carbon reductions and removals.

We will delve into the opportunities and challenges of this rapidly growing market, learn about current and emerging players in the value chain and share insights to help you navigate your way within its complexities. You will access practical know how to support commercialization pathways and business models to monetize a technology innovation that reduces or removes emissions or provides MRV capacity.

Our goal is to empower you to navigate the VCM value chain, making informed decisions and maximizing financial returns while driving capital to credible carbon reduction efforts.

Join us on this exciting journey to understand the VCM

In this course you will:

Gain insights on VCM opportunities and challenges across its diverse landscape

Learn about commercialization pathways for monetizing a technology that reduces or removes emissions or provides MRV tools

Access and engage with leading experts. Assimilate valuable experience of practitioners

4 Meetings

90 Participants

20+

Global Experts

Speakers

Aldyen Donnelly

Carbon Markets Advisor, Co-Founder, Nori

Heather McEwan

Senior Manager, Project Developer Engagement, Verra

Philip Goodman

Director, Carbon Removal Portfolio, Microsoft

Adam Sipthorpe

Senior Manager, Carbon Portfolio Offering – CDRs, South Pole

Dr. Meera Atreya

Director of Carbon Direct Europe and Senior Scientist, Carbon Direct

Dr. Julio Friedmann

Chief Scientist and Chief Carbon Wrangler, Carbon Direct

Shachar Hatan

Manager, Ratings Program, Sylvera

Dr. Ruth Dagan

Partner, Head of Environment and Climate Change, Herzog Fox Neeman

Sebastian Manhart

Senior Policy Advisor, Carbonfuture

Dr. Anna Lehner

Standards & Methodologies, Carbonfuture

Hayley Moller

Chief Marketing Officer and Founding Team, Thallo

Prof. Wil Burns

Co-Director, Institute for Carbon Removal Law & Policy, American University

Amos Zerah

Sr. Associate, Third Derivative

Owen Hewlett

Chief Technical Officer, Gold Standard

Andrew Shebbeare

Managing Partner, Counteract

Jos Cozijnsen

Carbon Specialist, Carbon Neutral Group

John Farner

Global Chief Sustainability Officer, Netafim

Ariella Charny

Co-Founder & COO, Albo

Dan Grotsky

Chief Growth Officer, Groundwork BioAg

Israel Talpaz

CEO and Co-Founder, SeeTree

Agenda

Location - Tel Aviv

TImeline

Feb 8th

Application opens

March 7th

Acceptance Committee Decision

March 29th

Session 2

May 3rd

Session 4

March 1st

Application Deadline

March 22nd

Session 1

April 19th

Session 3

Who Can Participate?

We invite diverse stakeholders to participate in this course

The number of participants will be limited in order to maximize engagement between the speakers, the participants and each other.

In order to ensure that those who will gain the most value from the course are able to attend, we ask that you please explain your motivation for joining in the registration form.

We look forward to reviewing your responses and selecting the participants who will be the first cohort to benefit from this opportunity.

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*A nominal commitment fee of 200 NIS is required when confirming participation