Capacity Building & Courses
ICAP offers regular ETS training courses and workshops to build capacity in developing countries and emerging economies, providing comprehensive introductions to all aspects of ETS design and implementation.
ICAP builds capacity for emissions trading
Since 2009, ICAP has held courses on emissions trading for developing countries and emerging economies. The ICAP courses provide an intensive ten day to two week long introduction to all aspects of the design and implementation of emissions trading systems (ETS) as a tool to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
Topics include:
- Data collection and inventory generation
- Allocation methods
- Offset mechanisms
- Scope and coverage of a trading scheme
- Adequate monitoring, reporting and verification
- Registry design and implementation.
- Stakeholders engagement
- Competitiveness concerns
- Impacts on and responses from covered entities
- Market analysis and drivers
- Opportunities offered by creating a global carbon market of linked domestic and regional systems
For each course, between 25 and 30 highly qualified policymakers as well as stakeholders from the non-governmental, academic and private sectors are selected.
Teaching faculty consists of experienced decision makers from the relevant administrative authorities in ICAP member jurisdictions, as well as practitioners and representatives from established educational and research institutions active in the area of emissions trading and climate policy, market analysts and industry representatives.
For more information on the ETS training and capacity building programme as well as upcoming training courses, check out the project website here.
ICAP courses in a nutshell:
24 courses since 2009
19 in-person and 5 virtual courses
700 participants from 63 countries
274 speakers from 32 countries