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.
- Stakeholder 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.
ICAP, thanks to generous support from the European Commission, is launching a new multi-year phase of EU-funded capacity building activities to support jurisdictions around the world in designing, implementing, and strengthening emissions trading systems (ETS). Find more information about this new capacity building program here.