Webinars

On 21 July 2026, ICAP hosted an introductory webinar on emissions trading. The session introduced key carbon pricing concepts, explaining how emissions trading systems work, and presented the main steps involved in designing and implementing an ETS. The webinar was aimed at policymakers, technical experts and other stakeholders working on, or interested in, carbon pricing and emissions trading. This preparatory learning opportunity was also part of the lead-up to the 2026 Regional ETS Summer School in Bangkok.

ICAP Webinar: Foundations of Emissions Trading Systems | International Carbon Action Partnership

The 2026 edition of ICAP’s Emissions Trading Worldwide Status Report, to be published on April 14, highlights the continued expansion and evolution of ETSs worldwide. To accompany the launch, ICAP will host two public webinars, offering a platform for policymakers and experts to discuss recent progress and future directions for emissions trading worldwide. 

New ICAP Status Report 2026 on Emissions Trading Worldwide – launching April 15 and 16 | International Carbon Action Partnership

China’s ETS continues to shape the global carbon pricing landscape. To explore the latest progress, challenges, and opportunities, ICAP will host an online event bringing together experts from China, Europe, and the international ETS community. As a part of the event, ICAP will share highlights from the newly updated 2025 Emissions Trading Worldwide Status Report.

ICAP Webinar: “Latest Developments and Prospects of China’s ETS” | International Carbon Action Partnership

The 2025 edition of ICAP’s Emissions Trading Worldwide Status Report, to be published on April 8, highlights the continued expansion and evolution of ETSs worldwide. To accompany the launch, ICAP will host two public webinars, offering a platform for policymakers and experts to discuss recent progress and future directions for emissions trading worldwide.

New ICAP Status Report 2025 on Emissions Trading Worldwide – launching April 8 and 9 | International Carbon Action Partnership

All emissions trading systems to date deliver net-positive greenhouse gas emissions. However, recent debates have begun to ponder how ETSs should evolve as jurisdictional GHG emissions need to reach #NetZero or even become #NetNegative.

Our new report analyses several ETS design options and aims to contribute to jurisdictions’ contemplation of the role of emissions trading in their trajectory towards net-zero and net-negative emissions. This webinar will offer valuable insights and discussions on the future trajectory and design considerations of ETSs, featuring expert insights from government and industry representatives.

Launch Webinar: "ETS, Reloaded? Designing Emissions Trading for Net-Zero and Net-Negative Societies?” | International Carbon Action Partnership

The 2024 edition of the International Carbon Action Partnership’s (ICAP) Emissions Trading Worldwide Report showcases progress in the design, implementation and refinement of ETSs globally over the past year.

The annual report is a cornerstone publication for the carbon market community. This latest edition once again features up-to-date factsheets on the latest developments from ETSs in operation, scheduled, or under consideration globally. The report also includes infographics that visualize key characteristics of the different systems and an executive summary distilling key trends and outlook for emissions trading systems.  

New ICAP Status Report 2024 on Emissions Trading Worldwide – launching April 10 and 11 | International Carbon Action Partnership

This webinar presents an overview of the new generation of emission trading systems that is emerging and a snapshot of the recent ETS developments in Asia - focusing on India, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

Webinar: New Generation of Emissions Trading Systems in Asia | International Carbon Action Partnership

Emissions trading systems have grown in recent years as a tool to finance climate change mitigation and adaptation activities, and to promote sustainable development. What have we learned to date about the intersection of emissions trading and finance? How are carbon markets shaping climate-related investment? Panellists will address these questions in the upcoming instalment of the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) webinar series “ETS for Policy Practitioners.”

The Role of Emissions Trading in Financing the Green Transition | International Carbon Action Partnership

2022 has been a crucial year for emissions trading systems (ETS) around the world, as countries took steps to meet their net-zero commitments while grappling with the first truly global energy crisis. These challenges have not slowed down the momentum for ETS implementation. As of 2023, 28 ETSs are in force worldwide – 3 more than last year – with 20 more systems under development or consideration. Domestic carbon markets cover about 17% of global emissions and have generated more than USD 63 billion in auction revenues in one year. 

These are some key figures drawn from our new ICAP Status Report 2023 on Emissions Trading Worldwide, to be published on March 22.

The annual ICAP Status Report is a cornerstone publication for the carbon market community. The 2023 edition once again provides a comprehensive snapshot of the latest ETS developments from around the world from systems that are in operation, scheduled, or under consideration. The Status Report features up-to-date factsheets alongside infographics that visualize the characteristics of the different systems. In-depth articles from policymakers and carbon market experts also provide insights into the latest ETS trends across the globe.

New ICAP Status Report 2023 on Emissions Trading Worldwide – launching March 22 and 23 | International Carbon Action Partnership

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) can be a key tool in the response to climate change. CCS applications can support decarbonization by helping to reduce emissions from emissions-intensive industries and through the retrofitting of existing infrastructure. Moreover, some CCS applications can reduce atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and are a key component in compensating for residual emissions and achieving net zero by mid-century.

Most jurisdictions with Emissions Trading Systems (ETSs) in force either already have policies on CCS or intend to make use of CCS applications. Moreover, there is an important overlap between the sectors covered by ETSs and those in which CCS shows the most promise. At the same time, there has been limited attention to the interactions between ETSs and CCS. The International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) has carried out work to better understand these interactions.

The outcomes of this work are captured in an upcoming ICAP report (available here soon) entitled: “Emissions Trading and Carbon Capture and Storage: Mapping possible interactions, technical considerations, and existing provisions”.

Join us for this webinar, where the ICAP Secretariat, ETS practitioners, and policy experts will present and discuss the key findings of the report, including:

• How CCS is treated in different ETSs around the world;
• If and how ETSs could play a role in incentivizing the development and deployment of CCS applications;
• The challenges and opportunities in developing the required regulation in this context.

Launch Webinar: New ICAP report on Emissions Trading and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) | International Carbon Action Partnership

After a turbulent decade for the carbon market, interest in offset credits has recently surged as a compliance option for emitters in carbon pricing systems. In this webinar session, the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) will present its latest report “Offset Use Across Emissions Trading Systems”, followed by a discussion with an expert panel drawn from policy making, offset project origination, and an offset crediting standard. Questions to be discussed will include the role that offsets can play in carbon pricing instruments, the benefits and risks of their use, policy solutions to maintain the integrity of the emissions trading system, and implications of offset use for the market for emission allowances.

The Role of Offsets in Emissions Trading Systems: Best Practices and Lessons Learned | International Carbon Action Partnership

In light of proposals surrounding a Climate Club and the role carbon pricing could play, this event will explore transatlantic learnings on the continuum of centralized carbon pricing approaches. Carbon pricing experts from the International Carbon Action Partnership and the Canadian Climate Institute will discuss the merits and challenges of harmonizing multilevel carbon pricing in Europe/Canada. How is collective ambition realized via coordinated (sub)national efforts? What lessons can be learned from the Canadian Federal Backstop and the various carbon pricing frameworks within the EU in efforts to reach collective climate policy ambitions?

Panel Discussion: Canadian and German Perspectives on Federal Carbon Pricing Policy | International Carbon Action Partnership

Surging commodity and especially energy prices have heightened concerns about the economic impacts of increasing carbon prices in emissions trading systems. How might the current price dynamics affect climate policy and carbon markets in the medium and longer term? What can be done to manage impacts on consumers and covered sectors? In this webinar session, market analysts and policy experts will weigh in on one of the most pressing questions currently faced in emissions trading systems around the world.

Emissions Trading in a Context of High Energy Prices | International Carbon Action Partnership

At COP26 in Glasgow, parties to the Paris Agreement adopted operational rules and guidance on Article 6, paving the way for full implementation of international carbon markets under the Paris climate regime. For existing and emerging domestic ETS, Article 6 can play various roles - offering an accounting framework for cross-border linkages between ETS, providing a mechanism to credit emission reductions outside the ETS, and opening a pathway to international carbon finance in support of ETS establishment and implementation.

Beyond Glasgow: Article 6 and its Relevance for Domestic ETS | International Carbon Action Partnership

Emissions trading systems (ETS) emerge within a legal and regulatory context, with which they need to align in order to ensure legal certainty and avert legal conflicts or challenges. The legal basis of an ETS needs to be compatible with previously existing rules, principles and procedures in other areas of law. Market activities can be subject to financial market regulation, financial accounting and taxation rules. Understanding the legal conditions and implications of emissions trading is critical for the durability and smooth functioning of an ETS. This webinar session will introduce the central legal considerations and describe ways in which jurisdictions have addressed these in existing ETS.

Legal implementation of Emissions Trading | International Carbon Action Partnership

Carbon pricing, whether through emissions trading or carbon taxes, changes the relative prices of goods which results in some actors paying more for energy services than others. This can create problems, particularly in countries that already suffer from inequitable distribution of incomes, from poverty and a lack of access to energy. Understanding these problems is crucial for designing market-based policies that are socially acceptable. This webinar will explore the distributional effects of emissions trading schemes (ETS) on different societal groups, and how they can be mitigated through the use of auction revenues and ETS design.

Understanding and Mitigating Distributional Effects of Emissions Trading | International Carbon Action Partnership

In July, the European Commission presented the 'Fit for 55' package of legislative proposals to revise the entire climate and energy policy framework of the EU, including the legislation on the EU ETS, which it aims to strengthen and extend to new sectors. What does this expansion mean for the decarbonization of the European economy, and what lessons have been learned under the EU ETS in 15 years of continuous evolution and improvement? How can these lessons inform developments in other jurisdictions implementing or exploring an ETS as a pillar of their decarbonization strategies?

Making the EU ETS ‘Fit for 55’ | International Carbon Action Partnership

Emissions trading systems result in the creation of a market, with different traded units and a diverse array of market participants. Dynamics in this market can have unintended consequences, and some participants may even act in bad faith. To ensure its smooth functioning, the carbon market therefore calls for oversight, including rules about market access (who can participate in trading, and under what conditions), eligible units (including, where allowed, derivative financial products), transparency and information disclosure, and other aspects of trading activity.

Oversight of Carbon Markets | International Carbon Action Partnership

In 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization adopted the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) to limit the climate impact of international air travel and ensure carbon neutral growth from 2020. The EU has integrated aviation into its own ETS. But are these efforts enough to tackle the growth in emissions from aviation? How can market-based instruments contribute further?

The Role of Carbon Markets in Tackling Aviation Emissions | International Carbon Action Partnership

This webinar explored how carbon pricing can contribute to phasing out coal in some countries; how carbon pricing could affect plans for extending coal use in others; what declining coal use implies for the functioning of carbon market; and which flanking measures are needed to ensure a just transition away from coal.

Emission Trading, Coal Phase-Out and a Just Transition | International Carbon Action Partnership

Outside the world of economics, ETS – and carbon pricing generally – is frequently misunderstood and misrepresented. This can undermine political support for carbon pricing, as well as public acceptance. What are common mistakes to avoid, and what are effective ways to improve public communication on carbon pricing? This ICAP webinar dealt with these and many more questions around the topic of communicating carbon pricing.

Communicating Carbon Pricing | International Carbon Action Partnership

As public budgets strain in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic, and with jurisdictions facing daunting investment needs to achieve ambitious climate commitments, emissions trading can serve as an important source of revenue. This ICAP webinar provided insights of revenue use from emission trading systems.

Using Revenue from Emissions Trading | International Carbon Action Partnership

Agriculture, land use and forestry are challenging sectors to include in a carbon pricing regime – in terms of data availability, the number and size of emission sources and liable entities, capacities for effective enforcement, and others. At the same time, the sector accounts for the bulk of emissions in numerous countries. What are the options to bring agriculture, land use and forestry into a carbon pricing regime, and what can be learned from existing experiences?

Carbon Pricing for Land Use, Agriculture and Forestry | International Carbon Action Partnership

In theory, an ETS can be an efficient tool to reduce emissions – yet in practice, its performance depends on a number of preconditions. One main aspect is the setup and the regulation of the electricity market – is the power sector sufficiently market-oriented for the carbon price to deliver.

Electricity Market Regulation and ETS | International Carbon Action Partnership