27 participants from China, India, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam were selected.
Speakers included policymakers from ICAP members (representatives of the California Air Resources Board; the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety in Germany; Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Research Center in South Korea; the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government), international ETS experts (Asian Development Bank, Ecologic Institute, FutureCamp Climate, Get2C, Motu and Tsinghua University) and local speakers (Thailand Greenhouse Gas Organization and Thammasart University).
The ICAP Training Course 2017 in Bangkok was hosted by the Thailand Greenhouse Gas Organization and took place at Sasin University. The course was funded by the European Commission.
ICAP Courses on Emissions Trading
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.