Course Description
Carbon has become a traded commodity and a cost line on the balance sheet. The EU ETS sets the price that CBAM imports, Kazakhstan operates its own emissions trading system, and voluntary markets continue to fund mitigation — while Article 6 of the Paris Agreement reshapes how international transfers work.
This course develops a working understanding of carbon markets and emissions trading. Participants learn carbon pricing instruments and how they differ, the mechanics of emissions trading systems, the EU ETS and its linkage to CBAM, national systems including Kazakhstan's, voluntary carbon markets and credit integrity, Article 6 mechanisms, and the trading, hedging and compliance strategies open to an emitting business.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Compare carbon pricing instruments: taxes, ETS, crediting
- Explain the mechanics of an emissions trading system
- Understand allocation, benchmarks and free allowances
- Explain the EU ETS and its linkage to CBAM
- Understand national systems including Kazakhstan's ETS
- Assess voluntary carbon markets and credit integrity
- Explain Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
- Develop compliance and hedging strategies for carbon exposure
How the course is delivered
The course combines carbon market structure with practical trading and compliance exercises using realistic emitter positions. Participants work through allocation, price exposure and hedging scenarios.
The programme connects carbon markets to the regulatory instruments that drive them, including the CBAM-ETS linkage that determines import costs.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Trading and commercial professionals in energy and industry
- Sustainability and carbon managers
- Finance and risk professionals
- Regulatory and policy staff
- Anyone managing carbon cost exposure
Daily programme
- Why carbon is priced
- Instruments: taxes, ETS and crediting
- Carbon markets landscape
- Price formation and drivers
- ETS mechanics: cap, allowances, surrender
- Allocation, benchmarks and free allocation
- The EU ETS
- EU ETS and the CBAM linkage
- National and regional systems
- Kazakhstan's emissions trading system
- Voluntary carbon markets
- Credit integrity, quality and greenwashing risk
- Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
- Internationally transferred mitigation outcomes
- Trading, hedging and portfolio strategy
- Compliance strategy workshop and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
