NEW: On 15 April the lunchtime event "Australia-EU ETS" took place at CEPS, find here the presentation that Jenny Wilkinson (Acting Deputy Secretary, Department for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency) made during the event.

1st Task Force: New Market Mechanisms under the UNFCCC

2nd Task Force: CDM Policy Review

3rd Task Force: Review of EU ETS Issues
Recent meeting (7th): 23 April 2013, Focus on Supply Side Flexibility in the EU ETS

4th Task Force (NEW): EU Post-2020 Climate Change Policy Task Force
Recent meeting (2nd): 22 May 2013
 

Activities Report Carbon Market Forum 2012

Outline Activities Carbon Market Forum 2013

The CEPS Carbon Market Forum - launched on December 14, 2011 - is initially designed as a three-year programme, presenting an umbrella for its carbon market-related activities. It will provide for a neutral space, where policy-makers and regulators will be able to meet carbon market participants and other stakeholders to discuss carbon market regulation and general policy issues.

It is headed by Andrei Marcu, Senior Advisor at CEPS. The discussion will take place in a structured and solution-oriented way, in order to enrich the rigorous intellectual analysis, which is the contribution that CEPS brings to the debate. Thereby, the "CEPS Carbon Market Forum" will aim to provide the underpinning for "revitalising and expanding carbon markets" through dialogue and analysis on markets and market mechanisms, including:

• international climate change policy
• linking with other markets
• international offsets and their role now and in the future
• new mechanisms
• dialogue with non-EU countries, OECD countries, emerging economies, other developing countries, OPEC, etc.

The CEPS Carbon Market Forum is open to researchers, NGOs, experts and other stakeholders, filling a gap in the institutional 'climate landscape'. It will is place where all views will be welcomed, ecouraged, and listened to.

Head: Andrei Marcu, Senior Advisor at CEPS

Launch:

The CEPS Carbon Market Forum was launched in the occasion of its first event on "Climate change policy post-Durban", on 14 December 2011.
The keynote speaker at the inaugural meeting was Mr. Jos Delbeke, Director General, DG Climate Action, who gave a post-Durban perspective (please see presentation), together with a panel that included representatives from business, civil society and the UN Secretary General's Office. The inaugural meeting was attended by over 150 people and provided a lively discussion.

Output of the Task Forces:

Marcu, A. (2013) CEPS Carbon Market Forum Submission to the EC: Consultation on structural options to strengthen the EU Emissions Trading System, forthcoming publication 2013. 

Marcu, A. (2012) The Future of the Clean Development Mechanism. Note on the report “A Call to Action” of the High-Level Panel on CDM Policy Dialogue Submission to the European Commission, 5 October.

Marcu, A. (2012) Backloading: A necessary, but not sufficient first step. Submission to the European Commission, 5 October.

Marcu, A. (2012) A Framework for Various Approaches under the UNFCCC: Necessity or luxury? Submission to the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention AWG-LCA), 5 October.

Marcu, A. (2012) "Expanding Carbon Markets through New Market-based Mechanisms: A synthesis of discussions and submissions to the UNFCCC", CEPS Special Report, 2 May.

Marcu, A. (2011) "Post-Durban: Moving to a fragmented carbon market world?", CEPS Commentary, 22 December.

Contacts:

Andrei Marcu, CEPS Senior Advisor and Head of the CEPS Carbon Market Forum, andrei.marcu@ceps.eu
Kerstin Born-Sirkel, CEPS Director of Corporate and External Relations, kerstin.born@ceps.eu
Christian Egenhofer, CEPS Senior Fellow, Head of the Energy and Climate Change Programme, christian.egenhofer@ceps.eu