CEPS Carbon Market Forum

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 will be 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 "revitilizing and expanding carbon markets" through dialogue and analysis on markets and market mechanisms, including on:

• international climate change policy,
• linking with other markets,
• international offsets and their role now and in the fture,
• 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 be a 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 for a lively discussion.

1st Task Force: New Market Mechanisms under the AWG-LCA
1st meeting: 23 February 2012, 15:00 - 17:45
2nd meeting: 22 March 2012, 9:30 - 16:45
3rd meeting (UNFCCC side event in Bonn): 16 May 2012
4th meeting: 5 July 2012 upcoming
5th meeting: 18 September 2012 upcoming

2nd Task Force: CDM Policy Dialogue
1st meeting: 23 March 2012, 10:00 - 13:15
2nd meeting: 4 July 2012 upcoming
3rd meeting: 17 September 2012 upcoming

3rd Task Force: Review of EU ETS Issues
Brainstorming sessions:
1st session: 17 April 2012 - Agenda
2nd session: 18 April 2012 - Agenda
Summary of the Brainstorming sessions
Meetings:
1st meeting: 29 May 2012 upcoming

Publications: 
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
Staffan Jerneck, CEPS Director Corporate relations, staffan.jerneck@ceps.eu
Christian Egenhofer, CEPS Senior Fellow, Head of the Energy and Climate Change Programme, christian.egenhofer@ceps.eu