Carbon Markets & Trading
Carbon credits attract two opposite errors: treating them as a licence to keep emitting, and dismissing the whole market as fiction. Both are wrong, and both are expensive. Some credits represent real, additional, permanent reductions. Many do not. This day gives you the tools to tell the difference, explains how the Malaysian market works through Bursa Carbon Exchange, and covers what you can and cannot say publicly once you have bought.
Programme Agenda
Compliance and Voluntary Markets
Emissions trading schemes and carbon taxes against the voluntary market. Where Malaysia currently sits and what a carbon pricing mechanism would change for a Malaysian emitter.
What a Carbon Credit Represents
Avoidance against removal, nature-based against technological, and the vintage question. Reading a credit's project documentation for what was actually done.
Quality: Additionality, Permanence, Leakage
The four tests that separate a credible credit from a worthless one, and why additionality is the hardest to demonstrate. Buffer pools, reversal risk, and double counting.
Standards and Registries
The main crediting standards, what registration and verification involve, and how to look up a project and its issuance history yourself rather than relying on a broker's summary.
Bursa Carbon Exchange
How the exchange works, the auction mechanism, the contracts listed, settlement and retirement. Participating as a buyer, and what listing a Malaysian project involves.
Article 6 and Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes
The Paris Agreement mechanism, corresponding adjustments, and why the host country's position affects whether a credit can be claimed against a national target.
Pricing and Procurement
What drives price differences between projects, forward purchase against spot, portfolio approaches, and the due diligence to do before signing an offtake agreement.
Claims and Greenwashing Risk
What you may say after retiring a credit. Carbon neutral, net zero and contribution claims, the reduce-first expectation, and the regulatory and reputational exposure attached to overstating.
Learning Outcomes:
Distinguish compliance and voluntary carbon markets and Malaysia's position
Read project documentation to understand what a credit represents
Assess a credit against additionality, permanence, leakage and double counting
Look up a project and its issuances on a registry independently
Participate in a Bursa Carbon Exchange auction as a buyer
Understand how Article 6 and corresponding adjustments affect a claim
Run due diligence before entering an offtake agreement
Make a defensible public claim after retiring credits
Duration: 1 Day (8 Hours)
Training Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Level: All levels
Training Mode: Physical, Online, or Hybrid
HRD Corp SBL-KHAS Claimable
Certificate of Completion included
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