Connect with Verra at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

Verra will have a strong presence at COP27, and the team looks forward to connecting with stakeholders in Egypt. The following staff will be in attendance:

David Antonioli, Chief Executive Officer
Robin Rix, Chief Legal, Policy, and Markets Officer
Andrew Howard, Senior Director, Climate Policy and Strategy
Candace Vinke, Senior Director, Nature-based Innovation
Benoît Clément, Director, Financial Innovation
Angelo Sartori, Director, Stakeholder Engagement
Heather McEwan, Senior Manager, Project Developer Engagement
Christina Irven, Senior Program Officer, Events
Hellen Nansikombi, Senior Program Officer

Our team members will speak at a number of events (see below). Verra staff also look to connect with stakeholders at COP27. If you are interested in meeting with us in Sharm El-Sheikh, please contact events@verra.org and indicate the reason for wanting to connect and your availability.

Verra Side Events

Note: Both Verra-hosted side events will be livestreamed

Thursday, 10 November, 1:30-3:00 pm EET
Location: IETA Business Hub and livestream
Moderators: Angelo Sartori, Director, Stakeholder Engagement, Candace Vinke, Senior Director, Nature-based Innovation
Panelists: To be confirmed

Voluntary and compliance carbon markets are advancing rapidly. Simultaneously, a growing number of companies are committing to abate their Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions in alignment with science. These developments create opportunities for governments to meet their mitigation commitments and for the private sector to channel finance to the implementation of projects with high social and environmental impact.

In this event, the various opportunities represented by the Voluntary Carbon Market, Article 6, CORSIA, domestic markets, as well as voluntary corporate emission abatement targets, will be discussed from the perspective of investors, auditors, GHG crediting programs, and project proponents.

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Wednesday, 16 November, 9:00-10:30 am EET
Location: IETA Business Hub and livestream
Moderator: Andrew Howard, Senior Director, Climate Policy and Strategy
Panelists: To be confirmed

The market chatter is ridden with uncertainties: Article 6 authorizations, corresponding adjustments, government approvals, NDC contributions, sovereign withholding of credits, regulatory additionality, sustainable development priorities, capacity building needs, and more. Countries are building up their responses to Article 6 and how they can work with the carbon market.

Verra is convening a discussion among representatives of host countries, initiatives working to support them, and members of the project development community.

We will explore what host countries are doing to create conditions that are supportive and attractive to the development of carbon crediting projects, how projects will need to work with them, and where developers can support project benefits on the ground.

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Verra Staff — Speaking Engagements

Please see below for a list of speaking engagements for Verra staff at COP27. This list will be continually updated.

Tuesday, 8 November, 8:00-8:45 am EET
Location: Resilience Hub (blue zone)
Host: Africa Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI)
Verra staff: David Antonioli, Chief Executive Officer

This event marks the launch of ACMI and the release of the ACMI roadmap for scaling Africa’s voluntary carbon markets. This event will also feature major announcements from African nations, top carbon credit buyers, and leading NGOs committed to growing the production of African carbon credits.

Wednesday, 9 November, 4:30-6:00 pm EET
Location:IETA Business Hub
Host: Indigo Ag
Verra staff: Angelo Sartori, Director, Stakeholder Engagement

Recent years have seen increased activity around agriculture in the voluntary carbon market, building on advances in policy, science, and modeling. This panel discussion will explore the state of play from several viewpoints and discuss how farmer- and science-led action can enable meaningful economic, social, and environmental progress globally.

Wednesday, 9 November, 5:00-6:00 pm EET
Location: Singapore Pavilion
Host: GenZero
Verra staff: David Antonioli, Chief Executive Officer

The growth of carbon credit markets has accelerated significantly over the past year, and is poised to grow ten-fold by 2030. The space is rapidly evolving, with broadening market diversity, new players, and increased blurring between compliance and voluntary markets.

Airing Thursday, 10 November, 1:30 pm EET
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Host: StriveEarth
Verra staff: Candace Vinke, Senior Director, Nature-based Innovation

The ICC Make Climate Action Everyone’s Business Forum – a hybrid event broadcasted from the COP27 Blue Zone – will present expertise from more than 70 organizations representing the global business community, forward-thinking governments and international partners. Climate leaders from every country are invited to interface with their predecessors, peers and voices of the future to align for twelve days of high-quality engagement.

Thursday, 10 November, 5:00-6:00 pm EET
Location: UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub Pavilion
Hosts: UNFCCC, Evercity, and the HBAR Foundation
Verra staff: Benoît Clément, Director, Financial Innovation

This event will focus on a system thinking approach to promote open data from climate projects in auditable, discoverable ways that allow a greater understanding of attribute level impacts.

Friday, 11 November, 11:00 am EET
Location: IETA Business Hub
Host: South Pole
Verra staff: David Antonioli, Chief Executive Officer

The market for durable and high-integrity carbon removals is growing. Yet, its foundation is a patchwork of monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) frameworks, accounting methodologies, and certification schemes. This event will look at efforts to develop more robust approaches, while identifying opportunities to tackle fragmentation and build investment security.

Friday, 11 November, 2:00-3:00 pm EET
Location: NDC Partnership Pavilion
Host: Peruvian Ministerio del Ambiente (MINAM)
Verra staff: Angelo Sartori, Director, Stakeholder Engagement

This Spanish-language event will show and share the progress of Latin American and Caribbean countries in the implementation of their National Registries on GHG Emission Reductions and their contributions to Article 6 and the Reinforced Transparency Framework of the Paris Agreement.

Friday, 11 November, 5:30-6:15 pm EET
Location: Climate Action Innovation Zone, Glasgow Breakthrough Room
Hosts: Okeanos and World Fuel Services (WFS)/World Kinect Energy Services (WKES)
Verra staff: Candace Vinke, Senior Director, Nature-based Innovation

This panel will explore topics including how to ensure that carbon offset projects deliver quality, project innovation and today’s buyers of offsets, avoiding greenwashing claims, how carbon offsets help to realize projects, and where carbon offsets fit into a company’s sustainability journey.

Saturday, 12 November, 2:00-2:45 pm EET
Location: Climate Action Stage, Innovation Zone
Host: Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Global Development
Verra staff: to be confirmed

Realizing the potential of forests to address the climate crisis requires not only a new way to do business, but also a new relation with nature which values both the ecological and social dimensions of working forests, in particular the role of traditional and Indigenous communities as forest guardians. Now, in the face of a global climate emergency with the need for urgent actions, FSC is convening experts and partners to work with us to position forests at the center of climate action. This event will launch the FSC Climate Coalition, a multi-sector platform to co-create, guide, and test forest-based climate solutions.

Monday, 14 November, 1:30-2:00 pm EET
Location: Park Regency
Host: World Biodiversity Summit
Verra staff: David Antonioli, Chief Executive Officer

Carbon markets play a crucial role in fighting climate change and can fast-track the transition to a net-zero economy. To better synergize the global climate and biodiversity goals, carbon markets should not only focus on mitigating climate change, but projects should also consider their effects on biological diversity. This Verra-moderated fireside chat will look at the business cases and policy frameworks needed to achieve nature-positive carbon markets.

Programs

Connect with Verra at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

Verra Side Events

Opportunities and Challenges in the Carbon Market and Beyond

Nurturing Markets: Creating Conditions to Support Projects and Investments

Verra Staff — Speaking Engagements

ACMI Launch Event

Launch of Sustaintech Xcelerator

New Credit Types

In Search of Quality in Nature-based Carbon Credits

Scaling Global Agricultural Soil Carbon Markets

Low Carbon Hydrogen: Unlocking the Potential through Carbon Markets

Panel on the Future Needs of the Voluntary Carbon Market

Make Climate Action Everyone’s Business Forum

Enhancing Multi-Stakeholder Engagement to Advance Development and Deployment of Emerging Technologies for Climate Action

Bringing the Balance Sheet of the Planet to the Public Ledger

Making Sustainability Finance Auditable

Scaling Durable Carbon Removals: What Role for MRV and GHG Accounting?

Digitizing & Open Sourcing Methodologies

El rol de los Registros Nacionales para la implementación del Artículo 6 y el Marco de Transparencia Reforzado del Acuerdo de París

Carbon Offsets: New Options and How They Fit Into Any Climate Strategy

Forests as Climate Solutions: Launching a Multi-Sectoral Partnership and Action Platform

Carbon Markets and Their Role for Biodiversity – Stepping Up Climate & Biodiversity Action by Trading CO2

Carbon Credit Valuation & Digitalization of the Carbon Markets

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New Auditing and Accreditation Team

Digitized AFOLU Non-Permanence Risk Tool

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