Agenda – Carbon Forward Turkiye 2025

08.30     Registration and coffee

09.00     Welcome address

09.10     Keynote address: Climate policy of Turkiye

• How serious is the problem, what the UNFCCC process is doing about it, how long we have to act, and the huge investment required. 

09.40     Turkiye ETS legislation update

• Turkiye ETS – what is coming and when? Price expectations, ETS covered sectors, free allocation rules and expectations, leakage, total tonnage, abatement, fines for non-compliance, deadlines, tax treatment (VAT), property rights (to carbon credits), permitted market participants, currency, offsets, removals, exemptions, MRV, ambition.

10.40     Coffee break

11.10     EU ETS update – and learning points for operating within a Turkish ETS

• The economic and practical ramifications of an ETS on Turkiye. What differentiates a good cap and trade scheme? Who will participate, why and how?

12.30     The retreat of US climate leadership

13.00     Lunch

14.00     CBAM and global borders – the new world of tariffs

• Expected financial impact and what Turkiye’s ETS will help with.

EU CBAM update

Impacts of EU CBAM in the region

Turkish CBAM

CBAM going global

15.30     Afternoon break 

16.00     CORSIA: current and future carbon trading opportunities

• Also a consideration of the latest on US participation.

16:30     The impact of carbon pricing on the shipping sector

• Including an update on what happened at the IMO.

17:00     Close of Day 1