Time: 11:15 – 11:45 am local time

Location: COP 31 blue zone

Verra staff speaking: Stefan Jirka, director, agriculture & supply chain innovation

Description: As companies face growing pressure to address Scope 3 emissions, many struggle to translate climate commitments into measurable reductions and removals across complex value chains. While investment opportunities are expanding, the market needs credible ways to quantify, verify, and report the impacts of value chain climate action. This fireside chat will explore how innovative approaches can accelerate value chain climate action and advance global climate goals, with a focus on Verra’s newly launched Scope 3 Standard Program (S3S). Building on the accounting foundations of Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program, S3S applies proven project-based approaches within value chains, using standardized methodologies, independent validation and verification, and transparent digital infrastructure to certify greenhouse gas outcomes. The discussion will examine S3S within the broader corporate net-zero ecosystem, including how certified projects can support emerging Scope 3 accounting and reporting approaches while complementing direct decarbonization efforts and frameworks such as the SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard. Drawing on lessons from the voluntary carbon market, pilots, and stakeholder engagement, panelists will explore how companies, producers, project developers, and other value chain actors can collaborate to unlock investment in verified emissions reductions and removals. Attendees will gain practical insight into the standards, verification systems, and market infrastructure needed to turn climate commitments into credible outcomes.

This is a small invite-only event. To express your interest to participate please register here.

Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm local time

Location: COP 31 blue zone

Verra staff speaking: Win Sim Tan, regional representative, Asia and the Pacific | Liz Guinessey, senior manager, food and blue carbon innovation

Description: This session will explore how Article 6.2 and CORSIA are being operationalized and what this means in practice for governments, project proponents, and market participants. It will provide an overview of Verra’s Article 6 and CORSIA labeling framework, including the requirements for Article 6 authorization and CORSIA eligibility, and how these are reflected in the Verra Registry.   The discussion will address the role of Letters of Authorization (LOAs), host-country reporting through Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs), and the UNFCCC Article 6 infrastructure, as well as the insurance pathway available under Verra’s CORSIA framework. Drawing on practical implementation experience, the session will examine how governments, project proponents, and other market participants can navigate authorization, corresponding adjustment requirements, and different uses of mitigation outcomes under Article 6.2 and CORSIA.

This is a small invite-only event.

Time: 16:45 – 18:15 pm local time

Location: Side Event Room 1 – GORDIYON – blue zone

Verra staff speaking: Mandy Rambharos, CEO

Description: Carbon markets under the Paris Agreement are moving from rule-making to implementation. This two-part panel brings together host country representatives, project developers, technical experts and sovereign buyers. Together, they will discuss challenges and lessons from implementing Article 6 authorization frameworks before changing gear to explore key building blocks for scaling high-quality carbon credit supply through jurisdictional REDD+.

Panel 1 – From Rule-making to Implementation: Article 6.2 Challenges and Lessons

Panel 2 – Building the Foundations: Capacity, MRV and Financing for Jurisdictional REDD+ Implementation

Time: 9:30 – 10:00 am local time

Location: COP 31 – blue zone

Verra staff speaking: Nurul Iman Suansa, lead program officer, jurisdictional REDD+ development

Description: This fireside chat will explore how jurisdictional approaches can help governments mobilize carbon finance and scale forest climate action across entire jurisdictions. Using practical government experience, the discussion will examine how jurisdictional carbon market frameworks can support credible accounting, environmental integrity, government participation, and the integration of projects and other activities within broader jurisdictional strategies. The session will consider Verra’s Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ (JNR) Framework as one approach for supporting jurisdictional forest carbon programs and enabling projects and jurisdictional programs to operate within an integrated accounting framework. It will also explore how jurisdictional approaches can connect with broader carbon-market developments, including eligibility under frameworks such as CORSIA and the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles where applicable. The experience of Misiones could provide a practical example of how a subnational government can structure participation in carbon markets through a jurisdictional approach, while recognizing that the appropriate structure will depend on each jurisdiction’s institutional, regulatory, and forest context.

This is a small invite-only event.

Time: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm local time
Location: Antalya Culture and Arts Center, Elmalı, Şht. Binbaşı Cengiz Toytunç Cd. No:60, 07100, 07040 Muratpaşa/Antalya

Register your interest to join Verra here.

Morning session

11:00–11:30 Coffee & Networking

11:30–12:30 Making Coal Phase-Out Investable: From Ambition to Transition Projects

Coal phase-out commitments will only deliver if they can be translated into financeable projects. This panel will explore how transition credits, renewable energy investment, and just-transition safeguards can work together in a corporate led construct to accelerate retirement of coal plants. Featuring perspectives from standards, finance, government, and a real-world project proponent, the discussion will focus on what is needed to take energy-transition commitments to implementation of coal retirement and scale.

Verra staff speaking: Ian Kuwahara, director, energy and industrial innovation

Afternoon sessions

13:30–14:30 Scope 3 Moves to Implementation: Turning Corporate Commitments into Credible Value Chain Action

Companies are under growing pressure to show real progress on their Scope 3 emissions, but turning value chain commitments into measurable reductions and removals is still hard. This session will look at what it takes to move from ambition to implementation, including how to drive corporate action, what makes a Scope 3 project high quality, and how projects are designed and delivered on the ground. Featuring perspectives from corporate climate leadership, carbon ratings and project development, the discussion will focus on practical lessons and the role of emerging frameworks such as Verra’s new Scope 3 Standard Program.

Verra staff speaking: Stefan Jirka, director, agriculture & supply chain innovation

14:30–15:00 Coffee & Networking

15:00–16:00 One Credit, Many Markets: Meeting Voluntary, CORSIA and Article 6 Demand

Carbon credits can serve voluntary buyers, airlines meeting CORSIA obligations, and countries pursuing their NDC targets. This session will walk through the requirements a credit must meet for each market, from issuance to final use. It will unpack host country authorization and corresponding adjustments, including why they aren’t a prerequisite for high-quality voluntary claims, and cover how labels such as SD VISta and CCP can be stacked. Project developers, government representatives, and buyers will discuss the opportunities and trade-offs of operating across markets.

Verra staff speaking: Win Sim Tan, regional representative, Asia and the Pacific and Liz Guinessey, senior manager, food and blue carbon innovation

16:00–16:30 Coffee & Networking

16:30–17:30 Novel Approaches to Durability: Innovative Products for Carbon Markets

Insurance, funds and other new products are emerging as alternatives to traditional buffer pools for managing reversal risk. This session explores how these approaches work, what they mean for project developers and buyers, and early lessons from Verra’s durability pilot.

Verra staff speaking: Liz Guinessey, senior manager, food and blue carbon innovation

17:30–17:45 Closing Networking

Time: 2:00 – 3:30 pm local time

Location: Union of Municipalities of Türkiye (Türkiye Belediyeler Birliği – TBB) Pavilion – blue zone

Verra staff speaking: Cassio Souza, director, market and client relations

Hosted by: Union of Municipalities of Türkiye

Description: The panel will discuss how municipalities can plan, fund, and implement energy transition. It will share experiences and insights to support local energy policies. Topics will include assessing energy use and needs, implementing projects, building institutional capacity, interregional cooperation, and carbon certification

Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm local time

Location: IETA Pavilion – blue zone

Verra staff speaking: Sinclair Vincent, Senior Director, Program Development

Hosted by: IETA

Description: CORSIA’s supply has strengthened since the last COP, with authorization pathways and insurance solutions bringing over 40 million eligible credits to market. With Phase I compliance submissions one year away, aviation and carbon market stakeholders will assess progress, tackle remaining market barriers, and support broad compliance by January 2028.

Time: 3:30 – 6:00 pm local time

Location: Singapore Pavilion – blue zone

Verra staff speaking: Sinclair Vincent, senior director, program development

Hosted by: S&P Global Energy and Ministry of Trade of Singapore

Description: Many ITMOs host countries face a choice: build national registries and programme that issue credits or adopt the existing international standards their projects. This closed-door workshop brings host-country negotiators and registry officials together with Verra and Gold Standard to address common concerns about authorising and transferring ITMOs issued under international programmes, from corresponding adjustments and sovereignty to data visibility and double-counting safeguards. Indonesia will share its experience with SRUK, a national registry that tracks internationally issued credits. Participants will explore how an accounting-and-tracking registry can deliver Article 6.2 compliance, preserve national oversight, and avoid the cost, delay and market fragmentation of duplicate issuance.

This is a closed-door workshop (by invite) only – targeting only ITMOs sellers’ countries.

Time: 9:20–10:00 am local time

Location: Kazakhstan Pavilion – blue zone

Verra staff speaking: Cassio Souza, director, market and client relations

Hosted by: Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan, International Green Technologies and Investment Projects Center (IGTIPC), Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC)

Description: During the event, participants will explore available sources of financing, including financial institutions, development banks, green and sustainable finance instruments, ESG financing, and carbon market mechanisms, including the voluntary carbon market (VCM) and I-REC renewable energy certificates. Particular attention will be given to investor and financial institution requirements, the preparation of bankable projects, transaction structuring, and building a high-quality investment pipeline. The discussion will also address the development of regional demand for carbon units and I-REC certificates, as well as the role of exchange infrastructure in facilitating the circulation and trading of these instruments across Central Asia. The event will bring together representatives of standards and registries, development institutions, investors, and ecosystem developers.

Time: 4:30–5:20 pm local time

Location: Ocean Pavilion – blue zone

Verra staff speaking: Liz Guinessey, senior manager, food and blue carbon innovation

Hosted by: Conservation International

Description: The climate crisis demands a full suite of solutions: rapid fossil fuel phaseout, protection and restoration of nature, and responsible innovations to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Blue carbon ecosystems provide immediate, multi-benefit carbon sequestration and storage. Marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) pathways will be an increasingly important part of efforts to meet climate targets and reach gigaton-scale carbon removal, but these require robust research, monitoring, verification, governance, and safeguards before they can be deployed at scale.

Bringing together leaders from science, policy, and finance, this session will explore how blue carbon and high-integrity mCDR could work together as climate solutions and what is needed to maximize their value and integrity. Panelists will discuss pathways to responsibly scale both approaches, translating ocean-climate commitments into financed, actionable solutions that deliver durable, meaningful climate mitigation.

Time: 12:30–1:30 pm local time

Location: IETA Pavilion – blue zone

Verra staff speaking: Mandy Rambharos, CEO

Hosted by: German Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUKN)

Description: As the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM) moves from design to implementation, its long-term credibility and impact will depend on whether it can mobilize mitigation at a scale and speed commensurate with the climate change challenge. Early experience has shown that slow methodology approval, particularly for Programmes of Activities (PoAs), and resource-intensive validation and verification processes risk becoming structural bottlenecks, preventing a rapid roll-out of activities.

At the same time, tested approaches such as standardized baselines and the application of default parameters, together with new approaches such as digital Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) and AI-assisted methodology development, have a high potential to reduce transaction costs for PoAs. A targeted approach could improve consistency and unlock implementation at scale, without compromising environmental integrity. Least Developed Countries and stakeholders with limited technical, financial, or institutional capacity could benefit, in particular.

The voluntary carbon market (VCM) has served as a valuable testbed and laboratory for new methodological approaches, including digital MRV solutions. PACM has much to gain by drawing on these lessons and adapting successful VCM innovations to a compliance context while avoiding the pitfalls encountered along the way. Eventually, a low-cost and high trust rigorous approach in PACM is critical for the long-term relevance of the mechanism and international carbon markets more broadly.

This side event brings together practitioners, methodology developers, verification bodies, and policymakers to discuss concrete pathways for streamlining PACM implementation.

Time: 11:00–12:00 am local time

Location: Singapore Pavilion – blue zone

Verra staff speaking: Mandy Rambharos, CEO

Hosted by: GenZero

Description:With Article 6 rulebook finalisation at COP29 and the first bilateral agreements now live, this session takes stock of how projects are being structured, priced and accounted for, and asks whether the current architecture is adequate to catalyse the ambition uplift and benefits for cooperating Parties.

Time: 10:10–11:20 am local time

Location: WWF Panda Hub – blue zone

Verra staff speaking: Liz Guinessey, Senior Manager, VCS Program Development

Hosted by: WALD Innovation Facility

Description:The discussion will focus on the enabling conditions required to build a stronger pipeline of high-integrity nature investments, including appropriate financing instruments, credible evidence and safeguards, supportive policy and institutional frameworks, and effective partnerships. It will also consider how public and philanthropic capital can be deployed strategically to crowd in commercial and institutional investment without compromising environmental and social integrity.

Time: 9:00–10:30 am local time

Location: Indonesia Pavilion – blue zone

Verra staff speaking: Win Sim Tan, regional representative, Asia and the Pacific

Hosted by: Center for Environmental Instruments Standardization (PSILH), Ministry of Environment / Environmental Protection Agency (KLH/BPLH), Republic of Indonesia

Description: This panel will cover international buyer and verification body perspectives on harmonizing local instrument standards with global carbon market criteria (such as Articles 6.2 and 6.4 of the Paris Agreement). It will review how data interoperability and compliance with international certifications can enhance global investor confidence in the quality and qualification of Indonesian carbon credits.

Time: 3:30–5:00 am local time

Location: ASEAN Pavilion – blue zone

Verra staff speaking: Ian Kuwahara, director, energy and industrial innovation

Hosted by: Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)

Description: Plastic pollution and climate change are often addressed through separate policy frameworks, yet effective plastic pollution solutions can also generate substantial climate benefits. This session showcases ASEAN’s best practices and policy innovations that deliver co-benefits for both plastic pollution reduction and greenhouse gas mitigation, including circular economy approaches, improved waste management, plastic recycling, and innovative financing mechanisms. Drawing on ERIA’s regional initiatives and partnerships, the event will bring together policymakers, international organizations, industry representatives, and experts to highlight practical experiences from across ASEAN. By consolidating and elevating regional success stories on a global stage, the session aims to strengthen recognition of ASEAN’s leadership, promote knowledge exchange, and identify opportunities to scale up integrated solutions that advance both environmental protection and climate action.