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AGENDA
- DAY 1
- DAY 2
- DAY 3
3:00 PM
Amaltas – B
Registration
04:00 PM – 05:15 PM
Amaltas – B
Opening Plenary
The opening plenary session will set the tone of the conference and showcase the proactive measures the Indian Government is taking, emphasizing how carbon markets are being leveraged to address the challenge of climate change.
Welcome Address: Mr. K C Panigrahy, Director General, Bureau of Energy Efficiency
Address: Mr. Tanmay Kumar*, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Address: Mr. Pankaj Agarwal*, Secretary, Ministry of Power
Address: Mr. Suman Bery*, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog
Keynote Address: Mr. Bhupender Yadav*, Hon’ble Union Minister of Environment Forest and Climate Change
Keynote Address: Mr. Manohar Lal*, Hon’ble Union Minister of Power and Housing & Urban Affairs
Vote of Thanks: Mr. Saurabh Diddi, Director, Bureau of Energy Eciency
Day 1: Friday, 20 March 2026
Day 2: Saturday, 21 March 2026
09:00 AM
Palash Hall
Registration
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Palash Hall
Plenary Session 1: Development of Global Carbon Markets – Paris
Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM)
This plenary session will provide a comprehensiven overview of how global carbon markets are evolving under the Paris Agreement, with a particular focus on the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM). It will examine the key mechanisms that enable PACM and other international carbon market instruments to function effectively, their role in driving emissions reductions, and their importance in achieving long-term global climate goals. The session will also explore policy frameworks, regulatory approaches, and governance structures shaping the development and implementation of PACM at both international and national levels. By comparing global experiences, participants will gain insights into best practices, emerging trends, and opportunities to strengthen carbon markets—especially those aligned with PACM—for sustainable, lowcarbon development
11:00 AM-11:20 AM
Palash Hall
Thematic Address: Advancing Global Carbon Markets through Strong Governance, Digital Innovation, and International Partnerships
Tea-Break
11:30 PM-01:00 PM
Palash Hall
Plenary Session 2: Balancing Exports and Emissions – Navigating Carbon Border Policies in Developing Countries
This plenary session aims to examine how developing countries can sustain and enhance export competitiveness while adapting to emerging carbon border policies, such as the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), that increasingly link market access to emissions performance and climate compliance. The session will explore the economic, technical, and institutional challenges these measures pose for developing economies, particularly carbon-intensive and small exporters. It seeks to identify practical strategies, policy options, and international support mechanisms that enable these countries to reduce carbon intensity, strengthen measurement, reporting, and verification capacities, and ensure that climate-related trade measures promote equitable, inclusive, and sustainable economic development rather than creating new barriers to growth.
01:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Fire-side Chat
Lunch
02:30 PM-03:30 PM
Palash Hall
Thematic Track 1: Building Effective Compliance Frameworks: Evidence from Country Implementation
This session aims to strengthen participants’ understanding of how effective compliance frameworks are developed and operationalized by drawing on evidence and experiences across different country contexts. Through real-world evidence and cross-country learning, the session will highlight the key elements that contribute to strong compliance systems, including regulatory coherence, institutional capacity, monitoring mechanisms and stakeholder engagement. By examining diverse implementation approaches, participants will gain insight into common challenges as well as innovative solutions that have proven successful in different geographies. The session ultimately seeks to provide actionable lessons and adaptable practices that can support countries in enhancing their own compliance frameworks and improving governance outcomes.
02:30 PM-03:30 PM
Palash Hall
Thematic Track 2: From Fragmentation to Integration – The Essential Role of Digital Infrastructure in Global Carbon Registries
The thematic track aims to examine how robust, interoperable digital infrastructure can transform today’s fragmented carbon registry landscape into a cohesive, trusted, and scalable global system. As carbon markets expand across jurisdictions and standards, the need for secure data exchange, harmonized protocols, and transparent tracking of carbon assets has become critical to market integrity and climate ambition. The session will explore emerging digital solutions-such as interoperable registries, open standards, and secure data architectures-that can enable seamless cross-border transactions, reduce double counting risks, and enhance confidence for governments, investors, and project developers alike. By bringing together policymakers, technology experts, and market actors, the discussion will chart a path toward integrated digital infrastructure capable of supporting high-integrity carbon markets worldwide.
03:30 PM-04:30 PM
Palash Hall
Thematic Track 3: Advancing Voluntary Mechanisms: Country Experiences and Key Learnings
The thematic track aims to explore the design, implementation, and impact of voluntary mechanism using real-world country experiences. It will showcase case studies highlighting how voluntary markets can accelerate climate ambition, strengthen integrity and transparency, and mobilize private-sector participation. The session will identify enabling conditions-policy frameworks, institutions, technical capacity, finance, and stakeholder engagement-and assess challenges such as governance, additionality, verification, equity, and alignment with NDCs and long-term strategies. By extracting cross-cutting lessons, it will clarify what works, what doesn’t, and how countries adapt to evolving standards. The discussion will highlight opportunities for scaling, replication, capacity-building, and actionable recommendations to support national climate goals and inclusive sustainable development.
03:30 PM-04:30 PM
Palash Hall
Thematic Track 4: Scaling Carbon Markets with Integrity through Digital MRV
This thematic track aims to demonstrate how Digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (Digital MRV) can serve as the foundation for scaling high-integrity carbon markets. The session aims to explore how digital technologies-such as remote sensing, loT, machine learning, and blockchain-enhance accuracy, reduce verification costs, increase transparency, and build trust among investors, regulators, and credit buyers. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how Digital MRV enables carbon markets to grow responsibly, ensuring that every issued credit is credible, consistent, and aligned with global climate goals.
Tea-Break
04:40 PM-05:00 PM
Palash Hall
Thematic Address: Mobilizing Climate Finance at Scale: Creating Policy Convergence between Public Goals and Private Investment
05:00 PM – 06:00 PM
Palash Hall
Plenary Session 3: Scaling Climate Action – The Strategic Role of
Carbon Markets in NDC Pathways
This plenary session explores how carbon markets can actively reinforce countries’ Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) implementation by providing structured and credible pathways for emissions reductions that complement and enhance national climate strategies. It will examine the role of voluntary carbon markets and their interaction with Article 6 mechanisms, with particular attention to corresponding adjustments, demonstrating how voluntary action can align with national priorities while strengthening market Integrity and investment confidence. The discussion will highlight the development of high-quality, high-integrity project pipelines designed to advance NDC objectives and to be eligible for future participation under Article 6.4. It will also address how transparent, structured market approaches can build investor trust and support ambition-raising efforts. It concludes with perspectives on fostering international cooperation, strengthening institutional capacity, and ensuring that carbon markets contribute to both long-term climate resilience and sustainable development.
Day 3: Sunday, 22 March 2026
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Palash Hall
Plenary Session 4: Unlocking carbon finance for implementation of clean
technologies
Achieving global climate goals requires more than ambition — it demands investment on a scale. Clean technologies such as energy storage, green hydrogen, and carbon capture offer the potential to decarbonize industries and economies, but financing gaps remain a critical barrier to implementation. This plenary session will explore how innovative financing mechanisms, carbon markets, and enabling policies can unlock the flow of capital toward clean technologies in the emerging economies. The focus areas of discussion will be on the pathways to mobilize and scale climate finance for clean technology deployment and explore the innovative financial instruments—including green bonds, blended finance, and carbon markets—that can de-risk investments.
11:00 AM-11:20 AM
Palash Hall
Thematic Address: Balancing Growth and Decarbonization:
Preparing India’s Industry and Trade for Carbon-Constrained Global Markets
Tea-Break
11:30 PM-12:30 PM
Palash Hall
Thematic Track 5: Strengthening Host Country Readiness for ParisAligned Carbon Pricing
This thematic track explores how host countries can strengthen their institutional, technical, and policy capacities for implementing Article 6 carbon markets. The discussion will also highlight the role of domestic and international carbon pricing instruments in mobilizing finance for development and climate priorities while safeguarding environmental integrity. The session will emphasize national readiness through targeted capacity building in governance frameworks, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and decision-making tools required to participate effectively in high-integrity carbon markets. It will also highlight practical challenges and lessons learned in aligning national climate strategies with Article 6, and explore opportunities for international cooperation, knowledge sharing, and scalable approaches to support broader adoption of Paris-aligned carbon markets.
11:30 PM-12:30 PM
Palash Hall
Thematic Track 6: From Innovation to Integrity: Evolving Carbon Market Methodologies
This session defines the overarching objectives and challenges of advancing carbon markets amid rapidly evolving climate solutions. It begins by outlining the need for clear, credible, and widely applicable methodologies that can keep pace with emerging technologies. The discussion surveys key areas of innovation-Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Carbon Capture and Utilization/Storage (CCUS) and bio-methanization using them as examples to illustrate broader methodological gaps and opportunities. Rather than diving into technical specifics, the conversation focuses on shared goals: improving measurement and verification, ensuring market integrity, enabling scalability, and aligning incentives for buyers and developers. The session aims to identify priority actions for strengthening trust and coherence across next-generation carbon markets.
12:30 PM-01:00 PM
Fire-side Chat
Lunch
02:00 PM-03:00 PM
Palash Hall
Thematic Track 7: Empowering Farmers in the Carbon Economy: Awareness, Participation, and Fair Benefits
India’s agriculture sector, which employs nearly half of the nation’s workforce, sits at the frontline of climate change-highly vulnerable to its impacts while also contributing significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. The emergence of carbon markets, alongside India’s Carbon Credit Trading Scheme, presents a transformative opportunity to incentivize farmers for adopting climate-smart and sustainable agricultural practices. However, smallholder participation remains constrained by limited awareness, complex certification procedures, high transaction costs, and unclear benefit-sharing mechanisms. This thematic track seeks to address these challenges through targeted farmer sensitization, hands-on capacity building, and the design of transparent, equitable participation models. By bridging knowledge and access gaps, it aims to ensure India’s transition toward low-carbon agricultural growth is inclusive, resilient, and economically rewarding for farmers.
02:00 PM-03:00 PM
Palash Hall
Thematic Track 8: Catalyzing Climate Innovation: Building the Next-Gen Climate Tech Ecosystem
A robust Climate Tech ecosystem rests on three interconnected pillars: climate-centric and commercially viable business models, accessible and sustainable sources of funding, and cutting-edge technological innovation. This thematic track will examine how these pillars can be strengthened and effectively integrated to accelerate the development, scaling, and widespread adoption of high-impact Climate Tech solutions. Discussions will explore pathways to reduce market and financing barriers, enable supportive policy and regulatory frameworks, and foster collaboration among startups, investors, industry, academia, and government. By identifying emerging opportunities, investment-ready innovations, and strategic partnerships, the track aims to advance solutions that deliver measurable climate outcomes while enhancing economic resilience, competitiveness, and long-term sustainable growth.
Tea-Break
03:10 PM-04:10 PM
Palash Hall
Plenary Session 5: Strategizing Corporate Climate Action – Leveraging High-Integrity Carbon Credits for Global Compliance
This plenary session is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive, practical, and strategic framework for integrating high-integrity carbon credits into corporate climate action. It will explore how organizations can prioritize deep decarbonization while carefully selecting and verifying credible carbon credits. The session will emphasize transparent reporting and claims, risk management, and contributing to the development of robust carbon markets. Through detailed operational steps, real-world examples, and actionable tools, participants will gain the knowledge needed to implement a net-zero strategy that is not only credible and impactful but also socially responsible, aligning environmental goals with corporate strategy.
04:10 PM-04:30 PM
Palash Hall
Valedictory Session
