Enabling and Ensuring a Paris Aligned and Net-Zero Compatible Carbon Market for Ukraine
- Day theme: Forests, Oceans, and Biodiversity, while spotlighting Indigenous peoples, Local and traditional communities, Children and Youth, and Small and medium entrepreneurs
- Article 6
- Finance
- Green recovery
- Green Transition
- Bankers for Net Zero (UK)
- Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture
- Oxford Net Zero
- UNDP
Ukraine is developing one of the world’s first carbon markets designed under conditions of ongoing war. This session will present the Ukraine Framework for Net Zero-Aligned Carbon Market Regulation, building on the Oxford “Roadmap to Net-Zero Aligned Carbon Market Regulation” (2025). It will explore how high-integrity carbon markets can become a cornerstone of Ukraine’s green recovery, EU integration, and energy transition.
Key topics: pathways to integrate Ukraine’s domestic ETS, voluntary markets, and Article 6 cooperation; how carbon markets in high-risk zones (such as war-affected or climate-vulnerable regions) can serve as a model for global resilience; opportunities for bilateral Article 6 agreements, EU ETS linkage, and Green Recovery financing mechanisms.
Moderator: Carbon Brief (TBC)
Speakers:
- Pavlo Kartashov, Ministry of Economy, Agriculture and Environment of Ukraine
- Thomas Hale, Professor of Global Public Policy, University of Oxford
- Kaya Axelsson, Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
- Injy Johson, Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
- Frank Joshua, CEO Climate Investment Partnership
- Heather Buchanan, Bankers for Net Zero (UK)
- Representative, Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative (VCMI)
- Representative, UNDP / Green Climate Fund TBC
- Representative, City of London Corporation / GFANZ Finance Sector