Masterclasses on the Voluntary Carbon Market and its Climate Change Mitigation Potential

The Mediterranean Youth Task Force (MYTF) in collaboration with the Youth Skills Hub of the Education Track of the World Food Forum organized a series of masterclasses on the Voluntary Carbon Market and its Climate Change Mitigation Potential.

Overall, the masterclasses will enable participants to deepen their understanding and effective participation in the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM). Each session will cover different topics, including greenhouse gas emissions, carbon registries, standards and methodologies, carbon credits, nature-based climate solution projects, and the Paris Agreement. The overall course aims to engage young participants in all sessions and support them to develop their own ideas or projects on a pre-declared topic.

The target audience of the masterclass includes youth, either students, activists, practitioners and researchers, seeking to develop their knowledge of VCM. It is addressed to participants who seek to deepen their understanding of how to work on VCM functions and how carbon credits are generated, monitored, verified, issued and retired after their use in climate action strategies in relation to the nature-based climate solutions. The course aims to provide young people with key knowledge and practical tools on VCM through each Masterclass.

Each Masterclass has a duration of 60 minutes. Throughout all sessions, participants will be able to learn the following six key working skills:

• understanding of the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) and Compliance Market;
• Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Accounting and Verification;
• knowledge of Carbon credits quality and integrity;
• familiarity with Carbon registries, standards, and methodologies;
• application of VCM in nature-based Climate Solutions (NCS) and relation to the Paris Agreement; and
• basics of nature-based Carbon project design.
  

The instructors of each Masterclass will range from MYTF members to renowned professors, International Organization practitioners and professionals from the private sector.

In order to receive a certificate of course completion, participants must attend at least five out of the first seven sessions and mandatorily attend session eight. Participants are also free to attend any session of their choice without receiving a certificate of course completion.

***Disclaimer: Recordings of each masterclass will be made available for offline reference. However, it's important to note that certificates of attendance will only be issued to those who participate in the live sessions.***

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AGENDA

Starting from 16 January 2024 and ending on 9 April 2024, each Masterclass lasts 60 minutes and will be scheduled at 14.30 CET. Please see below the specific dates. For the detailed agenda, click here.

 

Session 1 - Introduction to the Voluntary Carbon Market 

• Date: 16/01/2024
• Speaker: Idris Olanrewaju, MYTF
• About: Idris Olanrewaju is a Data Analyst and Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist. He holds a Master's degree in Educational Management with a focus on Agricultural and Forest Data Analytics. Idris's career has been dedicated to empowering youth in Agricultural and Forestry sectors and his research centers on the intersection of forests, climate change, and youth leadership.
• Recording can be found here.
• Slides can be found here.

Session 2 - How are VCM greenhouse gas reductions accounted for at the project level?

• Date: 23/01/2024
• Speaker: R. Sanjay Mishr - Natural Climate Solution specialist, Callirius AG
• About: Sanjay is a Forestry and Climate Change expert, serving as a full-time Consultant at Callirius AG. With a Master's in Forest Science, he's certified in Nature-based Solutions and a GHGMI-accredited Greenhouse Gas Accountant. His expertise lies in Natural Climate Solutions project due diligence, project-level carbon accounting, and the interplay between Climate policy and the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM).
• Recordings can be found here.
• Slides can be found here.

Session 3 - Carbon credit and its quality and integrity

• Date: 30/01/2024
• Speaker: Lucio Brotto, Co-founder & Business Director, ETIFOR
• About: Lucio is the co-founder and Director of the Private Business Unit at Etifor, a BCorp spin-off of Padova University. He holds a PhD in sustainable forest investments and an MSc in Sustainable Tropical Forestry. Specializing in nature ecosystem services and corporate responsibility, Lucio leads a team of 70 at Etifor, assisting organizations in making nature-centric decisions with science-based solutions.
• Recording can be found here.

Session 4 - Carbon registries, standards and methodologies and how credits are generated

• Date: 13/02/2024
• Speaker: Lucio Brotto, Co-founder & Business Director, ETIFOR
• About: Lucio is the co-founder and Director of the Private Business Unit at Etifor, a BCorp spin-off of Padova University. He holds a PhD in sustainable forest investments and an MSc in Sustainable Tropical Forestry. Specializing in nature ecosystem services and corporate responsibility, Lucio leads a team of 70 at Etifor, assisting organizations in making nature-centric decisions with science-based solutions.
• Recording can be found here.

Session 5 - Use of Carbon credits

Session 6 - How does the VCM support nature-based climate solution projects? 

Session 7 - How does the VCM relate to the Paris Agreement and Article 6?

Session 8 - Present your ideas and projects on NCS project and VCM

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