This session will provide a deeper discussion on corporate climate risk governance and reporting, including directors’ duties, best practice net zero transition guidance, carbon accounting, corporate target setting, greenwashing legal and regulatory guidance and mandatory climate disclosure reporting.

Corporate climate risk governance and engaging with environmental and renewable energy markets

Panel discussion: Corporate climate risk governance and market engagement

Building blocks for developing effective corporate decarbonisation strategies

Case studies: harnessing opportunities in corporate climate strategy. Corporate entity discusses their transition/climate plan including the generation stages, projects and insights

This session will focus on ACCU origination and purchase and investment in the Nature Repair Market (NRM). It introduces key regulatory mechanics of the ACCU Scheme and NRM, including method development, integrity and audit processes.

It will explore the business case for investment in land-based ACCU projects, including nature positive, risk management frameworks and tools, and ways to stack ACCUs and NRM certificates for land-based projects.

It will also delve into nature-based carbon and accounting for co-benefits under the ACCU and NRM schemes and explore market perspectives on how to account for and verify co-benefit claims.

Fundamentals of Australia’s carbon and nature crediting frameworks

Panel discussion: navigating investment in nature-based solutions

Opportunities to realise and value co-benefits

This session will focus on renewable electricity trading to contribute towards corporate decarbonisation strategies. It will introduce key legislative and regulatory dimensions of Australia’s renewable energy certificate schemes including the Large-scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) and the Renewable Electricity Guarantee of Origin (REGO) and how these schemes may interact.

It will delve into market dynamics and outlook having regard to observed market trends and procurement options.

It will also cover how renewable energy certificates can be used to support corporate decarbonisation commitments and disclosures, the Guarantee of Origin framework and broader climate risk governance considerations.

Australia’s renewable energy certificate schemes in context

Renewable energy market dynamics and outlook

Leveraging the REGO to support corporate decarbonisation pathways

This session will focus on how to engage with the Safeguard Mechanism as a covered facility.

It will introduce the Safeguard Mechanism’s regulatory framework and complementary policy and regulatory frameworks. It will explain flexibility mechanisms, compliance and reporting. It will also provide practical insights on market dynamics and engagement as well as market outlook and the role of futures.

Understanding the reformed Safeguard Mechanism

Carbon trading and the ACCU Scheme

Insights from the first compliance year under the reformed Safeguard Mechanism

Panel discussion: Market outlook and the role of futures