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:

• Introduction to directors ‘duties
• Mandatory climate-related financial disclosure
• Greenwashing legal and regulatory guidance
• Evolving international frameworks and guidance on engaging with markets (e.g. Transition Plan Taskforce, ISO Net Zero Guidelines, SBTi

Corporate climate risk governance and market engagement

Building blocks for developing effective corporate decarbonisation strategies:

• Carbon accounting, the NGER Scheme and reporting using market-based scope 1 and market-based scope 2 reporting using renewable energy certificates (RECs)
• Corporate target setting for net zero including Paris-aligned targets, interim targets and scenario analysis

Harnessing opportunities in corporate climate strategy:

• Corporate entity discusses their transition/climate plan including the generation stages, projects and insights
• Actions consistent with organisational commitments including governance, resourcing and capex, reporting and engagement with government and industry

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:

• Governance and integrity in the ACCU Scheme
• How to engage in ACCU method development and the proponent led model
• How carbon abatement is regulated under the ACCU
• The Nature Repair Market and method development

Navigating investment in nature-based solutions:

• Financial risk management and opportunities to integrate ACCU and NRM investments
• Contractual considerations
• Integrity risk management and the ACI Code of Conduct

Opportunities to realise and value co-benefits:

• Indigenous carbon opportunities and benefit sharing
• Nature and biodiversity co-benefits
• Market perspectives on valuing 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:

• Introduction to the LRET and its role in Australia’s energy transformation, key dimensions of the Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin (REGO), including coverage and application and how these schemes will transition and interact
• Update on regulatory dimensions of the REGO including registration and certification

Renewable energy market dynamics and outlook:

• LGC Market update
• Market perspective on trends and procurement options

Leveraging the REGO to support corporate decarbonisation pathways:

• Best practice approaches to renewable energy claims and the REGO and IRECs
• Corporate case study on using renewable energy certificates in corporate decarbonisation strategy
• Market perspective on export market application

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:

• Key policy design elements of the Safeguard Mechanism and complementary policies that support covered entities (PRF, Future Made in Australia)
• Compliance dimensions of the Safeguard Mechanism including baseline setting, compliance obligations and options
• AFSL requirements in carbon trading

Carbon trading and the ACCU Scheme:

• Practical elements of where to start when engaging with Australia’s ACCU scheme
• Factors to consider, key issues, relationships, price discovery and negotiations, supporting tools and platforms available
• Market liquidity and brokerage services

Insights from the first compliance year under the reformed Safeguard Mechanism:

• Clean Energy Regulator data insights, including surrender behaviour and safeguard holdings
• Market insights, including price, liquidity, any early learnings or market movements leading into the second compliance period

Market outlook and the role of futures:

• Market outlook on supply and demand (What do the next 5 years look like)
• Market perspective on how Australia’s carbon markets are impacting business decisions
• The role of derivatives