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.

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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 

• Speaker: Idris Olanrewaju, MYTF
• Date: 16/01/2024

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

• Speaker: R. Sanjay Mishr - Natural Climate Solution specialist, Callirius AG
• Date: 23/01/2024

Session 3 - Carbon credit and its quality and integrity

• Speaker: Lucio Brotto, Co-founder & Business Director, ETIFOR
• Date: 30/01/2024

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

• Speaker: Lucio Brotto, Co-founder & Business Director, ETIFOR
• Date: 13/02/2024

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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