Welcome to the
NORTH AMERICA CLIMATE SUMMIT 2025
6th edition
Building momentum on carbon markets, part of our Annual Regional Climate Summit Series, IETA is delighted to be organizing its annual North America Climate Summit (NACS 2025) in New York City 23-25 September 2025 at Convene 360 Madison . NACS is an official affiliated UNGA and NYC Climate Week event.
As an in-person only event, IETA’s North America Climate Summit 2025, #NACS2025 is the premier gathering of carbon market, energy, and climate finance practitioners across North America. Bringing together over 800 delegate, the summit focuses on the importance of carbon pricing instruments for raising climate ambition and drive fair transition in the region considering the rapidly changing geopolitical landscape.
Attending NACS 2025 offers an unmatched space to discuss carbon pricing trends, deepen market expertise, and engage with policy makers and governments, business leaders, civil society and local communities, who are shaping today and tomorrow’s carbon markets in North America and beyond.
Be part of the conversation driving the next phase of carbon market evolution.
We look forward to welcoming you to NACS 2025 to navigate emerging opportunities, drive impactful and large-scale climate action, and contribute to the global journey toward net-zero!
DAY 1
TUESDAY
23 September
08:00
09:00
Registration & Welcome Coffee
08:30
10:00
IETA Members Meeting – US Working Group
09:00
10:00
Workshop 1 – Creating the Conditions for Success: How to Develop Legal Frameworks to Grow Carbon Markets
09:00
12:00
IETA Members Meeting – IETA Council
10:00
10:30
Coffee Break
10:00
12:00
By Invitation – Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) Catalyzing Carbon Project Development Roundtable Organised by EDB, for more information please contact Rovik Jeremiah,
10:30
11:30
Workshop 2 – Trade Tensions: Carbon, Competitiveness, and Border Adjustments
10:30
12:00
IETA Members Meeting – VCM Working Group
11:45
12:45
Workshop 3 – Insuring Risk in Carbon Markets: An Overview of Emerging Solutions
12:00
14:00
Welcome Lunch
12:00
13:45
By Invitation – IETA Carbon Accounting Executive Roundtable & Lunch
13:00
14:00
By Invitation – Roundtable on Piloting the Common Credit Data Model, Deliverable of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group Organised by the Climate Data Steering Committee. For more information, please contact Raphael Chaskalson,rchaskalson@climatedatasc.org, or Rhiannon Tomtishen,rtomtishen@gfanzero.com
13:00
14:00
NACS Media Briefing (For Media & Press Only)
13:45
15:15
By Invitation – ICAP & IETA Roundtable on ETS Developments in North America
14:00
15:00
Workshop 4 – Super Pollutants: The Science Behind, Their Importance & How to Use Them in Your Portfolio
17:30
18:30
Side Event 2 – Carbon Credit Use Cases – Searching for Legitimacy
Breakout Room | Organised by Verra
17:30
18:30
Side Event 2 – Carbon Credit Use Cases – Searching for Legitimacy
Breakout Room | Organised by Verra
14:30
15:30
By Invitation – ICROA 2.0
15:00
15:30
Coffee Break
15:20
16:20
Side Event 1 – Organised by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF): Advancing Affordability through Climate Ambition - How States can cut Household Costs while Cutting Pollution, and the Impact on U.S. Emissions
15:20
16:20
Side Event 2 – Organised by Fastmarkets: Carbon Markets Reshaping Forest Value Chains
15:20
16:20
Side Event 3 – Organised by Elevate Climate: Lessons Learned from California’s Battle Over Cap-and-Trade
16:30
17:30
Latin America Climate Summit Welcome Reception (opened to all Summit Delegates, access included in Delegate Passes)
16:30
17:30
Latin America Climate Summit Welcome Reception (opened to all Summit Delegates, access included in Delegate Passes)
16:30
17:30
Side Event 4 – Organised by Verra: Let's Talk About All of the Elephants in the Carbon Room
16:30
17:30
Side Event 5 – Organised by Equitable Earth: The New Alternative for REDD+
16:30
17:30
Side Event 6 – Organised by TUV SUD: Financing Industrial Decarbonization - Building Trust Across Global Value Chains
17:30
18:45
North America Climate Summit Welcome Reception Open to all Summit Delegates, included in the Delegate Pass
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
DAY 2
WEDNESDAY
24 September
08:00
08:30
Registration & Welcome Coffee
08:15
08:45
Opening Address & Armchairs: Scaling Market Solutions - Powering Progress & Growth
08:50
10:00
Plenary 1 – Emissions Trading Goes Global: Carbon Markets Around the World
10:00
10:30
Coffee Break
10:30
11:30
Plenary 2 – Market Infrastructure to Scale Carbon Credit Markets
11:40
12:25
Breakout 1 – Part 1: Underdogs of Carbon Markets - Scaling Emerging Carbon Solutions for Global Impact
12:25
12:40
Breakout 1 – Part 2: Premiere of Blue Catalyst: Blue Carbon Innovation Challenge
11:40
12:40
Breakout 2 – Analysts' Roundtable: North America Carbon Market Pricing, Forecasts and Outlooks
12:40
13:40
Networking Lunch
13:40
14:40
Plenary 3 – North America Subnational Climate Leadership & Cooperation
14:00
16:00
By Invitation – Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) Catalyzing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Production and Adoption Roundtable Organised by EDB, for more information please contact Rovik Jeremiah, Rovik_Jeremiah_ROBERT@edb.gov.sg
14:50
15:50
Breakout 3 – Nature-Based Removals and Reductions: Is Durability Nature’s Achilles' Heel?
14:50
15:50
Breakout 4 – Carbon at the Crossroads: Subnational Markets, Law, and What to Watch
15:00
17:00
By Invitation – WCI Board Meeting
15:50
16:20
Coffee Break
16:20
17:20
Side Event 7 – Organised by the Global Heat Reduction Initiative (GHR) - Too Hot to Ignore: Unlocking Near-Term Wins to Cool the Planet
16:20
17:20
Side Event 8 – Organised by 1PointFive: Making the Digital Issuance of Direct Air Capture (DAC) Credits a Reality - Scaling High-Integrity Carbon Removal with Microsoft’s ECS Platform
17:30
18:30
Plenary 4 – US Energy Policy Recalibration & Carbon Market Impacts
20:30
23:30
IETA Nightcap Party Limited capacity, separate paid ticket required for entrance via www.northamericaclimatesummit.com)
DAY 3
THURSDAY
25 September
08:30
09:30
Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:00
10:00
Side Event 9 – Organised by Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance: Insurance as a Catalyst to Enhance Carbon Credit Integrity
09:00
10:00
Side Event 10 – Organised by Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES): Energy Transition Credits – A New Strategy for Power Sector Decarbonization (By Invitation) To attend, please contact Clare Sierawski sierawskic@c2es.org
10:10
11:15
Plenary 5 – Voluntary Carbon Market: Building Towards Consensus and Scale
11:00
11:30
Coffee Break
11:30
12:30
Breakout 5 – The New Paradigm for International Carbon Markets: Article 6, CORSIA and the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM)
11:30
12:30
Breakout 6 – Maple Leaf Markets: Spotlight on Canada’s Carbon Markets
12:30
13:30
Networking Lunch
13:30
14:30
Side Event 11 – Organised by Climate Action Reserve (CAR): A Forward Look at High Potential Emerging Carbon Project Types
13:30
14:30
Side Event 12 – Organised by Hedera Foundation: Future of Digitalization & Carbon Markets
14:40
15:30
Breakout 7 – Engineered Removals & Geo-Storage: Where we are and Why It matters
14:40
15:30
Breakout 8 – Toward Data Standardization & Interoperability: Landscape and Outlook
15:30
16:00
Coffee Break
16:00
17:00
Plenary 6 – Carbon Accounting, Markets and Competitiveness: From Chaos to Coherence?
17:00
17:10
Closing Reflections by Dirk Forrister, President & CEO - IETA
16:20
17:20
IETA Nightcap Party
16:20
17:20
IETA Nightcap Party
Daily Snapshot
Summit Sessions, Side Events, Members & Invite Only Meetings,
LACS Welcome Reception (open to all delegates, included in delegate pass)
DAY 2:
Summit Sessions, Side Events, IETA Nightcap Party (limited
capacity, separate paid ticket)
DAY 2:
Summit Sessions, Side Events
This year’s summit program will explore key market developments, and include topics such as the:
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Mid-year status and outlook for compliance carbon markets across the U.S. (California, RGGI, Washington), Canada, and Mexico
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Market Realities and US Energy Policy: How they align
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Analysts’ Roundtable: North America Carbon Market Pricing, Forecasts and Outlooks
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Energy for AI, AI for energy
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Carbon accounting, reporting, and disclosure
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Carbon removals (nature and engineered)
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Role of insurance and risk management in carbon finance
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Operationalizing Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and key milestones to watch ahead of COP30 in Belém
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Maritime & ICAO’s CORSIA program and its implications for aviation
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Status of – and reactions to – the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
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Evolving role of verified carbon markets, including status of high integrity meta-standards, transparency, market infrastructure and new coalitions
More INFORMATION
Summit venue:
Start:
23 September 2025
End:
25 September 2025
BE VISIBLE AS A PARTNER SPONSOR
BEEN SEEN – BE HEARD – BE ACTIVE!
As part of this year’s North America Climate Summit (NACS) we are delighted to offer a limited number of partner sponsor packages, allocated on a first come first served bases. These provide branding and visibility opportunities, delegate passes, private meeting room access, exhibition spaces located at the heart of NACS in the ‘Carbon Market Lounge’, the possibility to host your own side event session, and invitations to exclusive social events. You can choose from a range of opportunities detailed HERE.
For more information please contact events@ieta.org
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Platinum Sponsor USD 20’000 (limited availability)
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Gold Sponsor USD 12’500 (limited availability)
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Silver Sponsor USD 7’000
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Bronze Sponsor USD 4’000
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Nightcap Sponsor USD 5’000
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Wifi Sponsor USD 5'000
PARTICIPATE AS A DELEGATE
Be part of the conversation driving the next phase of carbon market evolution! Registration is open until September 25th, 2025
Simply click HERE to secure your delegate pass.
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Delegate Pass - Standard Rate : USD 999
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Delegate Pass - Discounted Rate for IETA Members, NGOs, Governments & Academia : USD 799
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Press & Media : Free of charge – Contact Christian Mosquera to get registered, mosquera@ieta.org
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Nigthcap Reception Ticket;: USD 99
NIGHTCAP PARTY on September 24th! Make sure to purchase your tickets required for entrance HERE (limited availability!)
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Interested in being a partner sponsor, please contact Lisa Spafford: spafford@ieta.org - Sponsorship opportunities available HERE
Attend as a delegate, please contact Christian Mosquera: mosquera@ieta.org
For Media Participation, please contact Badr Maallem: maallem@ieta.org
For ICAP-related inquiry, contact Stefano, Stefano.declara@icapcarbonaction.com