21 April 2011, Moscow - United Nations Development Programme in cooperation with the Institute of Contemporary Development and NCSF with support of the Strategic Program Fund (UK), All-Russian public organization "Business Russia”, and EC/TACIS project “Support for Kyoto Protocol Implementation” will conduct international conference “Market Mechanisms of Climate Policy”.

The main goal of this international conference is to discuss the development trends of national and international emissions trading schemes (ETSs), prospects of the development and the coupling of ETSs in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine as well as organizational and economic issues of participation of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) airlines in ETS.

Thematic focuses of the conference include:

1. State and prospects of the international cooperation in the climate politics;
2. Review of the state and trends of the national and international ETS;
3. Content and procedural aspects for creating national ETSs in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia;
4. Conditions of the harmonization and the coupling of national ETSs. Requirements for cooperation between countries among themselves and with EU;
5. Participation of the CIS airlines in EU ETS: procedural and economic issues. Prospects of the implementation of the regional ETS for the CIS airlines;
6. Suitability of national carbon market infrastructure i.e. for carbon allowances turnover.

Working languages of the conference are Russian and English.

The Conference will take place on 21 April 2011 at the premises of the Institute of Contemporary Development: Moscow, Delegatskaya str., 7, bldg. 1. Event will begin at 10h00.

To register please contact to Morgacheva Yulia at MorgachevaYV@ncsf.ru and tel. +7 499 788 78 35