Upcoming Events
Welcome to our upcoming events page. Here you can find all the latest information about the events we are hosting or participating in.
London Climate Action Week Schedule of Events
The VCM+ Coalition is heading to London Climate Action Week 2026, where we'll be hosting our formal global convening for Coalition members alongside a series of open and closed-door sessions co-hosted with partners to advance key parts of the VCM+ Action Agenda. We're excited to connect with members and the broader carbon market community while we're in town, and to use the week to deepen collaboration across the Coalition and beyond.
In addition to the sessions listed below, our member organizations will be hosting many of their own events throughout the week. You can find them in this shared spreadsheet of VCM+ Coalition member events at LCAW. If your organization is hosting an event you'd like Coalition members to attend, please add it here.
VCM+ Global Convening
Status: Open to all VCM+ Coalition Members
Date: Tuesday June 23rd, 2026, 12:30pm-5:00pm with reception to follow
The VCM+ Coalition is convening its global membership during London Climate Action Week 2026 to launch the VCM+ Action Agenda and chart a path forward for the year ahead. Taking place on June 23rd at the Clermont Charing Cross in London, this half-day gathering will bring Coalition members together to celebrate progress to date, introduce the inaugural cohort of VCM+ Fellows, and explore how collaboration across leading global initiatives is shaping the future of carbon markets. Sessions will tackle the questions central to scaling the market with integrity — from the demand drivers and cross-sector partnerships needed to reach 5 billion cumulative tons by 2035, to the catalytic role philanthropy can play in accelerating progress.
The afternoon will close with a networking reception where pillar leads will host table discussions on key Action Agenda priorities and field questions from members. The convening is open to VCM+ Coalition members only, with attendance limited to two participants per organization to support broad representation across the Coalition.
Enabling Equitable Participation in Global Carbon Markets - From Access to Agency
Status: Open to all VCM+ Coalition Members
Date: Tuesday June 23rd, 2026, 9:00am-12:00pm
As we build the next generation of verified carbon markets, much of the focus has rightly been on strengthening standards, building key infrastructure, and scaling demand. Yet a more fundamental question often goes unaddressed: who is able to participate in these markets, and on what terms? Participation is too often framed as a question of readiness or capacity when, in practice, it is shaped by how the system itself functions — by how rules are set, how demand is signaled, and how risks and value are distributed. Where these dynamics constrain participation, pipelines struggle to scale, supply remains uneven, buyer confidence weakens, and finance does not flow at the pace required. Equitable participation will not emerge automatically as markets grow; it needs to be deliberately enabled.
Convened by the VCM+ Coalition in partnership with Climate Action Platform Africa, this London Climate Action Week working session is designed to move from diagnosis to action. Across three hours of moderated discussion, participants will interrogate how rule-setting, demand signals, safeguards, and project-level realities interact to shape who reaches the market, drawing on the African experience to surface where current structures are not functioning as intended and where targeted changes could unlock more equitable participation at scale. The session will converge on a prioritized set of 3–5 concrete actions that can be progressed beyond LCAW.
What We Talk About When We Talk About VCM+: Communicating the Market’s Many Developments
Status: Open to all VCM+ Coalition Members
Date: Tuesday June 23rd, 2026, 9:00am-10:30am
The verified carbon market has changed substantially in recent years. Leading institutions have built and strengthened the infrastructure underpinning the market, raised the bar on project impact, and made meaningful progress on the criticisms that have been levelled at the market over the past decade. By many measures, the verified carbon market today is in a stronger position than it has been at any point in its history. Yet the global media and policy discourse has not kept pace with this work, and key decisions continue to be shaped by an outdated understanding of where the market is and where it is heading. Closing that gap is not a communications problem alone, but communications is a meaningful part of the solution.
Hosted by the VCM+ Coalition during London Climate Action Week, this interactive working session will bring Coalition members together to take stock of the communications work already underway across the Coalition, surface where additional coordination could strengthen its reach, and align on shared messages and talking points members can carry into their own work. The goal is to leave with a clearer collective picture of how the Coalition can more effectively tell the story of the market's progress to the audiences shaping its future.
Unpacking the Opportunity and Flagging Challenges - How AI is Strengthening Integrity and Quality across Carbon Markets
Status: Open to all VCM+ Coalition Members
Date: Tuesday June 23rd, 2026, 10:30am-12:00pm
Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how the carbon market measures, monitors, verifies, and communicates, and the pace of change will only accelerate in the months ahead. The question is not whether the market will integrate AI, but whether it will do so thoughtfully, equitably, and in ways that strengthen rather than undermine its integrity and environmental impact. AI is not an uncomplicated good: concerns about algorithmic opacity, data sovereignty, environmental footprint, and equity — particularly for communities in the Global South whose lands and livelihoods underpin many carbon projects — are legitimate and must be engaged seriously.
This session is the first in a series of VCM+ Coalition conversations on AI and carbon markets, continuing through New York Climate Week and COP. Together, members will demystify what AI can do to strengthen carbon market integrity, surface early innovators and emerging trends, and take stock of the governance and safeguard challenges that come with rapid adoption. The goal is to leave with a clearer sense of where momentum is already building and where the Coalition should focus its engagement over the year ahead.
Mobilizing Finance Across the Nature and Agriculture Carbon Project Lifecycle
Status: Closed Door, Invite-Only
Date: Wednesday June 24th, 2026, 9:00am-12:00pm
Nature and agriculture carbon projects play a critical role in the supply of high-quality credits the market needs, but they remain difficult to finance. Key gaps persist across the project lifecycle — from early-stage design and development through to credit issuance — and these gaps are a meaningful constraint on the pace at which credible supply can scale. A growing range of funds and financing mechanisms are emerging to address different parts of the problem, but capital remains fragmented across philanthropic, public, and commercial sources, and clarity on where each mechanism fits within the broader lifecycle is still limited.
Hosted by the VCM+ Coalition and key philanthropic partners during London Climate Action Week, this invitation-only workshop will bring leading actors across the carbon finance ecosystem together for a working session focused on solutions. The session will open with a shared mapping of financing gaps across the nature and agriculture project lifecycle, followed by spotlights from a range of fund structures on the gaps they are addressing and the mechanisms behind them. A moderated discussion will close out the session, exploring how these approaches fit together and where more coordinated action could help unlock scale.
Financial Infrastructure for Carbon Markets: A VCM+ Working Session
Status: Closed Door, Invite-Only
Date: Wednesday June 24th, 2026, 1:00pm-5:00pm
If verified carbon markets are going to absorb institutional capital at scale, they need the legal, financial, and contractual infrastructure that other established asset classes operate within. Today, that infrastructure is incomplete, and the gaps are most acute at the point where institutional capital actually engages the market. Closing them is foundational work — touching legal title, data integrity, registry interoperability, accounting treatment, and more — and progress depends on coordination across actors that no single institution can deliver alone.
Hosted by VCM+ Coalition and partners, this invitation-only working session convenes VCM+ partners and collaborators to advance key topics on the financial infrastructure of verified carbon markets. The agenda progresses work across foundational issue areas identified by the ICVCM CIWP 7 report and the Coalition to Grow Carbon Markets work plan, including legal title, data integrity, registry interoperability, accounting, and dispute resolution.
A Working Session on a Common Approach to Social and Environmental Safeguards Across Carbon Markets
Status: Closed Door, Invite-Only
Date: Thursday June 25th, 2026, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Carbon market expectations on social and environmental integrity are rising sharply — but they are uneven across standards, mechanisms, and jurisdictions, and increasingly costly to navigate. Many concurrent market processes are in the process of formalizing safeguard expectations. Without a common reference, the result will be more fragmentation, higher transaction costs, and weaker outcomes for the rights-holders the system is meant to protect. A shared, practical framework is needed — one that raises the floor on safeguards while remaining flexible across market segments — and no single institution can deliver it alone.
Hosted by the VCM+ Coalition and UNDP during London Climate Action Week, this 3-hour working session will align prospective working group participants on a Coalition-led initiative to co-develop a neutral, cross-market framework for social and environmental safeguards and sustainable development outcomes. Participants will pressure-test the proposed framework and shape how the initiative should be sequenced, governed, and delivered in the year ahead.