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IETA Article 6 Working Group

Operational implementation of Paris Agreement Article 6.2 (country-to-country transfers) and 6.4 (UN-supervised crediting mechanism under the Supervisory Body).

Personalisation — person + organisation + alignment

Named recipient
Chandra Shekhar Sinha (World Bank) and Kelley Kizzier (Bezos Earth Fund)
Co-Chairs, IETA Article 6 Working Group (2024-2025 term)
IETA Article 6 Working Group
Recent work
Sinha: Advisor, Climate Change Group at World Bank. Leads SCALE fund and UNFCCC technical negotiations. Kizzier: Director, Corporate Action and Markets at Bezos Earth Fund. Former VP Global Climate at EDF, lead EU climate negotiator. ICVCM co-chair.

Signals the recipient responds to

Organisational context

Positions
IETA Article 6 WG is the industry voice on Paris Agreement Article 6.2 and 6.4 operationalisation.
Active initiatives
Article 6 rulebook operationalisation; SCALE fund deployment; ICVCM-Article 6 convergence.
Pressures
Supervisory Body timing; bilateral agreement scaling under Article 6.2.

Specific alignment

Why this recipient benefits: WG endorsement of per-tonne evidentiary disclosure as a shared 6.2-and-6.4 implementation property reduces bilateral-recognition friction. Kizzier's ICVCM co-chair role links the WG position to the Core Carbon Principles in a directly operational way. Sinha's World Bank infrastructure means SCALE-fund-compatible implementation.

Why now: WG work programme 2025-2026 term.

The ask: WG technical note. Proof-pack schema as Article 6 interoperability property; SCALE-fund integration analysis.

Working group
IETA Article 6 Working Group

Focus

Operational implementation of Paris Agreement Article 6.2 (country-to-country transfers) and 6.4 (UN-supervised crediting mechanism under the Supervisory Body).

The ask

IETA Article 6 WG recognition that per-tonne evidentiary disclosure is a shared implementation property across Article 6.2 and 6.4 transfers, reducing bilateral recognition friction.

Deliverable

WG-endorsed technical note on proof-pack-equivalent disclosure as an Article 6 interoperability property.

Why IETA is the right venue

IETA is the business voice of the emissions-trading industry. IETA working-group endorsement of per-tonne evidentiary disclosure translates immediately into uptake by member companies — traders, project developers, verification firms, and corporate offtake buyers. The ~300 IETA members are also the actors who will price proof-pack-equipped credits once they exist.

The three org-level IETA documents — the Integration Whitepaper, Partnership Proposal, and Technology Alignment Analysis — should be presented at the relevant working group rather than at the board level first. Working-group-level engagement is where the technical acceptance happens; board-level engagement is where the organisational endorsement follows.

See the three IETA org-level documents →

The co-dependence network

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