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IETA Climate Finance Working Group

Financing carbon market instruments, investor-grade transparency, securitised carbon assets.

Personalisation — person + organisation + alignment

Named recipient
Lisa DeMarco
Co-Chair, IETA Climate Finance Working Group; Senior Partner & CEO of Resilient LLP
IETA Climate Finance Working Group
Recent work
Veteran climate-change lawyer. Advises governments, international organisations, and corporations on legal and financial aspects of market-based climate mechanisms.

Signals the recipient responds to

Organisational context

Positions
Climate Finance WG focuses on mobilising private and public finance for climate action through market mechanisms.
Active initiatives
Financial-instrument design; securitised carbon assets; blended-finance approaches.
Pressures
Investor demand for investor-grade transparency in carbon-backed instruments.

Specific alignment

Why this recipient benefits: WG endorsement of per-tonne evidentiary disclosure as an investor-grade transparency property positions proof-pack-equipped carbon assets as investor-grade instruments. DeMarco's legal-financial depth means the position paper speaks to the legal standards investors require.

Why now: WG programme 2025-2026.

The ask: WG brief on proof-pack-equipped carbon assets as investor-grade instruments.

Working group
IETA Climate Finance Working Group

Focus

Financing carbon market instruments, investor-grade transparency, securitised carbon assets.

The ask

Climate Finance WG endorsement of per-tonne evidentiary disclosure as an investor-grade transparency property.

Deliverable

WG brief on proof-pack-equipped carbon assets as investor-grade instruments.

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

Trellison Institute

Research and methodology.

Carbon capture research →

Artrellion

Policy and stakeholder engagement.

Carbon release arsenal →

LedgerWell

Operational verification.

Carbon business cases →

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