Course 17 of 20 · Emissions and Carbon Desk Academy

Article 6 & Cross-Border Transactions

Stage E, Integrity, stress and integrated practice. Level 9 of 10.

Internationally transferred units, authorisation and corresponding adjustment mechanics, and host country transaction structuring.

117 chapters · 10 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 03, Course 06, Course 07

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How a chapter is delivered

One chapter is one idea taken to the point of use

Each chapter covers one idea to the point where you can use it, and comes two ways: a narrated explainer, and a deep dive audio discussion of around thirty minutes that works the same material at depth.

Self-paced throughout, and the same chapters can be taught as a cohort. Chapters run in order: each one assumes only what the chapters before it taught, and capability belonging to a later course is named and deferred rather than half-covered.

Curriculum

10 modules · 117 chapters

Open any module for its full chapter list, in teaching order.

M0 Why Mitigation Outcomes Cross Borders Ch 1-11
  1. Mitigation Where It Is Cheapest, Counted Where It Is Paid For
  2. What the Cooperation Article Added to the Paris Architecture
  3. Nationally Determined Contributions as the Ledger Behind Every Transfer
  4. Double Counting and the Three Ways It Happens
  5. The Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcome Defined
  6. Authorised Units Against Mitigation Contribution Units
  7. Why Kyoto-Era Instincts Mislead Here
  8. Who Sits Around a Cross-Border Carbon Table
  9. Where a Carbon Desk Actually Touches This Machinery
  10. The Working Vocabulary of Cross-Border Carbon
  11. The Shape of This Subject and What It Hands Over
M1 The Corresponding Adjustment Ch 12-24
  1. The Emissions Balance as a Running National Account
  2. The Addition Made When a Unit Is First Transferred
  3. The Deduction Taken When a Unit Is Used
  4. Single-Year Pledges and the Averaging Problem
  5. Multi-Year Pledges and the Cumulative Trajectory
  6. Vintage, Permission Year and Pledge Period Alignment
  7. A Worked Adjustment, Part One: The Host Ledger
  8. A Worked Adjustment, Part Two: The Acquiring Ledger
  9. Adjustments Made for International Aviation Offsetting
  10. Adjustments Made for Other Permitted Purposes
  11. When No Adjustment Is Made At All
  12. Avoiding Net Overcount Across Two Ledgers
  13. Correcting an Adjustment That Went Wrong
M2 Authorisation Ch 25-36
  1. What an Authorisation Is and What It Is Not
  2. The Domestic Power a Government Authorises Under
  3. Reading a Letter of Authorisation
  4. Authorising an Activity Against Authorising Volume
  5. Naming the Permitted Purpose, and Why It Binds
  6. Conditional Permission and Its Triggers
  7. First Transfer as the Moment of Commitment
  8. Revocation and Whether It Reaches Volume Already Moved
  9. Revising a Permission After Transfer
  10. Sequencing Permission, Issuance, Transfer and Use
  11. Pricing the Risk That Permission Never Arrives
  12. A Worked Authorisation Dossier
M3 Cooperative Approaches Between Governments Ch 37-48
  1. What Makes an Arrangement a Cooperative Approach
  2. The Treaty-Level Agreement Between Two Governments
  3. Implementation Agreements and Activity-Level Documents
  4. The Initial Report and What It Must Establish
  5. Participation Responsibilities Each Government Accepts
  6. Metrics Other Than Carbon Dioxide Equivalent
  7. Japan's Joint Crediting Mechanism as a Bilateral Channel
  8. The Swiss Buyer-Side Model and Its Procurement Discipline
  9. Nordic Government Purchasing of Permitted Volume
  10. Voluntary Adaptation Contributions and Overall Mitigation
  11. Bilateral Guidance: What Is Settled and What Is Still Forming
  12. Non-Market Cooperation and Why It Yields Nothing Tradable
M4 The Centrally Supervised Crediting Mechanism Ch 49-60
  1. The Mechanism and Its Supervisory Body
  2. The Mechanism's Activity Cycle in Outline
  3. Host Approval Inside a Centralised Mechanism
  4. The Methodological Standard and Baseline Setting
  5. Downward Baseline Adjustment and the Ambition Ratchet
  6. The Removals Standard and Its Reversal Provisions
  7. The Compulsory Adaptation Share of Proceeds
  8. Compulsory Cancellation for Overall Mitigation
  9. Permitted and Unpermitted Volume From One Mechanism
  10. Transition of Earlier Mechanism Activities
  11. Legacy Certificates and the Limits on Their Use
  12. Choosing Between the Central Mechanism and a Bilateral Channel
M5 Host Country Frameworks Ch 61-72
  1. Why a Host Government Refuses
  2. Pledge Headroom and the Abatement a Host Keeps
  3. Conditional and Unconditional Parts of a Pledge
  4. A National Carbon Market Framework as a Legal Object
  5. Ghana's Framework and Its Carbon Market Office
  6. Kenya's Benefit Sharing Requirement
  7. Zimbabwe's Statutory Instrument and the Host Take
  8. Indonesia's Domestic-First Sequencing
  9. India's Restricted Activity Posture
  10. Brazil's Regulated System and Its International Interface
  11. Papua New Guinea and the Moratorium as a Sovereign Instrument
  12. Assessing a Host Framework You Have Never Read Before
M6 Structuring the Transaction With the Host Ch 73-84
  1. Who Owns the Outcome Before Anyone Permits It
  2. The Authorisation Application as a Commercial Document
  3. Host Levies, Fees and Takes in Units
  4. Benefit Sharing as a Priced Obligation
  5. The Government Layer Above the Private Contract
  6. Allocating the Risk That the Adjustment Is Not Made
  7. Representations a Purchaser Should Seek on Permission
  8. Change of Law and the Stabilisation Question
  9. Payment, Tax and Withholding on a Cross-Border Sale
  10. Dispute Resolution Against a Sovereign Counterparty
  11. A Worked Host Structure, Part One: The Architecture
  12. A Worked Host Structure, Part Two: The Cost Stack
M7 Who Buys Permitted Volume Ch 85-95
  1. What a Purchaser Is Paying Extra For
  2. International Aviation Offsetting and Its Eligible Units
  3. The Attestation the Aviation Scheme Requires
  4. Guyana's Jurisdictional Issuance Into Aviation Demand
  5. Singapore's Tax Offset Route
  6. Switzerland's Statutory Import Demand
  7. National Schemes That Admit Foreign Volume, and Those That Do Not
  8. Corporate Purchasers Who Want the Adjustment
  9. Negotiating Without a Screen Price
  10. Forward Commitments From Government Purchasers
  11. The Case That Demand Does Not Materialise
M8 Reporting, Review and Evidence Ch 96-106
  1. Annual Information and the Accounting Table
  2. The Biennial Report and Its Structured Summary
  3. The Expert Review of Cooperation Reporting
  4. Review Findings and Their Commercial Consequences
  5. The International Accounting Infrastructure
  6. Reconciling a Host Record With Your Own Position
  7. What a Purchaser Can Verify Without the Seller's Help
  8. Confidentiality Claims and Their Boundaries
  9. Assembling the Transaction Evidence File
  10. Assurance Over Cooperation Disclosures
  11. The Dated Position Note a Desk Should Keep
M9 Working It Through, and the Limits Ch 107-117
  1. Pricing a Permission Contingency Into a Bid
  2. A Complete Transaction, Part One: Origination to Permission
  3. A Complete Transaction, Part Two: Issuance to Adjustment
  4. A Complete Transaction, Part Three: Defending It Two Years Later
  5. The Integrity Critique and What It Assumes
  6. The Overachievement Argument and Its Assumptions
  7. When an Adjusted Unit Is Not Worth Buying
  8. What Structuring Cannot Protect Against
  9. Rules Still Forming, and How to Write Around Them
  10. The Cross-Border Diligence Sequence
  11. Where This Capability Hands Over

The brochure gives each of these 117 chapters a paragraph on what it covers and what you can do once you have worked through it.

This is course 17 of twenty

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