Carbon Currents Roundtable: Building the Demand Side – Compliance, Convergence and Exchange-Traded Carbon

21 September, 2026

NYMEX, CME Group, 300 Vesey Street, New York, NY

This is an invitation only event. For more information, please contact the SSE team.

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About the event

During New York Climate Action Week, NYMEX (a CME Group company) will host a closed-door roundtable in partnership with the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative and S&P Global Energy to explore the intersection of global carbon markets, energy security and decarbonization.

This invitation-only Carbon Currents Roundtable convenes leading experts to accelerate the evolution of exchange-traded carbon markets. The discussion focuses on harmonizing infrastructure, enhancing scalability, and standardizing procedures to enable large-scale carbon trading across sectors. This New York Climate Week event takes place as part of a global series of Carbon Current Roundtables organized by the UN SSE in collaboration with S&P Global Energy and hosted by UN SSE partner exchanges.
The evolving global energy landscape is placing decarbonization at the centre of discussions on energy security, climate action and sustainable finance. As governments, markets and companies seek to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy, questions remain about the role international carbon markets can play in driving emissions reductions and mobilizing climate finance.

While carbon markets have helped accelerate decarbonization in some regions and sectors, their development at the international level remains fragmented. Greater coordination and market development may be needed to support global emissions reductions, strengthen liquidity, and channel much-needed climate finance from the Global North to the Global South.

The discussion will focus on:

The implications of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAMs) for global carbon markets;
How to build liquidity across regionally fragmented and structurally different carbon markets;
The contribution carbon markets can make to global decarbonization as energy security becomes an increasingly central policy priority; and
Whether existing international mechanisms, including Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and CORSIA, are sufficient to meet expected demand, and what further action is needed to scale carbon markets.