What’s New in the GCET25 Programme
Attendees can expect a balanced schedule featuring plenaries, parallel tracks, poster showcases, and city-lab workshops. Curated roundtables connect policy makers, industry, finance, and researchers to move from theory to implementation.
Confirmed Session Tracks
- Carbon Pricing & ETS: Rate setting, thresholds, revenue recycling, and linking schemes.
- CBAM & Trade: Product-level footprinting, leakage risks, and export competitiveness for developing economies.
- Just Transition & Equity: Protecting low-income households, reskilling workers, and social dialogue.
- MRV & Data Systems: Emissions accounting, audits, digital reporting, and assurance.
- Climate Finance & JETP: Blended finance, de-risking tools, and city-scale investment pipelines.
- Nature-Based Solutions & Biodiversity: Tax incentives, restoration credits, and co-benefits.
- Sub-National Action: Provincial tariffs, municipal levies, and climate-budgeting for cities.
- Industry Decarbonisation: Hard-to-abate sectors, green hydrogen, and circular economy policy.
- Law, Governance & Compliance: Tax law design, dispute resolution, and international coordination.
- Youth & Emerging Scholars: Early-career panels and the Young Researcher Award.
Keynotes, Posters & Networking
Daily keynotes anchor the agenda with evidence-based insights, while poster sessions highlight frontier research. Delegates can connect at the welcome reception, curated meet-ups, and a marquee gala evening, building partnerships for pilots and publications.
Who Should Attend
- Policy and treasury teams designing carbon taxes, ETS, and CBAM responses.
- Businesses and financiers scaling clean technology and supply-chain decarbonisation.
- Researchers, legal practitioners, and city officials seeking practical toolkits.
How to Get the Most from GCET25
Build your personalised agenda in advance, book 1:1 meetings around coffee breaks, and bring concise slide decks for rapid-fire demos. Track pages include reading lists, session abstracts, and speaker bios to help you prep.
Next Steps
Secure your spot, review the full programme, and watch for late-breaking panels. With carbon pricing, CBAM, and just transition at its core, GCET25 Stellenbosch is the year’s must-attend forum for climate-smart fiscal policy.
