Delivered by clean-tech experts using S& Global Commodity Insights' latest research, this training course will equip you with a basic understanding of the technologies that will enable the energy transition. We will unravel the complex interaction between markets, technology, and supply chains that drive profitability in the clean energy technology industry.

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Course Outline

• Overview of Clean Power Technologies

• Technology 101

• Technology and Cost Trend

• Supply Chain Trends and Outlooks

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With careful design and implementation, carbon markets can be crucial in transitioning to a low-carbon economy. Learn how, despite the challenges, carbon markets offer a significant opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change.

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Course Outline

• Carbon Markets and Pricing Overview
  • Why do we need a carbon price?
  • What are carbon pricing tools and how do they work?
  • Different types and purposes of carbon markets and pricing
  • Overview of different features and dynamics

• How do Carbon Markets and Pricing fit within Global Climate Policy?
  • A global challenge: politics & economics of climate change
  • Comparison of climate policy instruments
  • UN frameworks: the Paris Agreement, UNFCCC, COP process and the Sustainable
  • Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Key global institutions on carbon markets

• Compliance Carbon Markets & Pricing
  • Carbon trading (ETS) versus carbon tax
  • Global compliance markets and pricing schemes
  • Regional specifics and development in key economies (G20)

• The voluntary Carbon Markets
  • What is the VCM and how does it work?
  • Key VCM bodies, stakeholders and participants
  • Supply-side: various project types, nature vs tech-based, reduction/avoidance vs removals, credit-generation process, what do we mean by high quality?
  • Demand-side: buyers' perspective, preferences and making claims
  • Trading: ratings, exchanges, trends and barriers
  • Global & regional trends

• Article 6 & Global Carbon Linkages
  • What is Article 6 and what does it do?
  • Progress of 6.2 and 6.4 mechanisms
  • EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
  • Carbon clubs

• Nature-based Solutions & Biodiversity
  • What are nature-based solutions (NBS) and natural climate solutions (NCS)?
  • The size of the prize: what is their potential?
  • Opportunities and challenges for scaling
  • Linkages between NBS, land-use and agriculture
  • Biodiversity as a metric and crediting

• Implications for Corporates
  • Fundamentals of net-zero
  • Corporate strategies for carbon management
  • Carbon market Investments
  • Different carbon accounting frameworks
  • Reporting requirements relating to climate and nature-based risks

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The actions to meet net zero targets has increased globally, creating opportunities for those who understand the fundamentals of carbon markets and how they support the wider energy transition. Our future-focused curriculum will equip you with the tools and skills to tap into these nascent opportunities.

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Course details

1. Carbon Market Fundamentals:
   • Compliance Carbon Markets & Pricing
     • Carbon trading (ETS) vs carbon tax
     • Compliance markets and pricing schemes
     • Regional specifics and development in key economies (G20)
   • The Voluntary Carbon Markets
     • Key VCM bodies, stakeholders and participants
     • Demand-side: buyers' perspective, preferences and making claims
     • Trading: ratings, exchanges, trends and barriers; Global & regional trends
   • Article 6 & Global Carbon Linkages
     • What is Article 6 and what does it do?
     • Progress of 6.2 and 6.4 mechanisms
     • EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM); Carbon clubs 2.
2. Carbon Pricing
   • Carbon Markets and Pricing Overview
     • Why do we need a carbon price?
     • What are carbon pricing tools and how do they work?
     • Overview of different features and dynamics
   • How do Carbon Markets and Pricing fit within Global Climate Policy?
     • Comparison of climate policy instruments
     • UN frameworks; Key global institutions on carbon markets
3. Carbon Scenarios
   • Fundamentals of net-zero
   • Understand net-zero cases and how they translate into potential GHG emissions outcomes that could arise in uncertain markets.
4. Carbon Accounting:
   • Cross-cutting view of carbon intensity for different commodities;
   • Different frameworks, use cases and how industries can apply carbon accounting
5. Carbon Registries
   • Detailed view of the critical infrastructure required to manage all your global carbon in a centralized, financial markets-based registry system.
   • Nature-based Solutions & Biodiversity
     • NBS & natural climate solutions (NCS)?
     • Linkages between NBS, land-use and agriculture
     • Biodiversity as a metric and crediting
     • Reporting requirements relating to climate and nature-based risks
6. Opportunities for Industry
   • Overview of the sustainability products, insights, and solutions helping companies meet their needs in the carbon ecosystem.
   • Corporate strategies for carbon management
   • Carbon market Investments; NBS & Biodiversity Potential

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Oil market experts teach this course, delivering a concise and powerful history of the oil market, oil demand and supply, and geopolitics to understand the present and how the future may unfold. It provides an overview of oil and the forces shaping the oil and energy markets as the energy transition moves ahead.

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Course details

1. Oil Market Fundamentals
   • Global energy fundamentals: global energy supply & demand
   • Structure of the world oil industry
   • Market fundamentals (part 1): Oil market history; oil demand and supply; forces shaping future of world oil demand; history of oil supply regulation; US Shale; Emergence of OPEC+
   • Market fundamentals (part 2): oil price history; factors shaping the oil price today; the role of futures markets; price benchmarks.
   • Oil and the energy transition: How to think about the future.
2. Oil Price Discovery and Trading
   • Oil Pricing: How does the Brent market work? Understanding what the physical trading data represents; Methodology: How do we arrive at the price?
   • Trading: The mechanics of trading physical crude
   • Oil Price Forecast
3. Benchmarks
   • Overview of Platts Oil Benchmarks and assessment methodology
   • Update on Platts Benchmarks: Dated Brent/Urals
   • Update on Platts Benchmarks: Platts Dubai/Oman
4. Market Outlook
   • How to develop an oil price outlook, short and long term
   • Value of scenario framework for forecasting
   • Oil market outlook to 2024 and through 2050

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This course addresses industry profitability fundamentals, including chemical structures and properties, process technologies, cost of production methodologies, key producers, end-use applications, market sizes, and trade patterns across the petrochemical value chains.

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Course details

1. Detailed look at the foundation of the petrochemical industry
   • Feedstocks, including natural gas, NGLs, petroleum, coal, and biobased.
   • Industry's 7 Basic Building Blocks: Syngas, Ethylene, Propylene, C4 Olefins, Benzene, Toluene, and Xylenes.
   • Exploration of each building block's value chain.
2. Downstream: a look at more specialized product areas
   • LAOs, EO/MEG, PO, Phenol, BPA, PC, Epoxies, Acrylics/SAP, Plasticizers, ACN, Synthetic Rubbers, 1,4-BDO, ABS, Nylons, Polyurethanes, PF, MF, UF Resins and many others
3. Places current industry structure into historical perspective
4. Interaction of technology, markets, and economics underlying the petrochemical industry
5. What drives present market conditions?
6. Where are future growth opportunities?

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This course provides a fundamental understanding of how the global LNG markets are structured and the setting of regional LNG prices.

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Course details

1. History of LNG
   • Properties, containment systems, and development
2. LNG Market Overview
   • Overview of the LNG supply chain covering liquefaction, shipping, and regasification.
   • The global LNG demand growth outlook
   • LNG demand growth in key markets
   • The capacity of new supply projects to meet future demand.
   • Sellers, buyers: profile of key and emerging LNG companies, and their challenges.
3. LNG pricing
   • Commercial contracts and pricing formula mechanisms –including oil linkage, hub linkage, Platts JKM, and hybrid formulas
   • Contract vs. spot pricing
   • LNG contracting trends include indexation type, length of contracts, and contract slope evolution.
   • Key drivers behind the short, medium, and long-term regional LNG pricing outlook
4. • How global LNG trade works
   • Shipping from a trade perspective: fleet size, development, shipping cost, charter rates
5. Market Development and Outlook
   • Long-term themes
   • What's next for the energy transition

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This course provides an understanding of the evolving LNG, low carbon gases & hydrogen industries and develop strategic solutions to the most pressing challenges faced across the business..

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Course details

1. The Hydrogen Economy
   • Different types of hydgrogen
   • Hydrogen production pathways
   • Hydgrogen's complementary role
   • Advantages & limitations of the hydrogen economy
2. Hydrogen Market & Demand
   • Supply / Demand
   • Critical points
   • Required infastructure and its effect on market and demand
   • Requirements and barriers
3. Effect on the Hydrogen Market on Other Industry
   • The big-three-W on the hydrogen market
   • Hydrogen market on other industries
   • Hydrogen and manufacturing
   • Security, Affordability, and trends
4. Technology Status & Costs
   • Relevance of projects
   • Moving from hydrogen colors to carbon intensity
5. Ammonia
6. Policy Drivers
7. Outlook: How will Hydrogen Markets Evolve?
   • Trends
   • Major How fast can hydrogen scale?
   • Hydrogen shift: Essential Considerations
   • Leveraging opportunities
   • How will hydrogen change the market?

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This course provides fundamental understanding of how the global LNG markets are structured and priced, and how low carbon fuels will increasingly play an important role in decarbonising selected parts of the energy system transitioning away from fossil fuels

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Course details

1. Energy Transition
   • What is energy transition? What are the energy transition drivers? Climate scenerios: The future of energy
2. Emissions
   • Carbon and methane intensities
3. LNG Market Overview
   • Overview of the LNG supply chain
   • Global LNG demand growth outlook
   • New supply projects capacities
   • Profiles of key and emergin LNG stakeholders, and their challenges
4. LNG Pricing
   • Commercial contracts and pricing formula mechanisms
5. LNG Shipping
   • How global LNG trade works
   • Shipping from a trade perspective: fleet size, development, shipping cost, charter rates
6. Hydrogen
   • Production and use of hydrogen
   • Hydrogen derived low carbon fuels
7. Biofuels
   • Supply, demand and outlook

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