Argus Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) Training Day
Implications and strategies for success
Sectoral impacts | Compliance strategies | Market outlook
This full-day training workshop provides a practical guide to navigating CBAM as it moves from transition to enforcement.
One year into implementation, companies are confronting the gap between policy and practice—moving beyond default values, preparing for verification in 2027, and managing growing commercial exposure. Taking place at a critical point at the end of 2026, this training day focuses on what CBAM means in reality: for compliance, sourcing strategies and pricing.
Hosted in Rotterdam, a key European trade hub, the workshop brings together stakeholders across affected sectors to explore real-world challenges, sector-specific impacts and emerging market shifts.
Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how to manage CBAM risk, prepare for verified reporting, and plan for the introduction of certificate purchasing.
Open to importers, exporters, producers, traders and compliance professionals, this training day is relevant to all sectors currently covered by CBAM, including fertilizers, steel, cement and more.
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Learning objectives
Interpret CBAM reporting obligations across sectors and understand how to transition from default values to verified emissions data.
Distinguish between transitional and early enforcement requirements, including verification expectations, timelines and preparation for certificate purchasing from 2027.
Assess the real-world impact of CBAM on procurement, logistics and supply chain decisions as companies respond to compliance risk and data availability.
Apply carbon pricing and financial planning tools to estimate CBAM-related costs, including exposure to EUA prices and future certificate purchasing requirements.
Evaluate CBAM’s evolving impact on trade flows and competitiveness, including how verification, data transparency and policy developments are shaping market behaviour.
Course outline 2026
Registration open
- 08:30 - 09:00
Registration and welcome coffee
Morning sessions
- 09:00 - 09:10
Opening remarks: why this training day, why now?
- 09:10 - 09:50
CBAM 2027 readiness: what has changed, what is still uncertain and what companies must prepare for now?
- Latest regulatory timeline and expected clarity by late 2026
- Scope extension, simplification proposals and Article 27a/suspension clause uncertainty
- What importers, producers and declarants should treat as “known enough” to act on now
- How EU CBAM interacts with ETS changes and free allowance phase-out
Speakers Include:
Dylan Gereats
CounselMayer Brown- 09:50 - 10:10
UK CBAM: preparing for a separate UK compliance regime from 2027
- What the UK CBAM will cover from 1 January 2027, including aluminium, cement, fertilizers, hydrogen, iron and steel
- How the UK regime is expected to operate as a tax/levy rather than a certificate purchase-and-surrender system
- Direct emissions coverage from launch and the delay to indirect emissions until 2029 at the earliest
- How UK ETS prices, free allowances and sector-specific rates may shape importer liability
- What UK importers, customs agents and suppliers should do now to prepare data, contracts and internal ownership
- 10:10 - 10:30
EU vs UK CBAM: key differences, alignment risks and how the two regimes may interact
- Where EU and UK CBAM differ on timing, scope, administration and financial mechanics
- How treatment of electricity, indirect emissions, thresholds and reporting obligations may create practical divergence
- How carbon prices already paid overseas may be recognised and evidenced to reduce double-charging risk
- What EU/UK ETS linkage or mutual exemptions could mean for goods traded between the EU and UK
- How companies trading across both markets can avoid duplicated processes and build one data model for two regimes
- 10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
- 11:00 - 11:40
From reporting to audit-ready data: monitoring plans, system boundaries and documentation
- What a CBAM monitoring plan needs to capture
- Product boundaries, installation boundaries and emissions sources
- How to evidence physical data vs calculated emissions factors
- What suppliers need to provide to enable verified actual values
- Common documentation gaps that could force use of default values
- How producers and importers can build traceable, audit-ready processes before 2027
- 11:40 - 12:30
Verification in practice: what happens before, during and after verification?
- Who can verify CBAM emissions data and what accreditation means
- Expected timing of accredited verifiers and first audits
- What verifiers will look for in monitoring plans and emissions data
- How non-EU producers should prepare
- What importers can realistically ask suppliers for
- What happens if data are incomplete, late or not in the required format
Networking lunch
- 12:30 - 13:30
Networking lunch
Afternoon sessions
- 13:30 - 14:15
Sector breakout roundtables: where CBAM costs and verification risk are showing up first
Roundtable options:
- Fertilizers and ammonia
- Steel and iron
- Cement and clinker
- Aluminium / wider industrials
- 14:15 - 15:00
Commercial impact: pricing CBAM exposure, managing defaults and protecting margins
- How to calculate exposure under default values vs actual values
- When default-value costs distort trade economics
- How buyers are changing procurement decisions to avoid unverified or high-risk origins
- How to budget/accrue for CBAM exposure before final verified data are available
- How CBAM clauses are being added to supplier/customer contracts
- What information traders, importers and downstream customers need at transaction level
- 15:00 - 15:30
Certificates, liquidity and carbon-price risk: preparing for the financial mechanics of CBAM
- Quarterly security requirements and liquidity planning
- How CBAM certificate purchasing may work
- What companies need to budget for in 2026-28
- EUA price exposure, CBAM premiums and carbon-price forecasting
- Whether and how companies can hedge CBAM-related exposure
- Procurement strategies for certificates and internal governance
- 15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
- 16:00 - 16:45
Practical clinic: what information do I need from my supplier, trader, customs agent and verifier?
- What data do I need before importing?
- What should be checked on invoices, customs documentation and supplier declarations?
- What do I need to keep internally for audit purposes?
- What happens if my supplier cannot verify?
- How do I avoid buying too many/few certificates?
- 16:45 - 17:30
Panel discussion: CBAM outlook, policy evolution and market behaviour into 2027
- Will default values remain commercially decisive, or will verified actuals quickly become the norm?
- Which sectors are most likely to see trade-flow disruption?
- How will CBAM change supplier selection, contract negotiations and customer pricing?
- What should companies watch out for on EU/UK CBAM alignment and ETS interaction?
- What is the one practical action every attendee should take in the next 30 days?
- 17:30 - 17:45
Closing remarks: CBAM action plan
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Supporting resources
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