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 - 09:30
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?
- 09:30 - 10:10
CBAM 2027 readiness: what has changed, what is still uncertain and what companies must prepare for now?
- Latest EU CBAM regulatory timeline, scope developments and expected clarity by late 2026
- Anti-circumvention measures, simplification proposals, Article 27a/suspension clause uncertainty and implications of the EU ETS 2026 reform
- What importers, producers and declarants should treat as “known enough” to act on now
Speaker:
Dylan Gereats
CounselMayer Brown- 10:00 - 10:30
Preparing for CBAM verification: regulatory requirements, practical guidance and economic implications
- Clarifying CBAM verification requirements, verification chains and stakeholder responsibilities, including what monitoring systems must capture
- Building audit-ready monitoring plans across product and installation boundaries, emissions sources, supplier evidence and traceable documentation
- Practical case study: showcasing the CBAM cost impact of verified actual data versus default values
Speaker:
Gabriel Rozenberg
CEO & Co-FounderCBAMBOO- 10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
- 11:00 - 11:40
Verification in practice: what happens before, during and after verification?
- Who can verify CBAM emissions data, what accreditation means and when accredited verifiers and first audits are expected
- What verifiers will assess in monitoring plans, emissions data, supplier evidence and documentation formats
- How non-EU producers, importers and wider verification chains should prepare when data are incomplete, late or commercially sensitive
- 11:40 - 12:30
Sector breakout roundtables: where CBAM costs and verification risk are showing up first
Roundtable options:
- Fertilizers and ammonia - led by Claudia Wlk, Editor – Europe Fertilizer, Argus
- Steel and iron
- Cement and clinker
- Aluminium / wider industrials
Roundtable leaders include:
Claudia Wlk
Editor, FertilizersArgus
Networking lunch
- 12:30 - 13:30
Networking lunch
Afternoon sessions
- 13:30 - 14:15
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
- 15:00 - 15:30
Assessing and actively managing CBAM risks and costs as an importer: Supplier contracts and certificate management strategy
- Assessing CBAM exposure and segmenting suppliers by risk
- Using CBAM contract clauses to align incentives between producers and importers
- Rule-based CBAM certificate management, liquidity planning and cost optimisation
- Case study: Managing CBAM costs through supplier engagement and certificate strategy
Speaker:
Hendrik Schuldt
Managing Directorcarboneer GmbH- 15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
- 16:00 - 16:30
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
- 16:30 - 17:00
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
Speaker:
Marcel Duits
CEODubrink- 17:00 - 17:30
Practical clinic: what information do I need from my supplier, trader, customs agent and verifier?
- 17:30 - 17:35
Closing remarks: CBAM action plan
Speakers in 2026 include:
Supporting resources
On-demand webinar
EU CBAM: scheme, implementation, market impact.
In this webinar we cover the basics for the scheme and look at CBAM's impact on the EU ETS market and other affect sectors.
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Antitrust compliance reminder
Argus takes compliance with antitrust law seriously. The purpose of the Argus CBAM Training Day is to help market participants understand the major issues shaping the market. The conference sessions will follow the agenda as circulated.
Argus reminds all participants of the need to be mindful of the requirement to comply with antitrust and competition laws. There should be no discussion of any matters relating to competition among participants, including discussion of individual prices, rates or market strategies and no exchange of information concerning any other competitive aspect of an individual company’s operation. Should any participant to this conference attempt to initiate a discussion with other participants on any of these matters, we recommend that other participants end the conversation immediately and at all times act in accordance with their own antitrust compliance policies and all applicable laws.
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