HILT CRC short course: Policy Levers & Market Frameworks – Adelaide
February 17, 2026 @ 9:00 am - February 18, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
HILT CRC short course: Policy Levers & Market Frameworks
This two-day course is designed for industry professionals seeking to understand and engage with the policy frameworks, certification schemes and market instruments enabling the low-carbon transition in heavy industry sectors.
Participants will explore how industrial decarbonisation can be accelerated through industrial policies, Guarantee of Origin (GO) schemes, Embedded Emissions Frameworks (EEFs), demand-pull and supply-push instruments, and system design considerations for emissions transparency and accountability.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- identify key policy instruments and frameworks enabling industrial decarbonisation
- understand how GO schemes and EEFs contribute to emissions transparency
- demonstrate understanding of policy drivers and align industry’s decarbonisation strategies with emerging regulatory and market signals
- navigate interoperability challenges and recommend harmonisation strategies.
Presented by Australian National University (ANU) and HILT CRC experts Associate Professor Emma Aisbett and Dr Hina Aslam, the course will cover the following modules (all presentations will be followed by interactive discussions and activities):
- Introduction to the Australian policy environment
- Interactions between trade and investment policy and climate policy
- Introduction to Embedded Emissions Frameworks
- Deep dive into Embedded Emissions Frameworks.
REGISTRATION: This course is free for HILT CRC Partners* and open to the public for $250 (inclusive of lunch on both days and networking drinks on day 1).
COURSE DETAILS
DAY 1
Module 1: Introduction to the Australian policy environment (Emma Aisbett)
Introduction to, and economic framing of, green industrial policies, including an overview of the current Australian policy environment for heavy industry
Module 2: Interactions between trade and investment policy and climate policy
Overview of the interactions between trade & investment policy and climate policy. It will cover trade-related climate policies, including carbon border adjustments, as well as approaches to international collaboration to better integrate the trade and climate regimes
Lunch
Module 3: Introduction to Embedded Emissions Frameworks
In-depth introduction to EEFs, unpacking key definitions, the diversity of public and private initiatives, trade-related climate policies and global regime interactions. It draws on current HILT research to illustrate practical applications and challenges in emissions accounting across sectors.
Networking drinks
DAY 2
Module 4: Deep dive into Embedded Emissions Frameworks
Explores public EEFs with a focus on interoperability, including the Australian GO scheme, and addresses system boundaries, data alignment and challenges around diverse accounting methodologies.
Lunch & wrap-up
presenters
Associate Professor Emma Aisbett, ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy
Emma Aisbett is an economist and policy scholar at the ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy. She is a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts and a Judge of the Australian Eureka Prize for Sustainability Research. Emma leads projects on embedded-emissions accounting to support net-zero trade, and has produced influential reports for WWF-Australia, the Asian Development Bank and Aus-Germany HySupply. Her current research centres on trade-related climate policy and international green industrial policy, with emphasis on embedded emissions accounting frameworks, certification, market activation and international green-economy collaborations.
Emma also leads HILT CRC Project RP3.006 Certification and verification to enable a successful low-carbon transition for heavy industry.
Dr Hina Aslam, ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy
Hina Aslam is a Fellow/Senior Lecturer at the ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy. She is research lead for projects around embedded emissions accounting frameworks, including HILT CRC Project RP3.006. Hina joined ANU as an Andre Hoffmann Fellow in 2022, focusing on circular economy policy. She has a strong background in environmental studies and energy and climate policy, with a PhD in Ecology from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, and a Master’s in Environmental Engineering and Sciences from Beijing Institute of Technology.
