Sustainability and Carbon Startegy End-to-End Consulting Services
Navigating CBAM, Carbon Markets, Carbon Emission Allowances & Hedging Positions
A Comprehensive End-to-End Service Portfolio for Industry Leaders
MM Markets provides comprehensive support to companies navigating the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). Whether you are just beginning to understand CBAM requirements for EU exports or seeking to optimise your carbon strategy, we offer end-to-end solutions from compliance readiness assessments, official verification guidance, carbon credit trading strategies, to hedging solutions.
Our expert team helps businesses across the metals, materials, and mining sectors reduce their carbon costs, avoid reliance on default values, prepare for future CBAM expansions, and ensure full regulatory compliance throughout the EU phase-in period and beyond.
YOU ARE NEW TO CBAM
MM Markets will explain the EU compliance and reporting system to your management and prepare your team to collect and process relevant data.
- Readiness assessment against the CBAM Regulation (EU Regulation 2023/956 and all 8 implementing acts), identifycompliance gaps and prioritise remediation actions
- Assessment of products in scope of CBAM Regulation, including the collection of relevant CN codes including definition ofthe last sustainable transformation of the products
- Development of CBAM compliance roadmap, including declarant application and registration potentially via EU /establishment or representative(please note the timeframe of the application is up to 120 days)
- List of data required for CBAM liability and cost calculation
- Internal seminar to align your team with the reporting requirements
YOU UNDERSTAND CBAM BUT YOU DO NOT WANT TO RELY ON DEFAULT VALUES
MM Markets will assess the validity of the data collected and your draft calculations and carries out a mock-verification.
- Assessment of the declarant registration in place, products covered
- Data and CBAM liability and cost calculation assessmEnt for each product
- Gap analysis for the collected, available and additional data requirements
- CBAM cost calculation and data assessment documentation together with your team including potential mark ups
- Mock verification assessment using the principles of an EU recognised accreditation/verification body
YOU HAVE CALCULATED THE CBAM COST BUT REQUIRE OFFICIAL VERIFICATION
MM Markets will prepare you for the verification, find the right EU-recognized verification body and guide you during the verification and reporting timeline
- Mock verification assessment using the principles of an EU recognised accreditation/verification body
- Investigate the availability of EU recognised accreditation/verification bodies within your country
- Alternatively, we will use our contacts to the EU-based accreditation bodies to select the most suitable body for you
- Book your verification on time
- Guide your verification process, answer questions, provide additional data if required by the verification bodies
- Guide you with the declaration of the verified CBAM costs and delivering the verified emission data
YOU NEED TO IMPLEMENT SYSTEMS FOR REGULAR CBAM COST REPORTING
MM Markets will help your team automate quarterly and weekly CBAM reporting, set up and integrate management systems.
Five-Layer System Architecture
- Data Collection: Supplier emissions data, default values, benchmark data, ERP master data, API integrations
- Calculation Engine: Embedded emissions computation, benchmark alignment, default value adjustments, precursor tracking
- Compliance reporting: CBAM declarations, certificate calculations, regulatory submissions, audit trail management
- Financial integration: Carbon cost allocation, certificate accounting, budget forecasting, P&L impact modelling
- Analytics: predictive modelling, supplier optimisation, decarbonisation tracking, scenario analysis
YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND CARBON EMISSION ALLOWANCES AND CARBON CREDIT TRADING STRATEGIES
MM Markets will support you with framework design, verifier sourcing, pre-verification readiness, whether you need to purchase emission allowances or try to sell your carbon credits
- Overview of compliance carbon markets and voluntary carbon markets
- Assessment of your eligibility to generate carbon credits from operational improvements, recycling initiatives,or land-use projects
- Monitoring, Reporting & Verification (MRV) framework design aligned with the chosen registry methodology
- Trading strategy development: timing, instruments and market-entry approach to optimise net carbon cost
- Broker and trading platforms shortlisting
YOU NEED HELP WITH REDUCING YOUR CBAM COSTS AND CONSIDER POTENTIAL CBAM EXTENSIONS
MM Markets will support you to decarbonise your operations considering potential CBAM expansions
- Guidance on Scope 2 electricity decarbonisation and green tariff structuring
- Strategic advisory on process efficiency and fuel switching abatement to explore limits to operational improvements
- Development of supply chain data collection programmes which will structure your engagement with upstream fuel and raw material suppliers
- Review and redesign of contract and pricing architecture to restructure long-term procurement and supply contracts
- Regulatory horizon scanning and scenario planning
YOU WANT TO HEDGE YOUR CBAM EXPOSURE
MM Markets will help to find the right hedging option and suggest providers able to offer you the contracts
- Comparative analysis of hedging instruments: EUA futures and options, forward purchase agreements with EU importers,and contractual cost-pass-through clauses
- Strategy selection aligned with your risk tolerance, volume profile and exposure horizon
- Counterparty identification: brokers, trading houses, banks and specialist CBAM contract providers
- Position-monitoring framework and rebalancing recommendations as the EU phase-in progresses
YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT ADDITIONAL RELEVANT REGULATIONS
MM Markets will provide you with a customised list of EU and other regulations relevant to your business and advise you about their impact
- EU CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive),
- EU CSDDD (Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive),
- Conflict Minerals Regulation
- EU Batteries Regulation
- EUDR (Deforestation Regulation)
- EU trade defence instruments including EU steel (current and proposed) and aluminium (in discussion)
safeguarding measures - EU Taxonomy
- GCC sustainability frameworks (Saudi Green Initiative, UAE Net Zero 2050, and regional ESG reporting frameworks)
OUR EXPERT TEAM
Krisztina Kalman
Metals and Decarbonisation Expert
- Krisztina has been advising the Metals and Materials sector on commercial and organisational topicsfor over 20 years. She has carried outseveral ESG benchmarking investigations, implemented KPIs sytems, and she is an expert in recycling and recycled content management.
Olga Kotina
Risk and hedging Expert
- Olga has over 20 years of risk management experience across industrial and commodity-trading groups. Her expertise spans governance, compliance and riskmanagement frameworks, riskexposures management.
Burag Gürden
ESG Compliance Expert
- Burag has 8 years of experience building regulatory-ready supply chain programs. He is an expert in CBAM, CSRD, CSDDD and responsible sourcing. He helped companies design auditable governance frameworks, manage third-party risks and translate complex standards into operating procedures.
