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Nature-based solutions

Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
9:00am to 12:00pm
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How to Buy High Quality Carbon Removal Credits

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Do you have a budget for carbon removal? We have experts on hand to help you figure out how to spend it.

There are good reasons why carbon removal credits are a small but fast-growing component of carbon markets. For one thing, the IPCC has said that we can’t limit global warming to 1.5C without scaling removal technologies. Some removal projects also offer a higher likelihood of climate impact than other carbon credits.

Yet the nascent market for removals can be difficult for even experts to navigate. In this interactive tutorial, the team from CarbonPlan will walk you through the science behind carbon removal, the types of credits available today and the questions you need to ask to ensure that your spending delivers maximum climate benefits.

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  • Carbon capture and sequestration
  • Carbon markets
  • Nature-based solutions
  • Net Zero Strategies

Speakers

  • Danny Cullenward
  • Freya Chay
  • Sadie Frank
  • Jeremy Freeman

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Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
9:00am to 10:00am
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Building a Long-Term Plan for Buying Carbon Credits

Case Study
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By 2030, the cost of offsetting a ton of carbon could rise fivefold, according to a study released by BloombergNEF earlier this year. Yet in that very same report, the authors looked at another scenario and predicted a hundred-fold increase.

With variability on that scale, how can buyers plan for the future? There’s no single answer, but a handful of companies are already enacting long-term plans for navigating carbon markets. You’ll get a deep dive into the plans of two of those companies and learn how you can use a long-term approach to hedge against price volatility, secure the highest-quality credits and spur innovation in nascent but powerful carbon solutions.

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  • Carbon capture and sequestration
  • Carbon markets
  • Nature-based solutions

Speakers

  • Patrick Flynn
  • Rafael Broze
  • Stephanie Harris

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1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Sponsored: Building the LEAF Coalition, the World’s Largest Public-Private Partnership to End Deforestation

Breakout
210E, Convention Center

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will not be possible without all but halting tropical deforestation by 2030. The LEAF Coalition is the world’s largest public-private collaboration dedicated to making this happen. Launched in 2021, it has already mobilized over $1 billion from corporations and governments to protect tropical forests. This panel, chaired by GreenBiz Group co-founder Joel Makower and featuring LEAF corporations and sovereign donors will look at how joining LEAF can help corporations take a high-ambition pathway to net zero, while supporting forest preservation and sustainable development for forest nations.

This session is sponsored by LEAF Coalition. Sponsored breakouts are sponsor-created and hosted breakouts, created independently by the sponsor without input from GreenBiz. Please note that attendee contact information will be shared with the sponsoring company.

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  • Carbon markets
  • Nature-based solutions

Speakers

  • Joel Makower
  • Maggie Charnley
  • Mark Moroge
  • Patrick Flynn
  • Allan Traicoff

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LEAF Coalition

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4:15pm to 5:15pm
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A New Approach to Reducing Scope 3: Landscape-Level Investing

Case Study
211C-D

Investing in value-chain communities across a jurisdiction can produce multiple benefits.

Carbon credits can be a powerful tool for reducing emissions, but the approach has inherent limitations. Many credits focus solely on carbon, when a more holistic strategy would consider benefits to local communities and ecosystems. Investing in credits that originate outside of an organization’s value chain can also miss opportunities to tackle what’s often the most challenging component of a company’s carbon footprint: Scope 3 emissions.

This session will explore landscape-level investing, an innovative alternative to conventional carbon markets. Pioneers of the approach will explain how companies can fund projects within their supplysheds that deliver broad-ranging goals — from biodiversity and food security to improved health and gender equality — as well as reductions in Scope 3 emissions.

Tracks

  • Carbon markets
  • Nature-based solutions
  • Net Zero Strategies

Speakers

  • Felicity Spors
  • Steven Rosenzweig
  • Allison Bain
  • Jay Watson

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