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Net Zero Strategies

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

Tutorial
211 C-D

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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3:30pm to 4:30pm
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Why and How to Lead on Climate Policy Advocacy

Case Study
211A-B

Many companies have climate goals, but far fewer advocate for the policies necessary to achieve them. This disconnect is dangerous, because the net-zero targets that are increasingly being set in the private sector can’t be met without supportive public policies. What’s more, companies face growing pressure from investors, employees and customers to put their lobbying muscle behind their public commitments on climate.

Join us to explore what’s driving corporate engagement in climate policy and what leadership looks like today. Our experts will discuss why climate policy advocacy is a strategic business imperative, how companies can engage effectively and what climate policies are top priorities in the coming year. You’ll come away with a framework for action, real-world examples and insight into how you can elevate climate as an advocacy priority within your company.

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  • Net Zero Strategies

Speakers

  • Victoria Mills
  • Artealia Gilliard
  • Kathryn Bacher

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Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Sponsored: Hit Your Climate Targets Through Execution Excellence

Breakout
LL21F, Convention Center

Whether your company is strengthening its climate goals or setting emissions reduction targets for the first time, a rock-solid plan for execution is central to success. This session will spotlight internal and operational factors that can enable – or derail – corporate climate ambitions. Subjects : collecting and managing the data that really matters, getting to “yes” with internal decision-makers, resourcing climate and clean energy projects, and finding the right expertise when you need it. Coho’s advisors will draw on their experience helping large organizations overcome obstacles on their journey from target-setting to ribbon-cutting.

This session is sponsored by Coho Climate Advisors. 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.

Tracks

  • Net Zero Strategies

Speakers

  • Walid Norris
  • Jordan Calverley
  • Charlie Barnett

Sponsors

Coho Climate Advisors

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What's the Right Approach to Measuring Scope 3 Emissions?

Panel
211 A-B

Spoiler: There is no right way. But there are multiple exciting solutions to this thorny problem.

Standard methods for estimating Scope 3 emissions are crude — so how can we do better? Leading service providers, sustainability professionals and independent experts will share details of the strategies and technologies they’re using to disentangle complex supply chains and extract higher-quality data on emissions. Learn how pioneering companies are tackling the Scope 3 challenge today and discover approaches that will lead to even more granular data in the future.

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  • Net Zero Strategies

Speakers

  • Julia Silberman
  • Maria Carolina Fujihara
  • Timothy Smith

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2:45pm to 3:45pm
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New Technologies and Strategies for Communicating Carbon Data to Consumers

Case Study
211A-B

What would happen if the carbon embodied in a laptop or a sofa or even a packet of chips were displayed on the product’s label?

Measuring embodied carbon is notoriously difficult, but supply chains are slowly becoming more transparent and consumer demand for environmental data is growing. These forces have prompted companies large and small to experiment with labels that detail the emissions created in the manufacture of a product. The big question now is how consumers will react.

This session will feature leaders behind some of these new experiments with carbon labels, who will share what we do and don’t know about the power of labels to impact consumer choice.

Tracks

  • Net Zero Strategies

Speakers

  • Adam Werbach
  • Francisco Benedito
  • Hana Kajimura
  • Nathan Sedlander

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What Will It Take to Make the Carbon Coin Real?

Panel
211C-D

Imagine a future in which countries and companies get paid for tackling climate change.

What would happen if the world’s central banks banded together to create a currency that organizations could earn by avoiding emissions or removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere? An imaginary version of such a currency, known as the carbon coin, plays a central role in Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson’s bestselling sci-fi novel in which humans achieve drawdown.

The coin may not be imaginary for much longer, however. The idea is based on a theoretical framework developed by Australian researcher Delton Chen, whose Global Carbon Reward (GCR) organization is now raising funds to support a real-world trial of the idea. Come to hear Robinson in conversation with Chen and other members of the GCR team as they discuss plans for the trial, the potential of carbon coin and key ideas from Ministry.

Tracks

  • Net Zero Strategies

Speakers

  • Delton Chen
  • Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Richard Schorske
  • Rich Deming
  • Kirstin Miller
  • Molly Wood

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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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Thursday, October 27th, 2022
9:00am to 10:00am
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Using Incentives, Technology and a Little Coercion to Help Suppliers Decarbonize

Case Study
211C-D

Scope 3 emissions often make up the largest single component of an organization’s carbon footprint — and are just as often the most difficult to reduce.

For many companies, emissions associated with raw materials, transport, product use and other Scope 3 categories are the most daunting obstacle on the journey to net zero. But innovative solutions are emerging as companies experiment with new ways of working with value-chain partners. You’ll hear from leaders who have created incentive programs for suppliers, technology solutions for managing the complexity of supply networks and legal agreements that require suppliers to cut emissions.

Tracks

  • Net Zero Strategies

Speakers

  • Sylvia Lee
  • George Earle
  • David Gessler
  • Valerie Touchon
  • Jim Giles

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1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Develop the Global Strategies Needed to Avert the Climate Crisis — in One Hour

Workshop
211C-D

Discover the trade-offs and synergies within different sets of climate strategies.

Global leaders have a multitude of levers they can pull to rein in climate change. But which combinations, from energy efficiency and carbon pricing to reduced deforestation and carbon dioxide removal, will keep global temperatures well below 2°C?

In this interactive workshop, the audience will work together to evaluate different approaches using the En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator. Co-developed by MIT, the simulator is based on the best available science and has been calibrated against a wide range of existing integrated assessment, climate and energy models. The aim is to create a scenario that limits global warming to well below 2°C and aims for 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, the international goals formally recognized in the Paris climate agreement.

Tracks

  • Net Zero Strategies

Speakers

  • Chris Page
  • Ram Appalaraju

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