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.

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.

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.

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.

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.