In the first of a series of webinars providing a guide to corporate offsetting, the focus was set on the role of carbon markets in reaching net zero emissions. Although this session is designed as a foundation for more advanced topics in the series, it nonetheless comprehensively covers:
TOPICS:
- The meaning of decarbonisation and net zero
- Scopes 1-3 in the context of carbon footprinting
- Introduction to compliance carbon markets and voluntary carbon markets
- Overview of the role played by standards, project developers, and exchanges in both markets
- Offsetting methodologies
- Permanence, additionality, and leakage
- Carbon credit issuances and retirement
- Different approaches to offsetting
Viewers also had a Q&A session with industry-leading speakers Mark Lewis and Karim Kanji.
