World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and its member companies, in collaboration with Carbone4 and its Net Zero Initiative and released the “Guidance on Avoided Emissions: Helping business drive innovations and scale solutions toward Net Zero”.
Leading global companies, academia and technical experts came together to develop a shared vision of how “Avoided Emissions” could be calculated and leveraged not only by companies but also by financial institutions and governments in their ambition to support and drive climate-aligned decision-making, innovation and purpose definition.
The five key areas to making credible avoided emissions claims covered in this guidance include:
Defining avoided emissions
Leveraging avoided emissions
Ensuring the contribution is legitimate
Assessing avoided emissions
Reporting avoided emissions
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and its member companies, in collaboration with Carbone4 and its Net Zero Initiative and released the “Guidance on Avoided Emissions: Helping business drive innovations and scale solutions toward Net Zero”.
Leading global companies, academia and technical experts came together to develop a shared vision of how “Avoided Emissions” could be calculated and leveraged not only by companies but also by financial institutions and governments in their ambition to support and drive climate-aligned decision-making, innovation and purpose definition.
The five key areas to making credible avoided emissions claims covered in this guidance include:
Defining avoided emissions
Leveraging avoided emissions
Ensuring the contribution is legitimate
Assessing avoided emissions
Reporting avoided emissions
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Guidance on Avoided Emissions: Helping business drive innovations and scale solutions towards Net Zero