Episode 19: How to Confidently Buy High-integrity Carbon Offsets

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“It doesn’t make sense to go carbon neutral and purchase carbon offsets that might be dodgy. The purpose of achieving carbon neutrality is that you want to prove to the marketplace that you care about the environment and that you are taking a stand against climate change. You don’t want to open yourself up to reputational damage. “

In this special episode of “Driving Profit with Net Zero emissions” podcast, we're revisiting a recent webinar that we hosted in collaboration with TEM (Tasman Environmental Markets) — "How to confidently buy high-integrity carbon offsets."

The webinar breaks down the intricacies of carbon offsetting and provide a clear pathway for strategic carbon credit purchasing.

In this episode, Barbara Albert and Nicolas Francois were joined by our guest speakers from TEM, Brett Giddings (Head of Digital Solutions), and Rebecca Heard (Manager of Corporate Partnerships and Digital Solutions).
In this episode, we cover:

• Understanding carbon offsetting: The basics and importance in today's sustainability landscape.
• Criteria for high-quality offsets: Identifying and selecting the most credible offsets.
• Climate Active certification: How offsets play a key role in achieving voluntary carbon neutral certification.
• Navigating greenwashing and greenhushing: Ensuring your organisation's practices are transparent and trustworthy.
• The offset market: Insights into market trends
• Risk management: Strategies to secure high-quality offsets and safeguard your organisation's reputation.

Meet the host

Barbara Albert is the Co-CEO of 100% Renewables. She is passionate about business and works to make organisations’ transition to net-zero emissions simpler and profitable. Barbara is the award-winning author of ‘Energy Unlimited – Four Steps to 100% Renewable Energy‘, one of the world’s most important books on renewable energy, as ranked by peers and experts in the industry.

Connect with Barbara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraalbert100/

Connect with 100% Renewables:

• Visit our YouTube channel for lots of Net Zero explainer videos: Driving Net Profit with Zero Emissions
• Visit our website: www.100percentrenewables.com
• Follow us on LinkedIn: 100% Renewables
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• Follow us on Twitter: @100pcRenewables

Get in touch with the speakers:

• Nicolas’s LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-s-francois/
• Brett’s LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettgiddings/
• Rebecca’s LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccataylor24/

Capitole

1. Episode 19: How to Confidently Buy High-integrity Carbon Offsets (00:00:00)

2. Introduction (00:00:22)

3. Webinar overview (00:01:54)

4. About 100% Renewables (00:02:57)

5. About TEM (00:04:09)

6. A few figures on carbon offsets (00:06:13)

7. Background information on carbon offsets (00:09:06)

8. Decarbonisation/carbon neutral/ net-zero strategy (00:10:13)

9. How to identify high-integrity offsets (00:14:13)

10. Typical certification process by offset standards (00:25:13)

11. Allowable offsets under Climate Active (00:26:43)

12. Due-diligence framework (00:27:15)

13. Due-diligence in action (00:30:29)

14. Greenwashing risks (00:34:45)

15. Impact messaging (00:44:27)

16. Purchasing offsets (00:46:05)

17. Carbon market demand outlook (00:46:34)

18. How to manage cost and supply risks (00:47:42)

19. Case study: Lion (00:49:19)

20. Q&A (00:51:22)

21. Key takeaways (00:58:12)

22. Closing (00:58:52)