Presenter: Arij van Berkel, Ph.D., SVP & Group Director at Lux Research
Arij is a Senior Vice President at Lux and leads the energy research team. Arij and his team provide strategic insights in the rapidly changing landscape of energy supply to mobility, residences, and industry
Prior to joining Lux Research, Arij worked for Shell and TNO, the public research and technology organization of The Netherlands. At Shell, he conducted research into process safety and combustion. At TNO he worked on a variety of topics including food preservation, emission reduction and biomass conversion. His last position there was innovation director for the chemical industry, P&L responsible for TNO’s entire project portfolio for the chemical industry and liaising with the Dutch and EU governments on innovation policy.
Arij holds an M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from Twente University and a Ph.D. from Eindhoven University.
Lux Research introduced a model to analyze industrial decarbonization measures during our annual meeting in 2021. We differentiated between three approaches to decarbonization:
- Makeshift: measures that reduce climate impact with minimal changes
- Retrofit: measures that preserve most of your assets yet require substantial investments
- Transformational: completely new approaches to your product, business, or market
One makeshift measure that has attracted much attention lately is the production or acquisition of “carbon credits.” Using carbon credits, companies can reduce their carbon footprint through investments elsewhere, outside of their assets or even their value chain. However, many observers and experts on decarbonization criticize carbon credits as greenwashing. Even if you can show that the carbon credits do make a difference for climate change, your company still assumes a long-term responsibility for the carbon underlying the credits. That may be particularly troublesome if the carbon credits were created through high-emission activities outside your usual business.
In this webinar, we look at the different kinds of carbon credits, how they are manufactured and traded, and most importantly how you can decide whether and how to use carbon credits as part of your net-zero corporate roadmap.
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Greenwashing, or Profitable Corporate Social Responsibility? Making Strategic Sense of Carbon Credits
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Lux Research introduced a model to analyze industrial decarbonization measures during our annual meeting in 2021. We differentiated between three approaches to decarbonization:
- Makeshift: measures that reduce climate impact with minimal changes
- Retrofit: measures that preserve most of your assets yet require substantial investments
- Transformational: completely new approaches to your product, business, or market
One makeshift measure that has attracted much attention lately is the production or acquisition of “carbon credits.” Using carbon credits, companies can reduce their carbon footprint through investments elsewhere, outside of their assets or even their value chain. However, many observers and experts on decarbonization criticize carbon credits as greenwashing. Even if you can show that the carbon credits do make a difference for climate change, your company still assumes a long-term responsibility for the carbon underlying the credits. That may be particularly troublesome if the carbon credits were created through high-emission activities outside your usual business.
In this webinar, we look at the different kinds of carbon credits, how they are manufactured and traded, and most importantly how you can decide whether and how to use carbon credits as part of your net-zero corporate roadmap.
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On-Demand Webinar
Greenwashing, or Profitable Corporate Social Responsibility? Making Strategic Sense of Carbon Credits
By:
Chief Product Officer