Event
What does CO₂ reduction really cost?
Puncture assumptions, find opportunities and make credible choices. CO₂ reduction is often seen as expensive and complex. Or as something you can only seriously get started with once your data is fully in order. But is that actually true?
Future Up’s ESG Days bring together professionals, experts and organisations around the most important issues in the field of sustainability and ESG. The programme focuses on knowledge sharing, practical experience and encounters: from current developments and new insights to concrete solutions that help organisations translate sustainability into daily practice.
The theme ‘Building Tomorrow’s Business’ revolves around the question of how organisations can make the choices today that contribute to a future-proof economy. Salacia, Nexio Project and Rabo Carbon Bank are organizing one of the break-out sessions.
Break-out session
What does CO₂ reduction really cost? Where are the biggest opportunities? And how do you decide which measures to take first?
During this interactive break-out session, Nexio Projects, Salacia Solutions and Rabo Carbon Bank will take you from emission data to concrete action. We challenge common assumptions about CO₂ reduction and investigate how organizations can make effective and credible choices within Scope 1, 2 and 3.
Using myths, practical examples and interaction with participants, we look at data quality and emission hotspots and what comes next. Which reduction measures actually have an impact? What do they cost, and what do they yield? Which opportunities are often overlooked? And how do you get suppliers and other chain partners on board when a large part of your emissions take place outside your own organization?
We also look at the question of what you do with emissions that you cannot yet reduce and what role carbon credits can play responsibly in this.
From CO₂ footprint to concrete choices
Many organizations now have a reasonable overview of their Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. This creates a new challenge: how do you translate that data into concrete reduction, investment decisions and effective management?
During the session, we connect three perspectives:
- Measure & Control – Salacia Solutions
How do you gain sufficient insight into your emissions to recognize hotspots, set priorities and structurally monitor progress? Not perfect data, but useful data for better decision-making is central. - Reduce – Nexio Projects
Where are the actual promising reduction measures? How to assess measures on impact, costs and feasibility and how do you translate climate ambitions into a practical reduction plan? - Residual emissions & carbon markets– Rabo Carbon Bank
What do you do with emissions that you cannot yet reduce? When can carbon credits play a credible role and what should you pay attention to as an organisation when making choices within the voluntary carbon market?
Together, we map out the entire route: measuring, prioritizing, reducing and dealing responsibly with residual emissions.
What will you get out of this session?
After this break-out, you will have a clearer picture of where your organization stands and which next step makes sense. You will receive practical tools to:
- use emission data to identify reduction opportunities;
- distinguish between relevant insights and false precision;
- weighing up reduction measures in terms of impact, costs and feasibility;
- Include scope 3 and suppliers in your climate strategy;
- to deal credibly with emissions that cannot yet be reduced.
You will go home with a clearer answer to four questions: what should we measure, what should we prioritise, what can we reduce and what is our next step?
For whom?
This break-out is intended for professionals who are involved in climate strategy and its translation into daily business operations. These include ESG and sustainability managers, ESG data analysts, CSRD working groups, finance, control and reporting professionals, C-level executives and procurement professionals.
The session is particularly relevant when your organization already has a reasonable picture of its own CO₂ footprint and is now facing the following question: How do we translate our emission data into concrete reduction, investment decisions and effective management?
About the speakers
Marc Roodhuyzen de Vries – Nexio Projects
Marc Roodhuyzen de Vries is Co-CEO and co-founder of Nexio Projects, an international sustainability consultancy that helps organizations embed sustainability in their core business. He helps organizations translate ESG issues and climate ambitions into practical strategies, decisions and measurable results.
Kees Kerstens – Salacia Solutions
Kees Kerstens is co-founder of Salacia Solutions. His ambition is to make ESG monitoring and reporting as natural as financial reporting for companies and investors. As an experienced entrepreneur, he focuses on measuring and managing environmental impact and the circular economy, among other things.
Leon Boerop – Rabo Carbon Bank
Leon Boerop leads Rabo Carbon Bank and has been active in the carbon markets for five years now. Prior to that, he worked in marketing roles for technology companies and in offshore wind project finance.
Christian Penning – Salacia Solutions
Christian Penning is Community Manager at Salacia Solutions and works with organizations to make sustainability data accessible and applicable, so that sustainability ambitions can be translated into concrete management and action. Connecting people, knowledge sharing and peer-to-peer learning are central to this.
About the organizations
Nexio Projects is an international sustainability consultancy that supports organizations on ESG issues, climate strategies and sustainability reporting, with a strong focus on practical and result-oriented solutions.
Salacia Solutions helps companies and investors make their sustainability impact transparent and manageable with automated ESG monitoring and reporting.
Rabo Carbon Bank is active as a developer, broker and financier of voluntary carbon credits. The team has experience with projects in Brazil, New Zealand and the Netherlands, among others, and supports organizations in the procurement of high-quality voluntary carbon credits.
Future Up brings together companies and professionals who are working on the transition to a future-proof economy. With communities, events and programs, Future Up creates a place where organizations exchange knowledge and experiences, enter into new collaborations and work together on current sustainability and ESG issues.
What can you expect?
A future-proof company must not only know what its climate impact is, but above all understand where it can actually make a difference. This requires insight into the largest emission sources and reduction opportunities, a realistic assessment of costs and benefits and embedding climate action in investments, procurement and daily decision-making.
This session will show how organizations can make the step from climate ambition and CO₂ data to concrete choices that contribute to lower emissions, more efficient operations, greater resilience and long-term value.
Would you like to be there during the ESG Days on 3 November and participate in our break-out ‘What does CO₂ reduction really cost?’? Register for the event. When registering, use the discount code Salacia26 for a discount on your ticket. We look forward to seeing you at the ESG Days!
