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.