Global Launch of Guide to Assess and Support Solution Providers @ COP27

Here is the link to the guide... All feedback is most welcome!

Video of the event here

Today 17th November during the solution day here at COP27 the Guide to Assess and Support Solution Providers?was launched.

This launch was planned since last COP, but the timing was perfect as Japan announced that they will push Avoided Emissions and companies as solution providers at the G7 summit in April 2023 and WBCSD provided a sneak peek at the guidance on avoided emissions that they will release Q1 2023…. In addition to these anther four-six tools and initiatives with focus on avoided emission will be released in the coming months. Please let us know if there are anything you think the guide is missing something.

I’m very happy that 2023 looks like a breakthrough year for avoided emissions!

For the launch of the Solution Guide, we managed to gather the leading experts around the world.

The event started with an overview of the guide that launched with 17 tools/initiatives, that together have assessed more than 6?400 solution providers with a combined potential of more than 118 Gigatonnes of avoided CO2e. The work by us in Mission Innovation have contributed directly to about 1000 solution providers and several frameworks that stakeholders can use.

After the introduction to the guide a message from Sarah Kearney and Keri Browder , from Prime coalition was delivered together with a short movie. They focus on start-ups and investors and told us that CRANE currently has 3,200 users across approximately 1,500 organizations.

Bram van der Grinten from Impact Forcast, followed up and told us about Impact Forecast and how they work to help assess and also improve the positive impact from start-ups.

CRANE and Impact Forecast are two complementary approaches that both respond to need for assessments of avoided emissions, but in different ways.

Antoine Crépel , from Carbon4, than provided an overview of their Net-Zero approach that helps companies that focus on Scope 1-3 reporting to add avoided emissions to their thinking.

Tomoki Ooka, deputy director at Global Environmental Affairs Office, who attended together with his colleague Saki Oura, Section Chief, presented the ideas behind Japan’s focus on Avoided emissions. He highlighted both the need to allow companies to be innovation driven as solution providers and the need to also support the financial sector in moving towards support for solution providers.

Gabriela Herculano from iClima Earth followed up with a perspective from the financial sector and how avoided emission can help identify different kinds of solution providers.

Luis Neves from Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) / Digital with Purpose provided an overview of the importance to be ambitious and act with urgency. He also highlighted the need to move forward now with the opportunities that digitalization provides.

Marco Duso , partner at BCG, provided an overview of how they approach companies as solution providers and how fast many of the next generation of solution providers are growing.

Dr. Alexander Nick ended the session by explain the logic behind and structure of the upcoming guidance for avoided emission that WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development will publish during Q1 2023. This work will most certainly contribute to the mainstreaming of avoided emissions as a concept in the business community. Alex and the rest of the team at WBCSD who have made this possible, especially John Revess, Diane Buzea and Cecilia Valeri, have done a great job.

A fantastic session and thanks for everyone who made this possible, especially Jakob Dahlqvist and Jay Hennessy how both have been key in developed the content for the guide and also helped shape the strategy over the years. Thanks also to Andreas Johansson , Marco Lucisano , Claudia Nilsson , Clara Wickman , Johan Torén , Marcus Linder , Josefina Sallén , Dag Sj?holm , Magnus Eriksson , Markus Norstr?m , and everyone else in RISE who made this happen.

Thanks also to UNFCCC, Massamba Thioye , Carlos Ruiz-Garvia , Sylvia Otieno , PANNA SIYAG who have supported to work. Also the team at the Swedish Energy Agency, both now any earlier. Robert Andrén , Niclas Carlsson, Andreas Stubelius , Ann-Sofi Gaverstedt , Jenny Radkova , Sasan Shaba , Paul Westin , Sandra Idesk?r ?

https://climate-solution-guide.misolutionframework.net/

PS

This was the session during this COP where I received most LinkedIn requests and follow-up emails, something that I think reflects the significant interest in this area.