This workshop aims to share practical, applicable and actionable insights to participants, including suitable approaches, methodologies and tools to account for scope 3 GHG emissions and work towards operational carbon neutrality.

Programme Outline

Duration	Programme	Speakers
5 mins	Introduction Relevance of climate resilience to businesses	Jeremy Phua, Audit & Assurance Partner, Deloitte; Deputy Chairman of Sustainability Excellence Sub-Committee under the ISCA Sustainability and Climate Change Committee
40 Mins	Presentation: Scope 3 GHG emissions accounting Practical steps (including an example) and tools to identify main sources of scope 3 GHG emissions and account for them Common challenges to measure and account for GHG emissions, particularly scope 3 GHG emissions, and practical solutions or stopgap measures How to manage the costs of scope 3 GHG emissions accounting How accountants can help Q&A	Alister James Stewart, Principal at Schneider Electric's Sustainability Business
40 mins	Presentation: Operational carbon neutrality Basic strategies around carbon neutrality Key first principles for the quality of carbon credits and RECs How to do it safely, e.g. not to use low-quality carbon credits which might give rise to reputational risk Case studies to illustrate key concepts	Wei Linyun, Vice President, Sustainability and Business Development, Singapore, Schneider Electric
15 mins	Break
80 mins	Panel discussion: Operational carbon neutrality with a view for net-zero eventually Governance and who is driving agenda internally What information or data is needed Expectations for accountants to contribute to operational carbon neutrality in the organisation Different approaches to drive decarbonisation strategies, including practical steps Use of technology/digitalisation, vendors, consultants, etc. to facilitate carbon neutrality Q&A	Jeremy Phua (Moderator) Dr Srikkanth Ramachandran, Manager, Sustainability & Climate Change, PwC Singapore Schneider Electric (TBC) Dr Thawatchai Maneerung, Global Sustainability Lead and Product Innovation Manager at TÜV SÜD End-user manufacturing company which are active in the decarbonisation space (TBC)

 

Intended For

This programme is suitable for finance and auditing professionals who already posses a basic understanding of carbon accounting (e.g. Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions accounting) and are interested to take on a bigger role to operationalise decarbonisation in their organisations

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