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The people running carbon programs share a problem: there's nowhere to compare notes with peers facing the same challenges. The choices at climate weeks are often panels, sales pitches, or polite chats at happy hour. The questions that actually matter — how do you defend your price-per-tonne, which SAF claims hold up under scrutiny, what accounting treatment of RECs and EACs your auditor will actually accept — don't always get tackled. That's what Rebalance in Action is built for. Our speakers and workshop leaders are experts in answering those questions. Randy Spock, Carbon Credits and Removals Lead, Google Fredrik E., Sustainability Project Manager, Siemens Energy and more to be announced soon. Hosted during London Climate Action Week on June 24, it's a closed-door, hands-on workshop for sustainability leaders who own the operational delivery of climate commitments. You'll work through real cases on SAF, RECs and EACs, and carbon credits and removals. You'll stress-test claims and accounting choices with peers facing the same decisions. You'll trade hard-won lessons and leave with next steps you can act on right away. If you're attending Rebalance on June 22, this is the operational counterpart. If not, it stands on its own. Apply → https://lnkd.in/gbMk55iS

Smruti Naik-Jones will be speaking at Rebalance, our London Climate Action Week summit for senior sustainability leaders at the enterprise level. Corporate climate action takes on many different forms depending on the industry and positioning of the company, so having a cross-sectional view matters a lot. There's no one better to bring that perspective. Don't miss this event — apply here: https://lnkd.in/gU52REhm

If you had access to data on 27,000 projects in the voluntary carbon market, what would you want to know first? Over the last month, as our partners have brought us new challenges and new opportunities, I've had the chance to explore data questions I hadn't gotten to before. Our platform is what makes this kind of exploration possible — zooming out across tens of thousands of projects and then zooming in on the specific signals that matter for a given client. The emerging theme across most of these questions is anticipation: how do we see what's coming a step earlier than the rest of the market? Two examples have stuck with me. The first has to do with one of the key data points buyers have been increasingly using as an integrity signal: ICVCM's Core Carbon Principles label. It's typically viewed as a project-level filter. If it's CCP labeled, it's in. If not, it's out. Given some carbon credit pathways don't yet have sufficient CCP-labeled supply to meet demand, I've started asking a slightly different question of the data over the last few weeks. Instead of just looking at already-labeled issuances, I've been looking into which project methodologies are currently in the CCP review process. When a methodology has its CCP review board meeting on the calendar and looks likely to be accepted, credits issued under it have a good chance of soon becoming CCP-labeled. By monitoring for those early signals, we can help our partners secure quality volumes just as the label arrives and before the market reprices around it. The second example is around delivery risk. With 27,000 projects and a deep well of historical data, we can start to correlate the project-level changes (rating shifts, pricing movement, increased scrutiny, etc.) that tend to precede a delivery delay or default. The goal is to spot the warning signs before they become shortfalls. Our dataset has always been deep, and it's exciting to see how AI has enabled faster, more nuanced analysis across tens of thousands of projects. Research questions that used to take weeks to explore can now be tackled in an afternoon; (un)fortunately, the questions worth asking are multiplying even faster than we can answer them. We still can't do it all, but we're starting to do so much more. So, if you had access to data on 27,000 carbon credit projects, what questions would you start exploring?

"The supply you'll need in 2030 is being priced right now."

Rebalance is already looking like THE definitive event at LCAW for enterprise sustainability leaders. Don't miss your chance to reserve your spot!

If you lead sustainability at a major company, Rebalance will be the can't miss event of London Climate Action Week. Here's the speaker list, with more to be added soon: Sophie Graham, Chief Sustainability Officer, IFS Jessica Hyman, Chief Sustainability Officer, Atlassian Dr James Robey, EVP, Global Head of Environmental Sustainability, Capgemini Lyndsay Harris Kyei, VP of Global Impact & Sustainability, ServiceNow Jaycee Pribulsky, Partner, Chief Sustainability Officer, Apollo Global Management, Inc. Andrew Walton, Chief Sustainability Officer 
& Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Lloyds Banking Group Don't miss your chance to register: https://lnkd.in/gU52REhm