A net zero strategy is a costed, financed, sequenced plan to reduce emissions in line with a 1.5°C trajectory and neutralise only the small residual that remains. The difference between a pledge and a strategy is concrete: a marginal abatement cost curve, a capital plan, delivery governance and milestones that survive contact with the CFO.
Why Net Zero matters now.
A public target with no funded pathway is now a liability with a date on it — visible to investors, scored by customers, and increasingly subject to transition-plan disclosure rules that ask precisely how you intend to get there.
What it changes commercially.
A funded pathway changes the economics of the commitment: cash-positive levers harvested first, capital timed to asset replacement, energy-cost exposure hedged, financing accessed on sustainability-linked terms, and a transition plan that satisfies CSRD/IFRS S2 while actually directing capital rather than decorating the annual report.
The standards we build to.
How the engagement runs.
- 01 — Baseline & hotspotsWhere emissions and abatement potential actually sit.
- 02 — Model the curveMarginal abatement cost across every viable lever, ranked and sequenced.
- 03 — Fund the planCapex, savings and financing assembled into a board-grade business case.
- 04 — Govern deliveryOwners, milestones, review cadence — and a disclosure-ready transition plan.
What you take away.
- Decarbonization roadmapSequenced levers across operations and value chain, with owners and dates.
- Marginal abatement cost curveEvery viable lever costed and ranked against your hurdle rate.
- Capital & financing planCapex quantified, financing identified — including green and sustainability-linked instruments.
- Residual & removals strategyA defensible approach to the last ~10%, aligned to SBTi rules.
- Transition plan disclosureThe plan in the format CSRD and IFRS S2 increasingly expect.
What success looks like.
- A costed, sequenced, funded decarbonization roadmap
- First milestones delivered inside 24 months
- Energy and carbon cost exposure structurally reduced
- A transition plan that satisfies disclosure and directs capital
Industries that use this most.
a substantial share of early abatement levers — efficiency, electrification, renewables — are cash-positive at current energy prices.
Net Zero: the questions buyers ask first.
Carbon neutral typically means offsetting current emissions with credits — no reduction required. Net zero under the SBTi standard means reducing absolute emissions ~90% on a science-aligned pathway and neutralising only the residual with permanent removals. Regulators and customers increasingly treat the distinction as the line between strategy and greenwash.
Less than boards assume, sequenced properly. The marginal abatement cost curve is the honest answer: many early levers are NPV-positive (efficiency, electrification, renewable procurement), and their savings part-fund the harder, later levers. The expensive strategy is the unsequenced one.
Near-term science-aligned targets imply roughly 4.2% absolute reduction per year on Scopes 1–2. Practically, a credible plan shows visible reductions within 18–24 months from levers already identified — early delivery is what makes the long-dated commitment believable.
Reduction does the work; removals neutralise the final residual at the net-zero date; credits beyond that support contribution claims. A strategy that leans on credits in place of reduction will not survive SBTi rules, disclosure scrutiny or customer questioning.
Buy time with the cheap levers now, pilot the hard ones early (process heat, feedstocks, fleet), and time capital interventions to natural replacement cycles. Sequencing against asset life is the single biggest cost saver in industrial decarbonization.
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