Turning Emission Reduction Plans into Measurable ROI

Choosing where to invest in emission reduction isn't just a sustainability challenge, it's a business decision. And without a clear way to compare options, quantify impact and understand ROI, sustainability teams risk spending time and capital on initiatives that don't deliver the outcomes they expect.

In this webinar, Climate Zero Managing Director Tai Lennon and Chief Product Officer Jess Symes are joined by Dr. Elliott Moore, Founder of Viable Pathway, to explore how organisations can move from static spreadsheet-based planning to dynamic, interactive transition modelling, all within one platform.

Dr. Moore, who holds a PhD in sustainability and strategic foresight, shared how his experience building complex Excel-based transition plans for large companies inspired him to develop an automated projection engine. As he explained during the session, sustainability managers were often too afraid to change anything in the consultant-built models, creating a barrier to truly owning their transition plans. The partnership with Climate Zero solves this by putting interactive, auditable modelling directly in the hands of the people who need it most.

What the webinar covers

• From carbon accounting to transition planning: How Climate Zero's emissions data feeds into Viable Pathway's projection engine to create quantified pathways.
• Understanding the projection layers: What baselines, external trends, and internal actions represent and how they interact to close the abatement gap.
• External trends that work in your favour: How societal-level decarbonisation is factored into projections using regularly updated forecasts from sources like the IEA and AEMO.
• Modelling internal actions with ROI: A live walkthrough of how to model actions with emissions reductions, cost savings, payback periods, and marginal abatement costs.
• Marginal Abatement Cost (MAC) curves: How to visualise cost-effectiveness to prioritise quick wins and build a compelling business case.
• Stress testing with warming scenarios: How modelling varying warming scenarios gives confidence that your plan is resilient and helps you plan contingency actions.
• Supporting AASB S2 compliance: How this modelling provides the quantitative data and defensive evidence that underpin credible climate-related disclosures.
• Q&A session covering multi-site modelling, whether you need existing targets, forecast methodology, and alignment with TCFD and CSRD.

Speakers

Tai Lennon - Managing Director, Climate Zero. Tai brings firsthand experience navigating internal conversations about unlocking budget for decarbonisation initiatives and the importance of clarity, confidence and ROI when seeking C-suite alignment.

Jess Symes - Chief Product Officer, Climate Zero. Jess is the driving force behind Climate Zero's carbon accounting and climate literacy products, ensuring functionality meets real customer needs with an intuitive user experience that auditors also appreciate.

Dr. Elliott Moore - Founder, Viable Pathway. Elliott holds a PhD in sustainability and strategic foresight and has spent years as a carbon consultant helping large companies - including European organisations reporting under CSRD - build credible, defensible transition plans.

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