{"id":3900,"date":"2023-04-18T11:07:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T11:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esggia.com\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2023-06-01T08:17:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T08:17:19","slug":"las-empresas-que-aspiran-a-ser-climaticamente-neutras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esggia.com\/en\/2023\/04\/18\/las-empresas-que-aspiran-a-ser-climaticamente-neutras\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon credits: beyond emissions offsetting"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is common practice for companies that aspire to be climate neutral, to offset emissions that they cannot reduce themselves with emissions avoided or eliminated by external climate-positive projects, such as those that promote reforestation or carbon capture. This compensation is articulated through buying carbon credits generated by these projects, which are viable thanks to the income from the sale of credits.

The voluntary market for carbon credits is on the rise: it exceeded $2 billion in 2021 and is expected to grow more than 10 times by 2030. Nature-based solutions and renewable energy projects currently account for 90 % of total investment.

However, the credibility of offsetting as a climate action instrument is in question: does it drive greenwashing<\/em> or genuine Sustainability? I highlight two reasons that motivate this questioning:<\/p>\n

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  1. There are companies that are doing an excessive use of these credits, offsetting with them emissions whose reduction they could manage directly.<\/li>\n
  2. The quality of the projects is very heterogeneous and there is no objective framework for credit prices consistent with each project's impact.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In parallel to the necessary structuring and regulation of this market on a global scale, this context represents a great opportunity for companies that consider \"compensatory\" projects not in a transactional way, as mere credit providers, but strategically, as accelerators of competitive advantages and growth. For example:<\/p>\n

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    1. These projects can provide differential intelligence to enter adjacent businesses or grow in new geographies. This may be the case of biodiversity regenerative projects for companies in sectors such as agrifood, environmental services or biomaterials.<\/li>\n
    2. Factoring carbon credits into company innovation projects can enable many of them that would not be profitable on their own. This approach would drive, for example, the development of new circular solutions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      A greater involvement of companies in the design, financing and execution of climate-positive projects would substantially improve their quality and transparency, facilitating the connection with the investment community. Companies with this mindset will multiply their positive impact, acting as promoters of a sustainable entrepreneurship ecosystem.<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Es pr\u00e1ctica habitual de las empresas que aspiran a ser clim\u00e1ticamente neutras compensar las emisiones que no pueden reducir por sus medios con otras evitadas o eliminadas por proyectos externos clim\u00e1ticamente positivos, como los que impulsan la reforestaci\u00f3n o la captura de carbono. Esta compensaci\u00f3n se articula comprando cr\u00e9ditos de carbono generados por estos proyectos, que son viables gracias a los ingresos procedentes de la propia venta de cr\u00e9ditos. El mercado voluntario de cr\u00e9ditos de carbono est\u00e1 en alza: super\u00f3 los 2.000 millones de d\u00f3lares en 2021 y se prev\u00e9 que aumente su tama\u00f1o en m\u00e1s de 10 veces en 2030. Los proyectos de soluciones basadas en la naturaleza y de energ\u00edas renovables concentran actualmente un 90% de la inversi\u00f3n total. Sin embargo, la credibilidad de la compensaci\u00f3n como instrumento de acci\u00f3n clim\u00e1tica est\u00e1 en entredicho: \u00bfimpulsa el greenwashing o la Sostenibilidad genuina? Destaco dos razones que motivan este cuestionamiento: Hay empresas que est\u00e1n abusando del uso de estos cr\u00e9ditos, compensando con ellos emisiones cuya reducci\u00f3n podr\u00edan gestionar directamente. La calidad de los proyectos es muy heterog\u00e9nea y no hay un marco objetivo de precios de los cr\u00e9ditos consistente con el impacto de cada proyecto. En paralelo a una necesaria estructuraci\u00f3n y regulaci\u00f3n de este mercado a escala global, este contexto supone una gran oportunidad para las empresas que contemplen los proyectos \u00abcompensatorios\u00bb no de forma transaccional, como meros suministradores de cr\u00e9ditos, sino estrat\u00e9gica, como aceleradores de ventajas competitivas y crecimiento. Por ejemplo: Estos proyectos pueden aportar inteligencia diferencial para entrar en negocios adyacentes o crecer en nuevas geograf\u00edas. Este puede ser el caso de proyectos regenerativos de la biodiversidad para empresas de sectores como el agroalimentario, servicios medioambientales o biomateriales. Factorizar los cr\u00e9ditos de carbono en los proyectos de innovaci\u00f3n de las empresas puede habilitar muchos de ellos que no ser\u00edan rentables por s\u00ed mismos. Este enfoque impulsar\u00eda, por ejemplo, el desarrollo de nuevas soluciones circulares. Una mayor involucraci\u00f3n de las empresas en el dise\u00f1o, financiaci\u00f3n y ejecuci\u00f3n de los proyectos clim\u00e1ticamente positivos mejorar\u00eda sustancialmente su calidad y transparencia, facilitando la conexi\u00f3n con la comunidad inversora. Las empresas con esta mentalidad multiplicar\u00e1n su impacto positivo, actuando como impulsoras de un ecosistema de emprendimiento sostenible.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medioambiente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esggia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esggia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esggia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esggia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esggia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/esggia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4642,"href":"https:\/\/esggia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions\/4642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esggia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esggia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esggia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esggia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}