// Carbon & Climate

Decarbonisation & Net-Zero Strategy

Move from an emissions baseline to a reduction plan the business can actually fund and deliver.

Reduction levers assessed against cost, feasibility and impact, sequenced into a roadmap with owners, capital requirements and interim targets.

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// Context

Why this matters

A target is not a plan. Organisations that announce a long-dated commitment without an underlying pathway tend to find that the intervening years produce activity rather than reduction, and that the commitment becomes a reputational liability rather than an asset.

A workable decarbonisation plan is unglamorous. It identifies the specific levers available to this organisation, what each one costs, what it delivers, when it can realistically be implemented, and who owns it.

It also has to survive contact with capital planning. Reduction measures compete with every other use of capital in the business, so the plan needs to present them in terms a finance function recognises.

// The engagement

How CER helps

Baseline review and emissions driver analysis
Reduction lever identification across energy, process, fleet, refrigerants and procurement
Marginal abatement cost assessment of each lever
Feasibility and implementation constraint review
Scenario modelling of alternative pathways
Interim target setting with a defined base year
Sequencing and roadmap development with owners and dependencies
Capital and operating cost estimation
Governance, monitoring and reporting design
Guidance on the appropriate role, if any, of carbon credits

// Deliverables

What you receive

Emissions driver analysis
Assessed reduction lever register with cost and impact estimates
Decarbonisation pathway showing modelled scenarios
Interim targets and base year statement
Implementation roadmap with owners, sequencing and dependencies
Capital requirement summary
Monitoring and governance framework

Frameworks and standards

GHG Protocol Corporate Standard
ISO 14064-1

// Fit

Who this is for

Organisations with a completed emissions baseline and no reduction plan
Companies that have made a public commitment and need a pathway behind it
Manufacturers facing energy cost and customer pressure simultaneously
Boards seeking a costed view of what decarbonisation requires

// Why CER

Practitioners, not report writers

CER works from Singapore with organisations across Asia, which matters for this service because requirements arriving from European regulators, regional supervisors and local listing rules do not align neatly.

Engagements run through to implementation: the data collection process, the documentation, the controls and the internal handover, so that the second cycle is cheaper than the first and can be run without us.

Where an organisation would be better served by building the capability internally, CER Academy delivers the same technical material as training.

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// Our people

Expertise on this service

Raymond Cheung

Advisor & Lead Trainer

Over twenty years in actuarial science and risk management, working across ESG, sustainability and ESG investment.

Actuarial science · Risk management · ESG and sustainability

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Chan Ee Chong

Lead Consultant

Over twenty years in wealth management and business consultancy, with ESG project experience across South-East Asia.

ESG advisory · Wealth management · Business consultancy

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// Questions

Frequently asked

Do we need a full inventory before starting?

You need a reliable baseline for the emissions you intend to reduce. Building a reduction plan on figures that are not defensible produces a plan that cannot be measured against.

What is a marginal abatement cost curve?

It ranks available reduction measures by cost per tonne of emissions avoided, against the volume each delivers. It is a prioritisation tool, and it is only as good as the cost and impact estimates behind it -- which is why those are built from your operations rather than sector averages.

Should we buy carbon credits?

Credits do not substitute for reduction, and treating them as though they do creates real exposure. Where they have a role it is usually limited and specific. We set out what that role would be in your case, including where the answer is that there is not one yet.

How far out should targets go?

Long-dated targets are difficult to manage against. Interim targets on a horizon the current management team is accountable for tend to produce more actual reduction.

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