CDxLaunch2024 Archives

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Setting Decarbonization Targets that Stick: Business Drivers, Financial Incentives, and the Path Forward

Setting carbon targets is easy, achieving them is where the real work begins. This blog captures key insights from the CDx Launch Event on what makes targets credible, measurable, and meaningful. Learn how Southeast Asian businesses are aligning financial incentives like sustainability-linked loans with SMART goals, overcoming Scope 3 challenges, and embedding targets into operations to avoid greenwashing. With a focus on SMEs, this resource offers a clear view of what’s needed to turn climate ambition into lasting impact.

June 13, 2025

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Building a Strong Emissions Baseline: Why It Matters and How to Start

Every credible climate strategy starts with knowing your emissions. This blog unpacks lessons from the CDx Launch Event, showing how Southeast Asian businesses, especially SMEs, can build a solid emissions baseline using practical tools, phased approaches, and insights from industry leaders. Learn how to navigate Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, avoid common pitfalls, and turn measurement into a strategic edge.

June 13, 2025

Fueling the Future: Tackling Renewable Heat and Fuel Switching in Southeast Asia

Industrial heat is one of the toughest decarbonization challenges in Southeast Asia. This blog draws from CDx Launch Event insights to explore fuel-switching strategies including biomass, heat pumps, green hydrogen, and waste-to-energy. It breaks down the trade-offs, technology limitations, and financing barriers, especially for SMEs, and points to practical tools and partnerships that can help companies reduce heat-related emissions while boosting resilience.

June 13, 2025

Making Renewables Work for Your Business: Onsite and Offsite Solutions Explained

Renewable energy is no longer optional – it’s strategic. This blog distills expert insights from the CDx Launch Event on how Southeast Asian businesses can choose and implement the right mix of onsite (e.g., solar PV) and offsite (e.g., PPAs, RECs) solutions. It covers SME-friendly innovations like hybrid systems, micro-utility models, and bundled contracts, while unpacking barriers like market volatility and limited policy support. Whether you’re just starting or scaling your RE strategy, this is your roadmap to practical, profitable action.

June 13, 2025

The Great Offsets Debate: Navigating the Landscape to Credible Carbon Offsetting

The debate over carbon offsets continues to divide climate experts and corporate leaders. The Great Offsets Debate explored whether offsets are a credible tool in the fight against climate change or a convenient way to delay real action. Proponents emphasized their role in managing hard-to-abate emissions and driving transparency, while critics highlighted risks of greenwashing and a need for stronger direct action within supply chains. With evolving standards and increasing scrutiny, the session underscored that offsets must be used sparingly, transparently, and always in support of (not as a substitute for) genuine decarbonization.

June 13, 2025

Transition Finance in Action: How Southeast Asia Can Scale Decarbonization with Practical, People-Centered Solutions

Transition finance isn’t just about funding green projects, it’s about transforming entire economies from the inside out. In this CDx plenary session, finance leaders explored how Southeast Asia can bridge policy gaps, de-risk sustainable investments through blended finance, and unlock practical decarbonization tools for SMEs. From scalable rooftop solar to landmark government-backed deals, the session emphasized that credible, inclusive pathways depend on strong leadership, standardized metrics, and workforce development. With smart finance, policy innovation, and people-centered strategies, Southeast Asia can lead the global charge toward a just transition.

June 12, 2025

[CDx 2024] Decarbonization and Corporate Priorities Why One Size Doesn't Fit All

Developing Investable Decarbonization Projects

Turning climate ambition into action requires more than good intentions; it demands investment-ready strategies. This blog unpacks how Southeast Asian companies can translate decarbonization plans into financially viable projects. Drawing on insights from CDx 2024, it explores the importance of leadership vision, overcoming financial hurdles, adapting to EU regulations like CSRD, and seizing sustainable finance opportunities.

June 12, 2025

De-Risking Energy Efficiency: ESCO Models for Smarter Investment

Energy efficiency projects often stall due to upfront costs and perceived risks – especially for SMEs. This blog unpacks how Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) are changing the game by offering performance-based contracts that eliminate capital barriers and shift risk. Drawing on CDx Launch Event insights, it highlights trusted models, international M&V standards like IPMVP, and enabling policies that make energy efficiency not just possible, but profitable.

June 12, 2025

Making Smarter Climate Claims: How SMEs Can Use RECs and Carbon Credits Responsibly

For SMEs in Southeast Asia, choosing between Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and carbon credits can be confusing; but it’s a critical step in credible decarbonization. This blog offers clear, practical guidance on how these tools work, when to use them across different emissions scopes, and how to avoid greenwashing. It also outlines common pitfalls and introduces emerging standards that help businesses communicate their impact with confidence.

June 11, 2025

Decarbonization and Corporate Priorities: Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Corporate decarbonization in Southeast Asia requires more than broad commitments; it demands targeted, sector-specific action. This CDx Townhall session unpacked five key pathways to industrial decarbonization, from demand management to low-carbon fuels. Panelists emphasized the urgent need to bridge the capability gap between large corporations and SMEs, and to pair emerging technologies like AI and digital twins with proven strategies like energy efficiency. Cross-sector collaboration and coalitions are proving instrumental in driving policy advocacy and practical change. With the right leadership, support mechanisms, and innovation, companies across the region can transition to a competitive low-carbon future.

June 11, 2025

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