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Net zero planning

A dated, costed pathway
with the residual stated openly

A dated, costed pathway to net zero, with the residual emissions and the removals strategy stated openly.
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Net zero planning
2045
Median client target year
87%
Abatement before removals
$61/t
Median cost of abatement
A pathway, not a pledge
Overview

A pathway, not a pledge

Net zero is an engineering and capital question. We build the pathway from your asset register so abatement lands on replacement cycles rather than on write-offs.
Asset register and cycle mapping
Interim and long-term targets
Abatement sequencing by cost
Residual emissions quantified
Removals procurement strategy
Annual progress verification
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Benefits

Why a costed pathway
beats a target

Six reasons the organizations still on track in year five are the ones that planned the capital, not only the commitment.
Cheaper abatement
Cheaper abatement
Aligning interventions to replacement cycles avoids paying twice for equipment that still works.
Genuine reduction
Genuine reduction
Sequencing by cost per tonne puts the cheap, large cuts first and keeps momentum funded.
Independence from offsets
Independence from offsets
A pathway that abates first needs removals for a residual, not for the bulk of the number.
Funding aligned
Funding aligned
Interventions are matched to grants, credits and sustainability-linked facilities as they fall due.
Verified progress
Verified progress
Annual verification against the pathway, so drift is visible in year two rather than year six.
Durable commitment
Durable commitment
A target the capital plan can carry is one that survives a change of chief executive.
Honest arithmetic, including the hard part
Why we are

Honest arithmetic, including the hard part

The last ten percent is where most pathways quietly fail, so it is the part we insist on quantifying first.
Built from assets
Pathways modeled on your equipment and its replacement dates, not on a percentage curve.
Residual quantified
The emissions you cannot abate are counted and named before any removal is bought.
Durable removals
Removals procured on permanence and additionality, with contracts we would sign ourselves.
Annual verification
Progress checked against the pathway each year, with the variance explained.

Net zero is an accounting state, not a slogan: emissions reduced as far as is technically feasible, and the small remainder balanced with durable removals. Most published plans skip the second half of that sentence, which is why so many of them will not land.

Build the pathway from the asset register

We work from what you actually own and operate. Every boiler, furnace, vehicle, refrigerant charge, leased floor and major supplier contract gets a replacement date and an abatement option with a cost. Stack those and you have a pathway with a shape — usually flat for two years while nothing is due for replacement, then stepped as capital cycles come round.

Aligning decarbonization to asset replacement cycles is the single largest cost lever available. Replacing a functioning asset early costs the full capital; replacing it with a better option at end of life costs only the increment.

Be honest about the residual

  • Process emissions with no commercial alternative today
  • Hard-to-abate transport, particularly aviation and marine freight
  • Agricultural and land-use emissions in the upstream supply chain
  • Fugitive emissions that can be reduced substantially but not to zero

If your plan reaches zero without naming a residual, the pathway has an unexamined assumption in it somewhere.

Removals, procured carefully

For the residual, we help you build a removals portfolio with stated criteria: durability measured in centuries rather than decades where the budget allows, additionality that survives scrutiny, monitoring that continues after the credit is issued, and a diversified set of suppliers so that one project’s failure does not unwind the claim. We also advise on when forward purchase agreements make sense, and when they simply transfer delivery risk to you.

Governance and revision

The pathway is re-baselined annually against actual emissions and actual capital spend. Where the business has grown, acquired or divested, the plan is restated under a written recalculation policy. Where a technology assumption has not matured on schedule, that is flagged in the year it becomes apparent, not in the target year.

FAQs

Frequently asked
questions

Frequently asked questions
Photovoltaic modules convert sunlight directly into direct current electricity, which an inverter converts to alternating current for your site or the grid. Output follows irradiance rather than demand, which is why we model your hourly load alongside the resource before fixing a system size.
Every engagement starts from your own data — interval meter readings, an asset register, or a year of on-site measurement — rather than from a template. The design that follows is sized to your load profile, site constraints and growth plan, and we show you the trade-offs we made on the way.
Advisory engagements usually run six to sixteen weeks. Built projects depend almost entirely on permitting and grid connection: a commercial rooftop can be energized inside a year, while utility-scale generation typically runs two to four years from site control to commercial operation.
Yes. We build the inventory, install the controls, map one data set out to whichever frameworks apply to you, and draft the disclosure itself. We also run assurance readiness reviews so the first engagement with an auditor is not the first time the process is tested.
We build the pathway from your asset register, aligning abatement to replacement cycles so you are not writing off working equipment. We also quantify the residual emissions honestly and help you procure durable removals against them, rather than assuming the last ten percent away.