Net-Zero Innovation Initiative - 1.5 °C compatibility assessments
1.5 °C Compatibility Assessment of tools/initiatives
Opportunities
Challenges
Description
Description comments
What the assessment is meant to be used for
2. Support solutions: By providing means to quantify the impact of a specific solution, companies can use the tool to justify a shift to more sustainable practices
4. Increased positive impact: Quantifying avoided emissions helps introduce solutions as well as priortizing those with the highest impact
8. Reporting: Instructions for how to report on the results are included in the framework guidance
Scope of assessment
1. Avoided Emissions: Main focus
Stakeholder focus
5. Other: No focus on a specific type of stakeholder has been identified
Assessment activities
1. Developing Principles (Offering high-level standards to begin to align stakholders: Stated as primary target
2. Assessment & Internal reporting (Organizing common metrics & methodological guidelines): As the tool is designed for external use, this category is likely how it is/will be used
Time horizon
4. Other: The time covered by the assessment is specific to each assessment
Methodology
1. Individual LCA/assessment: Individual assessments of activities and/or solutions within an organization
Approach
1. Reduce problems from existing sectors: Likely to support incremental changes as well as more disruptive changes within an organization
2. Delivering new solutions to needs: Likely to support incremental changes as well as more disruptive changes within an organization
Process
2. Delta (made to help innovations/companies improve): Identified as main purpose of the assessments
Assessment unit
2. Individual solutions (economic, leagal, etc): The scope of the assessment methodology is described to target 'goods and services and their cumulative baseline emissions'
Solution areas
8. Other/not specific: The framework provides 'fundamental principles and framework' for estimating avoided emissions. As such no specific area or focus is expect (or identified)
Process for verifying data
3. No process/nontransparent: The framework states that verification of avoided emissions through internal channels should be done, but no specific detail on how to do it is not provided
Data provided by
4. Conducting solution assessments is not a focus: The framework does not directly conduct assessments
1.5 C Pathway Focus
5. N/A, unknown: No specific solution focus has been identified, the framework is considered ambivalent to the different 1.5C pathways
Scale of operations
5d. Other indicator of scale: Other: No scale of operation identified
1.5 °C Compability Assessment comments
Challenges
1. Lock-in Potential from the solutions: Some solutions may appear as disruptive/transformative in theory, but not necessarily be so in practice (not unique to this specific initiative)
2. Supply and End-of-Pipe Focus: Some solutions may appear as disruptive/transformative in theory, but not necessarily be so in practice (not unique to this specific initiative)
3. Excluding Transformative (System) Solutions: Transformative solutions are of highest priority within the project
5. Resource Intensive Solutions: Similar to lock-in potential and supply focus, it is a challenge to filter out resource intensive solutions without significant analysis. Some solutions may also be resource intensive but provide other positive aspects (e.g. focus on core human needs)