Net zero transformation roadmap
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Andree Simon Gerken
Lead energy transition & decarbonisation at PwC Germany
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Selecting suitable decarbonisation measures
In the transformation phase of your journey towards net zero, you’ll need a strategic roadmap to help you achieve your decarbonisation targets and reach net zero emissions. To do this, we identify and prioritise suitable decarbonisation measures for your company, assess cost implications and advise you on implementation.
The net zero roadmap thus serves as a guideline for the implementation of the decarbonisation strategy developed and includes a step-by-step plan with specific milestones. It also provides a detailed description of the individual decarbonisation measures. We focus on your own business operations, your supply chain and your products and services, but also consider investment opportunities beyond your own value chain.
“A clearly defined set of measures is essential to ensure that companies achieve their decarbonisation goals. When putting together your customised net zero roadmap, we at PwC make full use of our broad service portfolio and the comprehensive industry expertise of our colleagues worldwide.”
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A clear set of measures and detailed cost implications
To make your journey towards net zero strategic, effective and sustainable, it’s vital to have a clearly defined package of decarbonisation measures and to consider their cost implications.
It is important to define a clear direction and take targeted action rather than initiating random and uncoordinated individual projects. This enables you to utilise resources, time and energy efficiently and avoid missing out on important opportunities to reduce emissions. Detailed cost planning also helps to establish realistic budgets and investment plans. Thus allowing you to effectively allocate your financial resources and ensure that your decarbonisation measures are viable. Having clear guidance also enables transparent reporting on your decarbonisation projects, ultimately increasing trust among your stakeholders, customers, investors and the public.
A clearly defined pathway in the form of a strategically aligned net zero transformation roadmap not only supports your company’s environmental goals, but also ensures long-term business operations and competitiveness.
Our services at a glance
- Implementation roadmap for your business operations
- Making the energy transition tangible throughout your company
- Decarbonising your supply chain
- Decarbonising products and services
- Developing and implementing circularity in your company
- Commitment to climate action beyond your value chain
Implementation roadmap for your business operations
The costs of implementing identified decarbonisation measures may vary significantly across different company locations. It is important that you take the most cost-efficient path. Our experts support you in identifying and implementing this path step by step in your company worldwide.
Making the energy transition tangible throughout your company
The energy transition is vital to reducing your company’s carbon footprint. Our experts can help you with this in various aspects of your transition to net zero, such as switching to renewable energy sources, increasing energy efficiency or investing in innovation and research.
The strategic integration of renewable energy into your net zero transformation roadmap supports you in pursuing your sustainability goals.
Decarbonising your supply chain
Decarbonisation within your supply chain plays a key role in achieving your net zero ambitions. Multinational companies are in a unique position to influence the processing method, for example, by selecting lower-emission raw materials together with suppliers.
To enable you to maximise decarbonisation in your supply chain, we can help you analyse hotspots within your company’s purchasing activities. We then use the results of this analysis to draw up tailored options, such as switching to alternative products, materials or suppliers, introducing circular business models, or launching a targeted supplier engagement strategy to transition your suppliers to net zero.
Decarbonising products and services
To achieve your sustainability goals, you’ll need to rethink and redesign your production processes, logistics, and how your products and services are used. Our experts bring together design and sustainability, driven by sustainable innovation, to tie in important interest groups, integrate ESG considerations into the design, develop prototypes and create value.
Working together to develop sustainable, circular, transparent and networked products and services will enable you and your company to remain relevant and resilient in the future.
Developing and implementing circularity in your company
If you knew that your company was missing out on profits every day, wouldn’t you try to do something about it? Because this is exactly what happens whenever your products are thrown away – valuable resources are lost. Focusing on circularity can enable you to recover some of these resources, allowing both your company and society and the environment as a whole to profit.
Our circular economy experts have developed a methodology to help companies develop and implement circular solutions.
Commitment to climate action beyond your value chain
The focus of a net zero strategy is decarbonisation – throughout your value chain. But you should go further with your environmental commitments and invest in urgently needed conservation projects now. This will help protect and restore the natural world over the long period that it will take you to decarbonise.
Although widely employed, the practice of achieving climate neutrality on paper by purchasing carbon credits is frowned upon by the EU and presents considerable reputational risks. A high-quality, transparent alternative option for supporting conservation in Germany is PwC’s Klimafabrik Deutscher Wald project, which is based on the Ecosystem Value Association’s Waldklima Standard. The aim of Klimafabrik Deutscher Wald is to bring together forest owners with companies looking to engage in nature conservation.
Our promise: an individual package of measures to meet your needs
We will work with you to select specific decarbonisation measures for your pathway to net zero, always focusing on your individual challenges and needs. Your roadmap is a key component of your transition to net zero and is designed to ensure that your efforts to decarbonise and increase sustainability are efficient, effective and workable.
Your roadmap will include a detailed description of the individual decarbonisation measures and initiatives to be implemented – both within your various business units and beyond. We’ll also draw up a precise schedule and a resource plan.
All this will provide your company with a clear pathway to achieve your climate goals and help combat climate change around the world.
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Director energy transition and decarbonization, PwC Germany
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