28 Apr 2025
Industry/business use of ‘complementary measures’ for decarbonisation: Looking beyond pricing and regulation to voluntary and other approaches
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Background
While pricing mechanisms and regulatory mandates have a central role to play in promoting decarbonisation efforts, there are also a variety of other 'complementary approaches' being explored by policy makers and business to achieve this end. These include voluntary partnerships between the public and private sectors, business/civil society collaborations, unilateral company-led initiatives, and a variety of shareholder driven efforts [including by government as shareholders, i.e. state-owned enterprises (SOEs)].
This workshop will present an occasion to share experiences around the use of these complementary measures and the opportunities and challenges they pose, as well as to provide a more complete 'inventory' of these approaches and the contexts in which they are being implemented.
Welcome and opening remarks
Session 1: Overview of the landscape – towards a typology of complementary approaches and a conceptual framework for action
- Paul Simpson, CDP
- Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group
- Yasuji Komiyama, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Japan
- Nicoletta Piccolrovazzi, Dow
Session 2: Focus on assessment – how well are these programs doing / what criteria do we use for evaluation?
- Hiroyuki Tezuka, JFE Steel; Keidanren
- Keigo Akimoto, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (no slides)
- Rory Sullivan, University of Leeds
- Timo Busch, University of Hamburg
- Luisa Florez, AXA Investment Managers (no slides)
Session 3: Complementary programs from around the world (break-out groups)
Group A: Voluntary agreements and government-initiated programs
Group B: Business/NGO collaborations and company-led initiatives
- Julien Colas, Entreprises pour l'Environnement (EpE) (no slides)
- Eliot Metzger, World Resources Institute (WRI)
- Rory Sullivan, University of Leeds
- Xavier Riera-Palou, Shell
Session 4: Challenges and opportunities in developing and transition economies and SOEs
- Dietrich Earnhart, University of Kansas
- May Tan-Mullins, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
- Jean-Yves Caneill, Électricité de France (EDF)
Session 5: Possible role for complementary actions beyond Paris – reports from breakout groups and suggestions for next steps
- Taishi Sugiyama, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI)
- Angel Hsu, Yale University
- Maria Mendiluce, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
- Emmanuel Guérin, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (no slides)