Credit Where Credit’s Due: How Net Zero Leaders are Using the Carbon Market

Credit Where Credit’s Due” is a session for organisations that are serious about climate leadership and want to understand what serious looks like in practice.

​Today’s voluntary carbon market is maturing rapidly: legacy, lower-quality credits are losing relevance, while a tightening tier of high-integrity, nature-based credits is targeted by companies whose finance, procurement, and sustainability teams have done the maths on climate risk.

​This session brings together net zero leaders to examine what serious climate strategy looks like in practice: how leading organisations are integrating carbon credits alongside operational decarbonisation, supply chain action, and regulatory preparation to create measurable business value; how they are structuring long-term procurement to protect against rising prices and tightening supply; and how they are making the internal business case to the people who control the budget.

​It is not a discussion about whether to act; it is about what acting well actually looks like, and why the gap between that and waiting is widening faster than most organisations have modelled.