Corporate Carbon Emissions: Accounting and reporting

This one-day workshop seeks to bring together academics, company representatives, and policy makers for a discussion on the following topics:

• Continuing Issues with the Implementation of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol
• Innovations in Measuring Product- and Company-Level Carbon Footprints
• Towards 'Generally Accepted Carbon Accounting Principles’
• Carbon Offsets: Accounting and Disclosure
• Verification and Assurance of Corporate Carbon Reports
• Enterprise Software Solutions for Carbon Accounting Systems
• The Emergence of Carbon Reporting Mandates in Different Jurisdictions

The workshop is organized by IESE Business School at its Munich campus.

9:45 a.m. - Registration and Coffee

10:15 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction: Measuring and Reporting Carbon Footprints by S. Reichelstein (U. of Mannheim and Stanford U.)

10:55 a.m. - Perspective from the Chemical Industry by J. Kurtz (BASF SE) and Alessandro Pistillo (BASF)

11:35 a.m. - Coffee Break

11:45 a.m. - Perspective from the Automotive Industry by T. Becker (BMW AG)

12:30 p.m. - Integrating Carbon Information into Financial Reporting by K. Beck (Member of the German Bundestag for Alliance 90/The Greens, Deputy Chairwoman of the Finance Committee)

12:45 p.m. - Lunch Break

1:20 p.m. - Industry Association Perspective by N. Angel (Catena-X)

2:00 p.m. - Panel: Assurance of Carbon Emissions Disclosures with H. Fink (PWC), C. Orth (EY) and T. Sellhorn (LMU, Moderator)

2:45 p.m. - Coffee Break

3:00 p.m. - Scope 3 Emissions: Challenges and Proposed Solutions by F. Klaver (Deloitte NL) and Alissa Griffioen (Deloitte Nl)

3:40 p.m. - Enterprise Software Integration by Gunther Friedl (Technical University Munich)

4:20 p.m. - Plenary Discussion with G. Ormazabal (IESE, Moderator)

5:00 p.m. - Reception