This week marked an important step in accelerating industrial decarbonisation with the official launch of the Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA) in Brazil, with Systemiq Ltd. as a key execution partner. The mission of ITA, a global initiative launched by the COP28 Presidency, United Nations Climate Change, and Bloomberg Philanthropies, under the coordination of the Mission Possible Partnership (MPP), is to reduce emissions across high-emission sectors such as aluminum, cement, chemicals, steel, aviation, and shipping. The goal is to catalyse investments and support innovative technologies to meet these challenges. The launch event featured insights from key leaders in the initiative: * Faustine Delasalle, Executive Director of ITA, shared the vision of the program and highlighted the global ambition to tackle emissions through industrial transformation. * Dr. Nelson Pereira dos Reis, Vice-President and Director of the Department of Sustainable Development at Fiesp - Federação das Indústrias do Estado de São Paulo, emphasized Brazil’s role in the growth of sustainable industries. * Rodrigo Rollemberg, Secretary of Green Economy, Decarbonization, and Bioindustry at MDIC, discussed the partnership between MDIC and ITA to promote low-carbon production in Brazil. * Rodrigo Santana, Operations Director at Atlas Agro, provided valuable perspectives from the industrial sector, emphasizing opportunities for sustainable development and decarbonization. With Brazil as ITA’s first national partner, the country leads with a portfolio of over 15 decarbonisation projects valued at $33 billion, highlighting its potential to become a global leader in green industrial production. ITA’s objective is to establish a robust pipeline of projects ready for investment by 2026 and operational by 2030, in alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Through strategic collaboration between industry, government, and finance, we can build a more sustainable future. #Decarbonisation #SustainableIndustry #ITA #GreenEconomy
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The system change company. We work for a thriving planet where sustainable economic systems drive prosperity for all.
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We founded Systemiq, the system change company, to help design and build that better economy. We seek to bring speed and scale to transforming five systems that shape how we live and work: energy, nature and food, materials, urban areas, and finance.
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📣 We're excited to announce the launch of Systemiq’s latest report, 'Breaking the Chain: Risks, Regulations, and Roadmap for Phasing Out PFAS from Food Delivery Packaging'. As the food delivery industry continues to grow, the hidden risk of PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals", in packaging cannot be ignored. PFAS are commonly used for their water- and grease-resistant properties, but they persist in the environment and pose serious health risks, including hormone disruption and cancer. 'Breaking the Chain' takes a holistic approach to examining the risks, regulatory trends, and potential solutions to phasing out PFAS in food delivery packaging. Key Insights: 🔹 PFAS are widely used in food delivery packaging, with one study identifying PFAS in 75% of disposable food packaging samples across six European countries. 🔹 Phasing out PFAS from food delivery packaging is feasible – and businesses across the globe are already making it happen. A variety of alternatives exist, each with its own pros and cons. 🔹 Businesses can act now, taking control of the transition to minimise risks and potential future disruption. Governments can speed up the transition with clear definitions, regulatory certainty and targeted incentives for sustainable alternatives. Want to learn more about the challenges and solutions for businesses and policymakers? Explore the full report ▶️ https://lnkd.in/ehFDyn5M
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We're pleased to announce our partnership in the 2024 #ClimateLeadersForum, a roundtable event for sustainability leaders to discuss and exchange ideas on enhancing corporate sustainability leadership. The forum will be held on 21 October 2024 at the UK House of Lords. Details ▶️ https://lnkd.in/eS6DpEKD London Tech Week Tech Nation
Less than one week to go until #ClimateLeadersForum2, taking place on Monday 21 October at UK House of Lords 🌱🚀 We're delighted to announce the partners supporting this exclusive, invite-only forum, where sustainability leaders will gather to discuss, share and network: - Patch | Patch combines technology and carbon markets expertise to help companies build and execute their carbon credit strategies - channelling capital into critical climate solutions. - Systemiq Ltd. | Systemiq is a systems change company that works with businesses, policymakers, investors, and civil society organisations to reimagine and reshape the systems that sit at the heart of society - energy, nature and food, materials, built-environment, and finance - to accelerate the shift to a more sustainable and inclusive economy. - Systemiq Capital | Systemiq Capital backs climate tech founders raising their late seed to Series A/B rounds. Systemiq Capital's portfolio companies benefit from access to their unparalleled climate knowledge and networks. They believe that the transition to a net zero and nature positive economy will be underpinned by rapidly declining cost curves in the foundational technologies of the next decade – electrification, biotechnology and AI. 👉 Learn more about the event and what we do on our website: https://lnkd.in/eS6DpEKD #CLF2 #Climate #Technology #CorporateSustainability #Sustainability #Forum #London #HouseOfLords
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Climate-related disasters are a serious threat, even for wealthy countries. Hurricanes Helene and Milton, caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damages across the U.S., sending a loud and clear message. Over the past two decades, emerging and developing economies have suffered a staggering $525 billion in losses from extreme weather events. This represents one-fifth of their collective GDP. To this, one has to add rapidly growing nature risks. For finance ministers, this should serve as a wake-up call: failing to invest in resilience today means setting up their countries for economic decline tomorrow. However, climate and nature resilience is not on the agenda for many, leaving countries unprepared for escalating risks. As we approach the World Bank/IMF annual meetings and the biodiversity conference in Cali, we have the opportunity to initiate the urgent need to prioritise climate and nature risks within macroeconomics and public finance. Systemiq Partner Guido Schmidt-Traub writes in Sustainable Views about the role the IMF can play in helping countries integrate climate and nature resilience into economic growth and investment strategies, as well as what needs to happen next. Read the full article 🔻 Pep Bardouille Kevin Bender The Nature Conservancy Ulrich Volz Jamie Drummond Mark Gough Friederike Röder Brett House The ONE Campaign Global Citizen Sharing Strategies #ClimateAction #ClimateFinance #ClimateResilience
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It was really fantastic to join Barney Lloyd-Wood Maria Alejandra Pulido Parra and Kate Newbury-Hyde for this Climate Bonds Initiative podcast focused on what it’s going to take to transform the food sector 🌱🎙️Taking on board Kate’s great advice, these conversations always give me more energy to remain stubbornly optimistic! In the podcast I shared some of the headline findings from the recent Future Fit Food and Agriculture reports published by the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development, We Mean Business Coalition and Systemiq Ltd. If you want to know more about these findings you can access the reports here https://lnkd.in/ecQthUkU
🌱🎙️ This week on the Climate Bonds Café, we’re talking #Agriculture,#Food and #Land Use, everything you need to know from farm to fork 🧑🌾 Join a busy virtual sofa to analyse the sector, all across the value chain. There’s so much work to be done, so many costs but also benefits of a food systems transition, as well as the need for this to be an equitable distribution. We hope to inform you, involve you and inspire you 🎧 Joining us🗣️ Maria Alejandra Pulido Parra, EU Sustainability Agri Lead, Climate Bonds Initiative Kitty Parker Brooks-Brooks, Project Manager, Nature and Materials, Systemiq Ltd. Kate Newbury-Hyde, Senior Manager, Agriculture and Food, WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development Listen here🔗https://lnkd.in/evpMwEbC
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Recently, Britain became the first #G7 country to end its use of #coal for #electricity. Our sector analysts in Systemiq's Paris office consider whether France could be next... The move comes a few months after the last G7 meeting, at which energy ministers agreed to close coal-fired power plants by 2035 at the latest. During that meeting, France argued for a more ambitious exit from coal by 2030; however, two coal power plants remain in operation in France, in Saint-Avold and Cordemais. As shown in the Energy Transitions Commission report "Fossil Fuels in Transition", published in December, coal is mainly used for electricity generation, steel and cement. In France, 57 TWh of primary consumption is divided between cast iron (62%), electricity and heat production (21%) and the manufacturing industry (12%). In contrast to the global picture (below), coal-fired electricity production is a minor part of France’s mix, which is mainly based on nuclear power. Electricity production from coal represents only about 1% of national electricity production. https://lnkd.in/eCbQFV5y France's challenge on coal is to: - rapidly reduce coal-fired electricity generation and become the second G7 country to phase it out entirely. This will require investments in alternative sources such as renewable energy coupled with storage solutions or nuclear. Given the timeframes, the fastest low-carbon solutions will be renewables plus storage and hydroelectricity. - replace coal in the steel industry, switching to low-carbon steel production... a subject we will return to in a future post. #energytransition #carbonneutral #renewables #greensteel #COP29 #France #coal
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Systemiq Partner Eveline Speelman shares her reflections from the panel event she took part in, Making policy work for the hard-to-abate sectors, at the recently held 4th annual Sustainability Week: Countdown to COP29 👇🏼 #Sustainability #NetZero #Innovation Economist Impact Economist Impact events
Yesterday, I attended the Economist Impact "4th Annual Sustainability Week: Countdown to COP29" event in Amsterdam. It was nice to see that positive tipping points, our latest favorite topic at Systemiq Ltd., was referenced several times during the day. As a reminder, a tipping point as described in our Breakthrough Effect report last year, is a moment in time when a new solution becomes more competitive than incumbent solutions across three dimensions: Affordability, Attractiveness and Accessibility (the 3 A's). In his keynote in the morning, Paul Polman mentioned how positive tipping points have a key role to play in the transition. In a panel together with Andreas Follér of TRATON GROUP, Christoph Wolff of Smart Freight Centre and Pernille Dahlgaard, MBA, GCB.D of Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping, we talked about what innovative approaches can help accelerate decarbonization in hard-to-abate sectors. We found that cross-value chain collaborations are a key means to do so, by focusing on targeted actions to trigger tipping points, e.g. through ZEPA for container handling equipment. Zita Schellekens, of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, shared during her fireside chat with Christina Cassotis more on how 'our' project SkyPower - a CEO-led cross-value chain initiative to make e-SAF a commercial reality by 2030, is a critical potential enabler to achieve first FIDs and tipping points for e-SAF. Are you also interested to know more on how this can accelerate change in your sector / for you technology? We'd love to connect. Maaike Witteveen Peter Goult Maximilian Held Trishla Shah
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💻 Join us for our upcoming webinar on October 24th, "Unlocking Circularity for PET Packaging in the USA: 2040 system modeling and recommendations," co-hosted with the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) Coalition. This webinar will address questions like: 🧴 What could a better system for #PET #packaging and #polyester #textiles in the United States look like if proven “#circular” approaches to reducing consumption, #reuse and #recycling are adopted? 💼 What would this mean for cutting waste, job creation, and tackling #climate #change? 🌎 And what will it take to get there? Cloé Ragot and Rob Wilson from #Systemiq will present the findings of our upcoming study, exploring what a system for PET packaging and polyester textiles in the United States would look like, if it could combine all circular economy approaches including demand reduction, reuse, mechanical recycling and depolymerisation recycling - and what it would take to get there. Then, we'll further explore these questions with our panel of experts including Kate Davenport from The Recycling Partnership and Sandeep Bangaru from Eastman, moderated by SPC Director Olga Kachook. Register for the webinar 🔻 https://lnkd.in/gcjjc-M8 Closed Loop Partners, Eunomia Research & Consulting, Eastman Renew Solutions
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🇯🇵 The chemical industry plays a crucial role in modern life, providing key materials for healthcare, food packaging, and more. However, did you know that it is also the second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Japan, following the steel sector? Despite Japan's strong commitment to #NetZero, the path to decarbonisation for the chemical industry is particularly challenging due to the carbon content of many of its raw materials. The industry also faces broader #sustainability challenges, such as plastic pollution and biodiversity loss, which require careful action to avoid shifting the burden elsewhere. In 2022, the Center for Global Commons and #Systemiq proposed pathways to a net-zero future for the chemical industry, and we are delighted to see this work continue to drive impact with the publication of ‘Planet Positive Chemicals in Japan.’ This new study presents data-driven pathways for the Japanese chemical sector to achieve net-zero emissions for scope 1, 2, and 3, through strategies that consider Japan’s unique strengths and weaknesses and propose a future role for the industry. 🌎 These insights could inspire similar transformations in other countries and regions facing comparable challenges. ▶️ Read the full study: https://lnkd.in/g5RSH9ZP ▶️ Read the peer-reviewed academic paper on which the report is based: https://lnkd.in/eAJnzENv Naoko Ishii, Daisuke Kanazawa, Yasunori Kikuchi - The University of Tokyo; Prof. Dr. Martin R. Stuchtey, Eveline Speelman, Sophie Herrmann, Alexandre Kremer, Andreas Wagner, Jane Leung, Peter Goult, Min Guan, Shajeeshan Lingeswaran, Pim Sauter Acknowledgements: Masahiko Matsukata, Waseda University Yuko Oshita, The University of Tokyo Wu Wenchao, Japan International Research Center For Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS) This research was funded by Mitsubishi Chemical Group. #ClimateChange #Sustainability #GreenTransition #PlanetPositive #Biodiversity #PlasticPollution
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During Climate Week, Patricia Ellen da Silva, partner at Systemiq Ltd., also took part in the event "Building the New Climate Economy: Catalyzing Private Sector Innovation and Finance for Climate Champions." This event, organized by the B20 Finance and Infrastructure Task Force with technical support from Systemiq in collaboration with the Sustainable Markets Initiative, was held during New York’s Climate Week. The event brought together over 50 senior executives from major global companies, including leaders like Luciana Antonini Ribeiro, Chair of the B20 Finance and Infrastructure Task Force, and Karen Fang, Co-Chair, alongside representatives from companies such as BlackRock, Climeworks, and Raízen. It provided a platform to discuss the task force's recommendations with an international audience and to explore the essential role the private sector plays in driving innovation and investments needed to tackle climate challenges. Through strategic partnerships and concrete actions, we can accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable and prosperous future. #GreenEconomy #SustainableInnovation #ClimateWeekNYC #B20 _______________________________________________________________ Durante a Climate Week, Patricia Ellen da Silva, sócia da Systemiq Ltd. também participou do evento "Construindo a Nova Economia Climática: Catalisando Inovação e Financiamento do Setor Privado para os Campeões do Clima", organizado pela Força-Tarefa de Finanças e Infraestrutura do B20, com apoio técnico da Systemiq, em parceria com o Sustainable Markets Initiative, durante a Semana do Clima em Nova York. O evento reuniu mais de 50 executivos seniores de grandes empresas globais, incluindo líderes como Luciana Antonini Ribeiro presidente da Força-Tarefa de Finanças e Infraestrutura do B20, e Karen Fang, co-presidente, além de representantes de empresas como BlackRock, Climeworks e Raízen . Foi uma oportunidade para debater as recomendações da força-tarefa diante de uma audiência internacional, além de discutir o papel essencial do setor privado em impulsionar a inovação e os investimentos necessários para enfrentar os desafios climáticos. Por meio de parcerias estratégicas e ações concretas, podemos acelerar a construção de um futuro mais sustentável e próspero.