26 Aug 2018

Talanoa dialogue: The role of business in getting to net zero

Looking up through tall trees from ground level, thick trunks rise with green leafy canopies overhead and sunlight filtering through the branches.

Through these Talanoa Dialogues, we’ve developed the Imprinting Net Zero model. Through the seven parts of the model we will be able to scale net zero across the private sector globally.

Step One: To Carbon Neutrality infographic showing three steps: 1) Foot-print, 2) Tail-print, and 3) Hand-print with icons and example company names. — Imprinting Net Zero: How companies can help build a net zero economy, step 1.

Infographic titled Step Two: To a Net Zero Economy, with icons and text for Brain-Print, Blue-Print, Finger-Print, News-Print outlining strategies and examples. — Imprinting Net Zero: How companies can help build a net zero economy, Step 2.

Natural Capital Partners’ full report on its Talanoa Dialogues includes 10 recommendations for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to help accelerate private sector climate action. The report – Raising Ambition: The Role of Business in Getting to Net Zero – comes from the seven round-table discussions with 61 companies in six cities around the world.

Overview infographic titled About Our Talanoa Dialogues with a world map graphic, logos of partner companies on sides, and labeled global industries and themes. — About the Talanoa Dialogues

The Talanoa Dialogue was the UNFCCC's process of asking for private sector and civil society views on how to accelerate progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Having worked for the last 20 years to deliver solutions to companies to reduce carbon emissions, drive the growth of renewable energy and conserve forests and improve health and livelihoods for communities around the world, we focused our Talanoa Dialogue on the private sector and how it can accelerate the build of a net zero economy.

Here are the thoughts of some participants:

In February we held a webinar featuring speakers from Bettys & Taylors Group, ING, LinkedIn and PwC to hear more about the Imprinting Net Zero model: seven ways that companies are building a net zero economy.