Eurogas Lets Meet! Emissions reporting market-based instruments & the GHG protocol: Focus on Renewable Gases

In the context of the draft GHG Protocol Land Sector and Removals Guidance proposed in 2022, this online event on 9 November 2023 focused on the question of how to address market-based instruments and emissions reporting when using biomethane and other renewable gases.

Eurogas Events
09.11.2023

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Programme
Programme
14:30 - 14:45

Welcome by the moderator

Speakers

Victor Bernabeu

Director, Eurogas
14:45 - 15:00

Keyote speech

Speakers

Pankaj Bhatia

Global Director of GHG Protocol, World Resources Institute
Biography
Pankaj Bhatia
Global Director of GHG Protocol, World Resources Institute

Pankaj Bhatia is the Global Director of GHG Protocol at the World Resources Institute. Pankaj is one of the leading experts and authority on the GHG Protocol standards and tools, particularly in the areas of corporate, scope 3, mitigation action, and city accounting. He launched and led the three-year global process that involved more than 2,300 stakeholders to develop the GHG Protocol Scope 3 and Product Standards released in October 2011. He led GHG Protocol teams to develop new global standards for mitigation goals, policies, and actions, for the agriculture sector and cities, and to implement new GHG programs in key major economies including China, India, and Brazil. From 1998 to 2000, he was Vice President of Tata Energy & Resources Institute, a not-for-profit research organization based in Virginia and affiliated with The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India. He holds a Master’s in process engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and a Bachelor’s in chemical engineering from the India Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

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15:00 - 15:45

Discussion with

Speakers

Cédric Jourdain

Project Officer, CMA CGM

Karlijn Arts

Global Head of Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs, OCI
Biography
Karlijn Arts
Global Head of Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs, OCI

In the last decade Karlijn Arts made it her sole purpose to accelerate the energy transition
by working on solutions which enable our transition from a fossil based society to a
biogenic- and circular one. Throughout these years she has been developing new
renewable energy sources, contributed to the creation of green regulations and enabled
the scale-up of the sustainable aviation fuel sector. Currently, she has embarked upon the
journey to make the chemical sector more sustainable by leading the sustainability and
regulatory affairs efforts for the Methanol Group at OCI.
She is an expert in renewable energy policies, sustainable transport regulation, carbon
accounting methodologies, sustainability certification, supply chain decarbonization
technologies and sustainable feedstock sourcing strategies.

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Nic Crowe

Government Affairs & Development Director, Grissan Renewable Energy

Ryota Kuzuki

Division Head of International Certification and Standards Harmonization, Planning Department, Japan Gas Association
Biography
Ryota Kuzuki
Division Head of International Certification and Standards Harmonization, Planning Department, Japan Gas Association

Ryota Kuzuki’s business career began in 1989 when he joined Tokyo Gas Co.,Ltd. As a precision mechanical engineer, he was mainly responsible for improving safety in gas distribution, including gas valves and flexible fittings equipped with gas leak detection and prevention measures. Subsequently, he worked in the corporate planning department and in the market development section of the commercial and industrial sector. Ryota has about 25 years of experience in engineering related to city gas utilization.

Along with his carrier, Ryota Kuzuki completed a master’s degree in precision mechanical engineering at the University of Tokyo in 1989, and a Ph. D degree at Keio University in 2011 in research on the evaluation of non-energy benefits such as energy security, environmental protection of integrated district energy systems.
Ryota Kuzuki also has experience as a secretariat for international conferences in industry, academia, and government. For example, he was Secretary of the International Gas Union’s Long-Term Energy Scenarios Study Group from 1995 to 1999 and Deputy Secretary General of the World Sustainable Building Conference 2005 Tokyo (SB05Tokyo) from 2003 to 2005.

In 2017, Ryota Kuzuki was assigned as Senior Manager of the Energy System Planning Department of the Japan Gas Association, mainly responsible for promoting integrated regional energy systems.
Since 2022, Ryota Kuzuki has been in his current position, responsible for establishing certificate schemes for e-methane and biomethane and involved in international GHG accounting rules harmonization in order to promote carbon neutrality in city gas supply with approximately 200 member companies in whole Japan.

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15:45 - 16:00

Q&A Closing remarks

Speakers

Victor Bernabeu

Director, Eurogas
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