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- How can the world reduce
emissions if we don't even have a

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commonly accepted method to measure them?

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That's about to change.

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We're here today to talk about

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an historic partnership between
the Greenhouse Gas Protocol

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and the International Organization
for Standardization, ISO.

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By coming together in
this new partnership,

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the organizations aim to
streamline emissions accounting

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for both private and public companies.

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Therefore, accelerating decarbonization.

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More importantly, greater consistency

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and comparability of emissions
data will unlock significant

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business value, helping
companies improve efficiency,

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reduce risk, and capture
opportunities in a rapidly changing

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business landscape.

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Geraldine, Sergio, it's
wonderful to be with you today.

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Can you explain why this
partnership, why now?

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- The work on measuring
greenhouse gases has been going on

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for a long time and it's progressing,

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but it has led to a lot of fragmentation,

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making life very difficult, both

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for the users, the preparers.

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What we are really trying to
do with this partnership is

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to finally bring some convergence,

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- And the beauty of this partnership is

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that we are combining our
talents and our strengths.

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The main objective

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of this partnership is about
contributing, supporting,

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and accelerating climate action.

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- By getting together, we really aiming

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to deliver jointly developed
co-branded standards

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that will cover three areas.

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It will cover the
corporate carbon footprint,

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product carbon footprint,

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and what is called project accounting

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or intervention accounting, leading to

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by combining standards, the ability

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to do much more meaningful verification.

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- Think about the young result, you know,

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what do we really want to
achieve at the end of the day?

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What does a standard really do,

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and how will we know if
we've been successful?

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- When we have good standards
with good guidelines

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of implementation, clarity, simplicity,

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people can spend a lot less time on the,

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how am I gonna measure
this to actually use it

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for decision making.

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- How do we think this
partnership is really gonna add

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value in the world?

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- The key element of this partnership is

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that we will provide
clarity through everyone

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to organizations, large corporation, SMEs,

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developed countries, developing
countries, government,

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everyone for one single standard

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combining the best of us.

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- We have put the
interests of the preparers

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and users of the data first.

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And thanks to your help, we were able

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to bring our organizations
together in a very ambitious way.

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We are genuinely gonna
rely on each other's work

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and on each other's strengths to go faster

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and be much more effective.

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- Thank you very much. I'm excited.

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We're enabling the future
here together. Very good.

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Thank you.