Adam Klauber

Chief Sustainability Officer, World Energy · 1 appearance on the record.

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Adam Klauber is Chief Sustainability Officer at World Energy, overseeing sustainable operations and digital environmental attribute accounting. He previously led the sustainable aviation team at Rocky Mountain Institute, where he co-founded the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance and helped architect the sustainable aviation fuel certificate framework.

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The record, in short

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Assertion Supported

Klauber: RMI RFP allows two-thirds of green steel procurement via book-and-claim

“They have got the Steel Buyers platform and there's an RFP. It's actually live right now. And in a month or so the proposals will be due, and that's to buy over a million tons of steel per annum equivalent of green steel and two-thirds of that actually can be …”

Adam Klauber Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 32:21 Scaling low-carbon products with book and claim systems

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Klauber: Microsoft cannot hit 2030 net-zero targets without book and claim

“Even if there's tremendous uptake, a company like Microsoft who wants to get to net zero by 2030 simply will not be able to do this without Book and Claim.”

Adam Klauber Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 35:26 Scaling low-carbon products with book and claim systems

Assertion Supported

Klauber: RMI RFP allows two-thirds of green steel procurement via book-and-claim

Adam Klauber Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 32:21 Scaling low-carbon products with book and claim systems

Opinion

Klauber: Expiration dates on book and claim systems threaten project finance

“Some of these same nonprofits that are well-intentioned think that it might be better to create an end date, an expiration date for book and claim. Or when there's a certain market penetration, book and claim is no longer valid because of the concerns from REC…”

Adam Klauber Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 34:27 Scaling low-carbon products with book and claim systems

Insight

Klauber: Book and claim enables targeted ownership impossible via mass balance

“So very much the case that booking claim allows for a specific targeted ownership that is otherwise unavailable with a mass balance system.”

Adam Klauber Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 9:33 Scaling low-carbon products with book and claim systems

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Klauber: Uncertified SAF barge was priced at half of certified SAF

“There was a barge that sat off of the coast of California that was uncertified SAF. And every, all our customers said, hey, there's a great deal on SAF. We're not sure we should buy it because we don't know where it's coming from, and it happens to be about ha…”

Adam Klauber Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 16:40 Scaling low-carbon products with book and claim systems

Insight

Klauber: Materials book and claim requires overhaul of Environmental Product Declarations

“With steel and concrete and chemicals, you have environmental product declarations, EPDs, and those often well, they always have the climate claims on them, and so if the EPDs are delivered, now we almost need a modified EPD that says you're getting all these …”

Adam Klauber Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 22:16 Scaling low-carbon products with book and claim systems

Assertion Supported

Klauber: Businesses generate over one-third of total aviation emissions

“25% of passengers are business travelers. Over one-third of the emissions come from businesses because they're almost all of the cargo emissions, and Business travelers tend to fly in, in larger seating, which is a larger part of the footprint of the air aircr…”

Adam Klauber Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 26:11 Scaling low-carbon products with book and claim systems

Assertion Supported

Klauber: ZEMBA second maritime fuel procurement targets nearly 500,000 tons of emissions

“The Zemba group, which I mentioned, the Buyer's Alliance they have done one procurement so far, and Hapic Lloyd won that procurement. They had requirements on emissions reductions, had to get 90% or better on a life cycle basis, so it ended up being RNG. And s…”

Adam Klauber Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 30:03 Scaling low-carbon products with book and claim systems

Assertion Supported

Klauber: Maritime fuel scaling is harder than SAF due to multiple engine specs

“One of the differences between aviation and shipping is that with aviation fuels, you've got a drop in solution, right? So any staff that meets the spec can go into any aircraft, and that's not the case with shipping. They've got something called, they like to…”

Adam Klauber Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 30:58 Scaling low-carbon products with book and claim systems

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Scaling low-carbon products with book and claim systems	Dec 19, 2024	18m

Adam Klauber

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