More big names added to carbon accounting advisory board

Shell and BASF employees among latest appointed to help shape product-level framework

Employees from Shell, BASF and ERM have been added to an influential new body developing product-level carbon accounting rules. 

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and newly-founded initiative Carbon Measures named 11 more members to their advisory group on Monday. 

They include Alex Cantlay, the head of carbon insights for oil major Shell; Peter Saling, the director of sustainability methods at chemicals firm BASF; and Braulio Pikman an advisor at environmental consultancy ERM. 

Vijay Swarup, who recently retired as ExxonMobil’s director of climate strategy and technology, has also joined the panel, alongside Jon Creyts, the CEO of RMI (formerly the Rocky Mountain Institute). 

There are also employees from the Australian government, UNESCO and the Regional Pacific Nationally Determined Contributions Hub among the new cohort, as well as the former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

They’ll join 10 members announced in January, including Microsoft’s head of sustainability science and innovation, Amy Luers; Bayer’s head of engineering and technology, Armin Knors; and the chief financial officer of Tata Steel Group, Koushik Chatterjee.  

Carbon Measures and ICC stressed that all advisors were appointed in their personal capacities. 

“The panel will leverage its broad expertise to develop a timely, accurate and verifiable carbon emissions accounting system that generates product-level emissions data, functions across global value chains, and supports real-world decision-making by companies, policymakers and markets alike,” the pair said in a statement. 

Work will kick off next month, with a view to producing a report on the landscape for product-level carbon accounting – including corporate needs and existing frameworks, standards and policies – by the end of the summer.