Roland is the Managing Partner of FutureCamp. He works on climate and energy for 25 years. Within his contribution, he gave us an insight into how organisations, especially corporates become climate neutral. He focused on the „analog world“ first: on actual developments in the EU and Germany and especially on carbon pricing.

Activities within energy-intensive industries are faced with huge challenges and service sectors increasingly reflect this. This includes hints on data and data management needed – from the view of corporates covered by a lot of regulation that changes very dynamically. In parallel, technological changes are on the way and start to become visible – in sectors such as steel, chemicals, building materials and so on with innovation cycles far longer than those in the digital sphere. To deal with this and the growing ambition of society, politicians, and customers is not easy – many things he discussed in the panel thereafter on which role the digital sphere might play on sustainability and especially „carbon management“.