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Episode: OIES Podcast – Avoided Emissions in Carbon Accounting
Description: In this OIES podcast, Head of Carbon Management Research Hasan Muslemani speaks to Jazmin Mota about avoided emissions and their role in shaping credible, forward-looking climate strategies. The discussion defines avoided emissions as a comparative, system-level concept that estimates how much lower emissions could be relative to a realistic business-as-usual baseline, rather than emissions a company directly produces or offsets. The podcast clarifies how avoided emissions differ from reductions, removals, and offsets, positioning them as a measure of influence on wider systems rather than responsibility for past emissions. Using examples from energy and transport, the podcast shows how traditional...