From Strategy to Action: Building a Credible Carbon Removal Portfolio

By Invitation Only

Date and Time

July 24, 2025
11:00 am-12:00 pm EDT

Location

Webinar

By invitation only.

As carbon removal becomes an essential part of achieving net-zero targets—and a strategic move to build resilience, demonstrate climate leadership, and stay ahead of evolving expectations—companies face important questions about how to take action in a credible, efficient, and scalable way. With a growing variety of nature-based and technology-based solutions, choosing the right approach, suppliers, or combination is rarely straightforward.

In this final session of our three-part series, we’ll explore how companies can build science-based, cost-effective carbon removal portfolios. Whether you're considering your first carbon removal purchases or looking to scale an existing strategy, this session will offer practical guidance to help you move forward with clarity and confidence.

BSR members interested in participating can reach out to hello@bsr.org for an invitation.

Agenda:

1. Designing a Carbon Removal Portfolio: Principles, Levers, and Trade-Offs
2. From Theory to Practice: How Businesses Can Act with Confidence
3. Peer Insight: How a Software Solutions Company Built a Tailored Carbon Removal Portfolio
4. Interactive Q/A

Scheduled Speakers

• Lara Birkes, Managing Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
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Lara Birkes
Managing Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
San Francisco
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Lara is responsible for leading BSR's Climate and Nature team globally and driving the organization’s work with Member companies' impact consulting, grants, and collaborative initiatives.  
Lara is a sustainability and policy professional with over fifteen years of experience managing partnerships, sustainability initiatives and policy engagement with companies, international organizations, governments, and NGOs.  
Prior to BSR, Lara was Global Head of Sustainability at Sonder, joining in 2020 to establish the corporate responsibility function, implementing policies to engrain responsible business practices across the company pre to post IPO. 
She also serves on the Advisory Board of EQX Biome, a start-up working to mobilize financial markets to protect the world’s remaining biodiversity hotspots. In 2024 Lara started hosting a web series & podcast called Nature IS to raise awareness of the critical need for protection, conservation, and regeneration of biodiversity.  
Lara holds a B.S. degree in International Business & Management from the University of Montana, a M.A. degree in International Trade Policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California and is a World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellow.  
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Recent Insights From Lara Birkes
• Climate and Nature Integration 101: In Conversation with Helen Crowley / April 24, 2025 / Blog
• Integrating Climate and Nature: A Dual Approach to Business Resilience / December 5, 2024 / Blog
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