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I appreciate the spirit of this, but how can a business pull this off. Seems like this would be hard as fuck to sum up. Fricking everything emits carbon.
Edit: I’m not trying to be a nay sayer. I’m honestly curious about how a business does this. Functionally, who do you need to hire, what processes need to be implemented, how do you work with vendors, are there short hand numbers that you can use to guesstimate output, is guesstimating even ok, etc?
It is not easy but mostly takes time and acutal bookkeeping. Any honest business can do it. But yes all activities generate emissions.
Sounds like job creation to me
I wouldn't mind more public jobs and data on which companies to try to avoid. If emissions finally effect a companies bottom line, there is incentive to minimize them.
Apple already does it.
Yeah, that’s pretty cool. I’m more curious about the nitty gritty details of how you actually pull this off as a business. AKA, the teams, processes, and governance that you need to put into place.
Does anyone here have any experience with that? I’m genuinely curious about how this works.
The way companies do it is a lot of napkin math. I worked next to a team that built a service to help other companies figure this out (I provided the sample code and docs they share with customers for onboarding). You plug in some basic info, as an example this building used X kilowatt hours of electricity that the power company says is 10% coal and 90% hydro, which, based on a lookup table that means Y tons of CO2 emissions per hour, add X*Y to your total and move onto the next building. It’s not an exact science measuring actual emissions, more looking for ballpark numbers trying to get rough estimates based on what sustainability consortiums agree is the emission rates for certain things/activities/events. It doesn’t matter if your X is slightly more efficient than your neighbors X, because your maintenance guy is better, both will get the “X” rate for emissions based on the agreed upon value for the thing being measured. The idea is to capture as many things/activities/events as possible to get an estimate of emissions, not a measurement.
There are a lot of internationally recognized calculations and reporting methods and companies can hire consultants who can estimate the emissions in their end to end supply chains.
There are also calculators online that can give an example on what elements are considered, e.g. the below from UN.
https://unfccc.int/documents/271269