Where is your company with carbon emissions reporting?
We track our carbon emissions.
25% (3 votes)
We report our carbon emissions to a third party.
17% (2 votes)
We offset our climate emissions through a third party.
17% (2 votes)
We report our climate emissions through a CSR report.
8% (1 vote)
None of the above.
33% (4 votes)
Total votes: 12
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The obsessive focus of the "Sustainability" crowd on CO2-e, to the exclusion of virtually ANY OTHER significant metric, is troubling, and I believe a large part of why you are not getting better traction with the citizenry.
There is MUCH more to "sustainable" business behavior. As an professional with over 2o years in heavy EHS emissions management, I can tell you that Carbon is a rounding error in terms of impacts when compared (for example) to CHEMICALS. We use hundreds of thousands of them, few if any have been tested, they are far more pernicious, deletorious, and widespread than carbon.
How about trying to broaden your scope a little, and look beyond the CO2-e hype?
Jim,
Thanks so much for the comment. I agree that CO2e is but one piece of the sustainable business puzzle. I don't know that I agree that it is as small a piece as you say, but I could be wrong. It certainly is a good question that could lead to a story. We do try to expand our coverage beyond just CO2e emissions and look also at waste, energy use, sustainable agriculture and also chemicals. In fact, one of the trends we focused on in this year's Trendwatch issue focused on "Green" chemistry.
I would love to know what you think of it. And if you'd like the opportunity to write a full commentary on our site on the issue of focusing on CO2e, please feel free to contact me.
Thanks.
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