Deep reading corporate green marketing to make more climate positive choices. Based in Oakland, CA. Dislikes red skies and greenwashing.
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A must read on the state of decarbonization from @NatBullard. Reminiscent of Mary Meeker's annual internet trends reports. nathanielbullard.com/present…
Can ESG overcome its potentially fatal flaw?
On criticisms of #esg and its performance as the flagship product for sustainable investing.
paraclimate.com/esg-is-under…
#sustainability #sustainablefinance #carbon #climate #DataScience
How bad are carbon ratings standards? A paper from MIT/U of Zurich finds only a 0.13 correlation between scores from major ratings agencies for firm #GHG emissions. @FT breaks it down. ft.com/content/e84a6f9a-7861…
Everyone loves to hate #carbonaccounting. Here's why you shouldn't. #sustainability #ESG #carbonemissions
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Reaction to rising electric bills: "It makes me glad I don’t have an electric car, which I’d love to have,"..."People don’t have infinitely expendable income.”
Wha??? #gasprices #ClimateCrisis
wsj.com/articles/why-your-el…
Magic Kingdom or Magical Thinking? (1 of 3)
Disney 2021 sustainability report
HIGHS
- 212MW of solar to supply 40% of Walt Disney World electricity
- Reduced emissions 50% from 2012 (incl. credits)
LOWS
- No Scope 3 data...contd
#esg #sustainability
impact.disney.com/app/upload…
Magic Kingdom or Magical Thinking? (2 of 3)
LOWS (contd)
- 7 lines of text about supplier engagement vs. 1% of suppliers engaged
- <10% of energy from clean sources
- Using GWh instead of MW to describe a solar canopy under construction because it looks bigger
If you haven't paid attention recently, you may not have seen the massive plans for battery #energystorage this year and beyond. It's happening!
#CleanEnergy #247CFE #sustainability
paraclimate.com/energy-stora…
Google is on uncharted ground as it pursues 100% carbon free energy. Luckily, $135B buys plenty of bulldozers.
#sustainability #247cfe #carbonneutral bloomberg.com/news/features/…
#ESG needs an upgrade. Why not this?
1) require public companies to report audited impact data
2) make data highly visible in labels, ads, ...
3) regulate usage of terms like “net-zero”
4) set clear standards for scope 3
5) aim for 100% carbon free energy
#sustainability
Carbon is for Companies retweeted
With net-zero pledges with no Scope 3 emissions, 100% Renewable Energy plans that are unbundled and/or not time matched, and carbon offsets of dubious quality, we may be headed for a world where every company is "carbon neutral" and yet underlying emissions haven't changed much.
Included in Newsom's $37B budget is $1B for home #EnergyEfficiency and #electrification. $1B sounds like a big number, but consider that CA has 14MM housing units. Assuming heat pumps cost $5k per house, that covers only 200k homes, or 1.4% of housing.
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To produce new green packaging, Graphic invested $600MM into the first new paperboard production line built in the US in decades. Made possible by #ESG-minded investors. Trend or outlier? #sustainability
wsj.com/articles/can-paper-p…
If you are an entrepreneur or technologist that wants to support #decarbonisation, build a solution that supports 24/7 carbon-free electricity, a growing movement to fully decarbonize the grid backed by Google.
#247cfe #carbon #cleanenergy #sustainability paraclimate.com/24-7-carbon-…
New industry paper joins growing support for real-time tracking of #carbon emissions to #decarbonize our grid.
#beyondnetzero #247cfe #sustainability
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Can't recommend this book enough! Nice review of Electrify by @lloydalter on @Treehugger. It's practical, optimistic, and written for everyone (the book that is, but the review is good too). #carbon #sustainability
treehugger.com/electrify-boo…
Indirect #carbon emissions represent 85% of emissions from S&P100 companies, but are only fully reported by 44% of these companies. C'mon big companies, we can do better!
Interesting analysis of emissions reporting by @VincentManier: net0tracker.org/
#esg #sustainability
Great read for data geeks on the unrecognized/unsecuritized value of renewable energy by the time of day it was generated.
@kevalaanalytics and @wattcarbon are a few companies working on new analytics in the space.
#carbonaccounting
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Carbon Accounting sounds boring. Why not Carbon Intelligence? Here are the players in this booming corner of #climatetech.
Thanks to @climatetech_vc and @mcjpod
Includes @Envizi @watershed @climateneutral @PersefoniAI @normativeio
Read more here:
paraclimate.com/carbon-accou…
