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Carbon Copy - Greenhouse gases - Carbon Emissions - Climate crusade
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Fast Company
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December 1, 2007
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All right, you can stop giving Al Gore awards now. We get it: We need to reduce pollution. It's often said that what gets measured gets managed, so if we're going to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other climate-warming gases, we need to know exactly who's emitting what. A serious effort to address climate change will require most businesses to track and publicly disclose carbon emissions. That sound you just heard was 1,000 accountants moaning in unison. In a post-Sarbanes-Oxley world, another complex reporting requirement sounds like a royal pain in the financials.Yet some businesses--hundreds, actually--are already tracking and reporting their emissions, voluntarily. Are they hippie ...
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