WE CAN MAKE A SUCCESS OF THE CARBON TRANSITION TOGETHER
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Three decades after Kyoto, we still lack the information needed to make informed decisions between equivalent products or financing options : what is their impact on the transition?
– How much greenhouse gas emissions are involved in a purchase, its carbon content ?
– What variation in emissions will cause financing, its carbon gain?
Carbon Economy calculates these measures rigorously using cumulative carbon accounting, which is governed by current scientific and accounting standards.
he rapid deployment of best practices now enables the transition to be completed.
Communicating the carbon impact of what we offer and promoting those who do it
Transmission Label is the name of this best practice.
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The carbon impact of the product is its carbon content
: the cumulative greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere required to produce the product until it is transferred to the customer (“carbon content” encompasses equivalent terms: product footprint, cumulative “cradle-to-customer” emissions in life cycle analysis, upstream Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions in carbon protocols, etc.).
The interest rate on a loan is the percentage of monetary value that it adds (or costs) in addition to or less than the initial monetary value of the loan.
Carbon Economics improves financing decisions with a second piece of information: its carbon interest rate. This is the percentage of carbon that the financing will add to or subtract from the carbon content of what is being financed.