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Hello and good luck with your business.

There's been some discussion about the accuracy of environmental footprint calculators. In particular, there are concnerns that such calculations don't take into account the consequences of choices made to reduce one's footprint, which may end up increasing, rather than decreasing, emissions.

For a brief introduction see:

Environmental footprint calculators have one big flaw we need to talk about

https://theconversation.com/environmental-footprint-calculat...

And in particular some research cited in the article, like:

Using Attributional Life Cycle Assessment to Estimate Climate-Change Mitigation Benefits Misleads Policy Makers

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.12074

Is your company aware of this discussion? If so, what are your plans to address those concerns?




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