I think what bothers me most is the 2060 ‘comittment’ under their own ‘methods’. Smells like abusing shady EAC/RECs or the carbon sequestration tech we keep hearing is bunk.

Theoretically if the scope 3 legislation across the world had teeth we’d see companies doing business with China having much higher than average emissions factors in their reports. Hopefully we’d see the market correct but not likely when oceans are hitting 101 and yet ‘climate talks are always challenging’ still.

The only thing I hope is that the insurance companies bring a reality check sooner rather than later.

If only these poor oil producers had some sort of half century or more lead to reap the benefits of their export advantage and diversify their interests. Won’t someone think of how unfair it is to ask them to change? /s

It’d be an uphill battle but if someone got into programming via free online courses they could build a resume via collaborating with projects on github. It’d be a way to prove skill without the diploma.

Advice goes the same for anything where you can build a portfolio to demonstrate competency, most people in industries just care about results. This could be photography, graphic design, a physical labor like wood working etc.

Sucks because you’d have to outlay time upfront before maybe getting payed though. Ymmv

Np I think the way the scopes are outlined is well meaning but man some of the terms and the balkanization of the industry’s terms has made things confusing.

Imo it’s the biggest reason we didn’t get more public pressure on this but science is hard so /shrug

I have expertise here and in my opinion I think this is fantastic. For those unaware, the scope 3 mentioned in the article is everything (all emissions from) upstream and downstream of your supply chain. If you make automotive engines that’s everything from pulling and refining steel to shipping it to you AND all of the dealerships carbon AND customers.

The reason imo this matters is that this is fucking hard. It’s hard because you need life cycle analysis and some of the tech is so advanced who knows when we’ll have the right emissions factors for them. Heck even the epa is 2 yrs behind on the egrid publications.

The other reason this is hard is that if your steel supplier doesn’t want to comply then, well, f you. But if you can make everyone report their scope 3s it will get everyone up to speed and cut out all the weird contract footsie with requesting your vendor comply and do green shit.

I work directly on scope 1+2 reporting. Good luck understanding all the nuance in your ESG role. I’m loving being in sustainability too.