The Greenhouse Gas Protocol sets the standard for greenhouse gas accounting. It divides the scope of a company’s emissions into three categories. Scope 1 and scope 2 are easy for most people to understand and relatively easy to measure. But scope 3 emissions can be more confusing. They are a challenge for the companies trying to inventory their own impacts […]
Climate science is complicated, and it only gets worse when you start trying to measure emissions and their impacts. But understanding the vocabulary can go a long way towards making sense of a confusing subject. As you move deeper into your studies of climate impacts, you’re likely to see the term “scope” used to classify greenhouse gas emissions from commercial […]
Despite our best intentions, everything we do has some environmental impact. Even though true sustainability may be out of reach, environmentalism is about making trade-offs to minimize the harm that comes from our actions. Since our world is made up of complex systems, it isn’t always easy to figure out which choices have the best environmental outcomes. Sometimes, choice that […]