New research has found that efforts to reach net zero are being undermined by a number of carbon accounting schemes. Research led by academics from the University of Bath shows that multiple systems drive up costs and prevent well-meaning companies from effectively accounting for their carbon emissions, while creating loopholes that can be exploited by others.<\/p>\n
It also found that systems that count carbon geographically, within industry groupings or based on consumption or products are limited by allowing emissions to be outsourced from accounts, causing inaccuracies.<\/p>\n
The document also calls for and proposes a unified approach that would enable the linking of accounts, meaning that new circular economy processes could be properly reported. (Will McManus, University of Bath, more at phys.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New research has found that efforts to achieve net zero are being undermined by a range of carbon accounting systems. Research led by academics at the University of Bath shows that multiple systems increase costs and prevent well-meaning companies from effectively accounting for their carbon emissions, while creating loopholes that others can exploit. It also found that systems that count carbon geographically, in [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-udrzatelnost_uhlikova-neutralita"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}