How 'Scope 4' emissions can help and hinder sustainability efforts

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How 'Scope 4' emissions can help and hinder sustainability efforts

Companies seeking to report 'avoided emissions' will need to tread carefully through the greenwash minefield

How do you measure something that never existed? Companies may soon be posing this Zen koan to address the emerging accounting concept called Scope 4. It refers to "avoided emissions" of the greenhouse...

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