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New Framework Challenges Traditional Carbon Accounting Methods for Corporate Supply Chains

A groundbreaking study introduces a dual-metric framework for calculating corporate supply chain emissions that could reshape climate strategies. The method combines expenditure and quantity data to identify overlooked emission hotspots in organizational purchasing.

Rethinking Corporate Carbon Accounting

Researchers have developed a novel heuristic framework for estimating indirect supply chain emissions that challenges conventional carbon accounting methods, according to recent reports in Scientific Reports. The approach, which analyzes both expenditure and physical quantity data, suggests significantly different emission reduction priorities compared to the widely-used expenditure-based method currently dominating corporate sustainability reporting.