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DOI	10.1038/s41467-021-26349-x
	Harmonizing corporate carbon footprints
	Klaaßen L.; Stoll C.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	2041-1723
卷号	12 期号:1
英文摘要	Global greenhouse gas emissions need to reach net-zero around mid-century to limit global warming to 1.5 °C. This decarbonization challenge has, inter alia, increased the political and societal pressure on companies to disclose their carbon footprints. As a response, numerous companies announced roadmaps to become carbon neutral or even negative. The first step on the journey towards carbon neutrality, however, is to quantify corporate emissions accurately. Current carbon accounting and reporting practices remain unsystematic and not comparable, particularly for emissions along the value chain (so-called scope 3). Here we present a framework to harmonize scope 3 emissions by accounting for reporting inconsistency, boundary incompleteness, and activity exclusion. In a case study of the tech sector, we find that corporate reports omit half of the total emissions. The framework we present may help companies, investors, and policy makers to identify and close the gaps in corporate carbon footprints. © 2021, The Author(s).
语种	英语
scopus关键词	carbon; carbon emission; carbon flux; carbon footprint; detection method; global warming; greenhouse gas; policy making; temperature effect; Article; carbon footprint; conceptual framework; greenhouse effect; greenhouse gas emission; policy; politics; social problem
来源期刊	Nature Communications
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/250598
作者单位	TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; Climate Finance and Policy Group, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States; TUM Center for Energy Markets, TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Klaaßen L.,Stoll C.. Harmonizing corporate carbon footprints[J],2021,12(1).
APA	Klaaßen L.,&Stoll C..(2021).Harmonizing corporate carbon footprints.Nature Communications,12(1).
MLA	Klaaßen L.,et al."Harmonizing corporate carbon footprints".Nature Communications 12.1(2021).