NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to scientist Katharine Hayhoe about Google’s new tools that help people choose to decrease their carbon footprint when it comes to taking an airplane trip. Source link
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Michael Short/Bloomberg via Getty Images Around a dozen Google engineers are helping Swedish start-up Normative to build a new carbon emissions tracker. The emission counting software is designed to help businesses calculate their environmental footprint. It does this by analyzing all the transactions in a company’s accounting systems, including energy bills, business travel, raw material purchases and many other small items that businesses would often ignore. “Essentially what gets measured… Source link
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More than 300 businesses and investors, including tech giants and major utilities, are calling on the Biden administration to set an ambitious climate-change goal that would cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030. That target would nearly double the U.S.’s previous commitment on emissions reduction and the time horizon would require dramatic changes in the power and transportation sectors and elsewhere throughout the economy, analysts say. … Source link
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