California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law requiring big businesses to disclose emissions
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law requiring big businesses to disclose emissions
California will soon require big businesses to report a wide range of greenhouse gas emissions. California Gov.
Large businesses in California will have to disclose a wide range of planet-warming emissions under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Saturday — the most sweeping mandate of its kind in the nation.
The law requires more than 5,300 companies that operate in California and make more than $1 billion in annual revenues to report both their direct and indirect emissions. That includes things like emissions from operating a building or store as well as those from activities like employee business travel and transporting their products.
The law will bring more transparency to the public about how big businesses contribute to climate change, and it could nudge them to evaluate how they can reduce their emissions, advocates say. They argue many businesses already disclose some of their emissions to the state.
Seems like a big oil shill downvote bot army hit this comment section. Jfc.
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I’d be willing to bet a dairy farm makes more emissions than the fossil fuel industry under the math they are using. Recycle you guys…. Pshhh, we are fucked
I appreciate the spirit of this, but how can a business pull this off. Seems like this would be hard as fuck to sum up. Fricking everything emits carbon.
Edit: I’m not trying to be a nay sayer. I’m honestly curious about how a business does this. Functionally, who do you need to hire, what processes need to be implemented, how do you work with vendors, are there short hand numbers that you can use to guesstimate output, is guesstimating even ok, etc?
Apple already does it.