Category: Carbon Accounting

Emissions Reduction not just Reporting!

Last week I presented at the CAM-I quarterly meeting 11-13 September 2023 in Tyson’s Corner, VA.  I was thrilled to be joined by Professor Robert Kaplan (Harvard University) and Mike Mahoney (CEO E-Liability Institute) who co-presented with me and provided an overview of their E-liability methodology. We also celebrated CAM-I’s 50th anniversary, it was great to […]

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Supporting the Green Transition with Activity-Based Costing!

According to a recent IFAC report, only 24% of companies with plans to reduce or offset Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions factor in past or future expenses for implementing those plans. This suggests that 76% of companies are pretty much flying blind when it comes to the costs of executing plans to reduce emissions, we want […]

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Top 5 Higher Ed Financial Reports

I was thrilled to be invited to present at the 2022 Australian University Senior Finance Officers Group (AUSFOG) conference last week alongside Thomas King from Microsoft.  I was asked to present the reports that finance departments are actually using, so we took a look at 12 months of Power BI usage data to see which […]

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Combat Climate Change! – Cost + Carbon Accounting

Identify the most economical path to carbon emissions reductions! In order to combat climate change countries and companies around the world are all working on plans to reduce their emissions.  For the last decade, a number of companies have been voluntarily reporting their emissions, unfortunately the reporting hasn’t led to any significant reduction in emissions.  […]

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What is your University doing to combat Climate Change?

This is a rewrite of an old blog post with a specific focus on Higher Ed. At the end of the article is a link to a whitepaper discussing the prototype Carbon Accounting model implemented at Weber State University. Managing Environmental Issues and Mission The Problem – Every institution’s operations have an environmental impact.  There […]

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