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Carbon reporting

From Gary Davis, co-founder and CEO of Edinburgh-based international environmental-monitoring specialist Ecometrica.

Carbon reporting

When it comes to climate change, no one has all the answers. But it’s by working together that we’ll have the best chance of making a positive difference.

We’re fortunate to be connected to some of the most brilliant people and organisations in the world. So we’ve been speaking to a range of experts in fields from science to business, to find out how they’re going about reaching net zero.

As part of an exclusive series of interviews for The Times we chatted with Gary Davis, co-founder and CEO of Edinburgh-based international environmental-monitoring specialist Ecometrica. As a taster for the full interview, here are five things we learned from Gary about how tech innovations like satellite tracking can help companies reduce their impact on the climate…

“Concentrate your efforts where emissions are greatest.100% accuracy isn’t essential; starting the ball rolling is.”
Gary Davis Co-founder and CEO of Ecometrica
You can’t manage a problem if you don’t know how big it is. So carbon reporting should be every company’s first step.
Your finance department probably collects much of the information you need to calculate your carbon emissions without even realising.
Concentrate your efforts where emissions are greatest. 100% accuracy isn’t essential; starting the ball rolling is.
Once you’re on the road to net zero, you may find that sources of investment to fund more efficient ways of working open up to you too.
Don’t be daunted. Generating 20% of grid electricity from renewables by 2020 looked impossible once. In fact we achieved 42.9% — and at far less cost than predicted.

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