Carbon management is information management
3 Jul 2009
For most businesses today, sophisticated carbon management is simply not possible.
At best, gathering, assessing, and analysing the necessary information is a considerable challenge. In some areas, such as measuring actual product-level footprints, it is practically impossible.
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