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10. Tax Ourselves? Why Companies and Institutions Are Pricing Their Own Emissions

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Then There's Scope Two, Indirect Omissions

H and m focuses its decarbonization investments at factories that produce their materials exactly. So like a factory burning coal to make steel, for example, or a person driving their own car. Then scope too is indirect omissions such as your organization buying electricity from another organization that's burning fossil fuels. And finally, there's scope three, up stream or down stream omissions, your suppliers, employees or customers burning fossil fuels or emitting other greenhouse gases. For example, at yale, a big source of scope three omissions is air travel by yale faculty staff and students,. It's also the carbon omitted to make computers we buy and the bricks we use to build.

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