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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Aug 16, 2023

Sanchali Pal, Founder and CEO of Commons, discusses building an app to help consumers make climate-friendly purchasing decisions, tracking carbon footprint, utilizing location data, pricing, fundraising, and exploring the market for green energy.

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Sanchali Pal

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Consumer choices have a significant impact on global emissions, making it crucial to support companies that take responsibility for their emissions and business practices.

Commons app enables users to track and offset the carbon emissions of their purchases, offering guidance to buy more sustainable products and curating a portfolio of offsets aligned with the Oxford Offsetting Principles.

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Consumer Choices Influence Global Emissions

Supporting companies that take responsibility for their emissions and business practices is crucial since consumer choices influence over 65% of global emissions.

Introduction

2min

Creating an App for Tracking Climate Impact

16min

Tracking and Analyzing Carbon Footprint

5min

Utilizing Location Data, Executive Education Program, Story Collider Podcast, and Carbon Offsets

5min

Pricing, Long Duration Credits, and Iterative Processes

9min

Exploring the Market for Green Energy and Consumer Options

2min

Fundraising Basics and Startup Growth

8min

Today’s episode in our corporate net zero climate series features HBS alumna Sanchali Pal, Founder and CEO of Commons, an app created to help consumers make more climate-friendly purchasing decisions. Sanchali discusses why she chose an entrepreneurial pathway out of busine---ss school and what inspired her to focus on the power of consumers to drive corporate climate action. She also talks about building a startup and raising funds and offers advice for those seeking to work in business and climate change.

For transcripts and other resources, visit climaterising.org

Climate Rising Host: Professor Mike Toffel, Faculty Chair, Business & Environment Initiative

Guest: Sanchali Pal, Founder and CEO of Commons

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Climate Rising

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Consumer Choices Influence Global Emissions

Creating an App to Help Make Climate-Friendly Purchasing Decisions

Importance of Data Gathering for Carbon Footprint Estimation

Offsetting Carbon Emissions and Recognizing Sustainable Companies

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts