Chasing Carbon: The Story of CarbonGraph by Sam Anderson
The world needs to reach carbon neutrality, but the carbon footprint of most consumer products remains unknown. CarbonGraph is a new digital platform that measures the carbon footprint of products and their supply chains.
The world is at a tipping point The curtain is closing on humanity’s chances of avoiding significant glo-
bal impacts due to our greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC 2018). For many environmental experts, the climate disas-
ter is an inevitability that most people have yet to realise is already happening.
Yet, I believe that humanity will mount
a collective response to the threat of environmental destruction. We won’t
avoid widespread ecosystem loss, human tragedy and economic turmoil, but
we will ultimately weather the storm and emerge with systems that allow
us to better protect the natural world and its most vulnerable populations. I was born in 1995, so I have never lived in
a world without the scientific consensus that human greenhouse gas emissions
would lead to the widespread destabiliImage credit: CarbonGraph, www.carbongraph.io.
sation of natural systems within our lifetimes. It took until 2015, when the Paris
Agreement was signed, for decisive action on climate to become the governmental norm. It took until 2018 for me to reali-
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