A corporate carbon footprint is never just an accounting figure. It maps onto real ecosystems. Before a product leaves the factory gate, something on the ground has already paid the cost. A forest has been converted. A river has been depleted. A patch of savannah that was once home to dozens of species now grows a single crop in every direction.
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For most companies, the largest figure in the carbon inventory is not the office, the vehicle fleet, or the electricity bill. It sits upstream, in the goods and materials a business buys to make and sell its products. These purchased inputs form the bulk of a company’s Scope 3 emissions, which routinely exceeds everything the business controls directly, and can add up to 90% of their global footprint.
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