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A Game Plan for Funding Carbon Offsets
by Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna, and Marc Roston

We need a feasible market solution to mitigate the long-term consequences of today’s carbon emissions. The use of financial instruments such as perpetual bonds can make considerable quantities of capital available to offset producers, spurring the production and the creation of spot markets in offsets that can definitively and reliably be offset against emissions. This article explores these ideas in further detail.

Harvard Business Review

June 2023

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Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain
by Robert S. Kaplan and Shirley Lu

Our co-founder, Professor Robert Kaplan, and Shirley Lu (Harvard) co-authored a teachable case study describing Harvard University’s consideration to decarbonize its supply chain by replacing cement with a low-carbon substitute. The case illustrates the flow of emissions along a simple supply chain, from the manufacturing of the substitute to concrete production to Harvard University’s construction project.

Harvard Business Review

May 2023

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Getting a Clearer View of Your Company’s Carbon Footprint
by Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna, and Stefan J. Reichelstein

E-liability accounting will help customers factor in a product’s environmental footprint into their purchasing decisions and will help create a competition dynamic that leads to reduced carbon outputs. Two pilot studies by an Asian tire manufacturer and a German cement producer illustrate how the E-liability methodology can do this.

Harvard Business Review

April 2023

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Getting Real about Measuring Environmental Impact 
with Karthik Ramanna

Our co-founder, Professor Karthik Ramanna, was interviewed on the Oxford Policy Pod about the issues with current approaches to environmental reporting and the advantages of E-liability as an auditable and verifiable accounting system.

Oxford Policy Pod

January 2023

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Greening Up Tire Manufacturing: Giti Featured at G20 for Pilot of E-Liability

At the G20 Summit in Indonesia, Giti Tire, one of the Institute’s first pilot partners, was featured as a frontier company implementing the E-liability method to proactively improve its carbon accounting practices and decarbonize tire manufacturing processes. The pilot focused on high-impact areas like tire compounding and curing, providing clear insights into Giti Tire’s supply chain emissions and uncovering opportunities to reduce its carbon footprint.

Giti Tire

December 2022

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Karthik Ramanna Launches E-liability Institute to Encourage Rigorous Carbon Accounting Worldwide
by University of Oxford

In 2022, our co-founders Karthik Ramanna and Robert Kaplan launched the E-ledgers Institute to promote the adoption of real-time, auditable emissions accounting. The Institute supports pilot projects, provides technical guidance on the E-ledgers methodology, and helps advance emissions-accounting practices across sectors.

University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government

November 2022

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We Need Better Carbon Accounting. Here’s How to Get There.
by Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna

Our second HBR article explores how E-liability addresses current shortfalls in measuring and reducing carbon emissions in complex supply chains. It demonstrates how we can use E-liability to identify value-creating opportunities to streamline production practices and energy use, resulting in cleaner and more competitive goods.

Harvard Business Review

April 2022

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A Smarter Way to Measure GHG Emissions?

The Winners of the HBR McKinsey Award Explain.

“Accounting for Climate Change,” the first Harvard Business Review (HBR) article written by our co-founders introducing the E-liability accounting method, went on to win the 2022 HBR-McKinsey Award for “groundbreaking management thinking”, which in turn kicked off a series of pilot adoptions of the method by organizations around the world. This McKinsey piece highlights how their winning article proposes a breakthrough approach to measuring greenhouse gas emissions, using foundational cost accounting logic to assign emissions individual products across supply chains.

McKinsey & Company

April 2022

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