Move over, carbon footprint: Why organisations need to examine their climate shadow

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Move over, carbon footprint: Why organisations need to examine their climate shadow

Carbon footprinting exercises do not always provide an accurate representation of an organisation’s true impact on the world, writes RSK's Stephanie Wray

The ‘climate shadow' is a concept coined by writer and climate journalist Emma Pattee to better understand the impact a person has on the climate emergency. In her work, she poses the question of whether...

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