[WalterBright]

Another crazy thing is requiring companies to document their "carbon footprint". Doing this will require an army of technicians and accountants, with every incentive to tilt the results into looking "green". And then what does one do with that number? Harangue the company about it?

Again, the simple, effective solution is just tax the carbon content in the fuel. If there's one thing the government does know how to do, it's tax things.

[abyssin]

Yesterday I read some part of a report made for a national company about their carbon footprint. They got an auditing firm to produce nice charts. Then they hired a communication agency to present the result to their employees. They literally wrote: “Don’t show this chart, we don’t want employees to lose motivation.” What the graph shows is that the main source of emissions for this company is their investments.