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by kmanamcheri 1358 days ago
This is great, and looks like there is not many companies which do this so it fills a need. I have some questions :-

1. Can you provide an audit trail describe how you arrived at a given carbon footprint? For example, could you give me a report on which factors of a given product contribute the most to the carbon footprint?

2. Why is carbon footprint THE number to track for environment sustainability? Is a lower carbon footprint ALWAYS the better thing to do? What if a slightly higher carbon footprint allows me to be more sustainable.

3. Is your data license fee for every single query or per product? Does this mean you are data-mining/tracking clients use cases? What is your data privacy policy?

4. If my supermarket is selling Avocados, and I pay $0.99 to get the impact of it, why would I want to re-query this next year. Is the carbon footprint of a given Avocado going to change year over year?

5. Do you have a third-party consultants audit your data? In other words, how do I trust you are not paid for by Oatly milk company to push their products?