Do companies tell the truth about their emissions?

GoCarbonTracker reads corporate climate reports and links every claim back to the document it came from.

Point it at a report. It turns disclosures into a graph you can question.

The open-source workspace, gct, is on GitHub under the MIT licence. It is an alpha release.

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Every claim on this graph traces to a report.

What GoCarbonTracker does

Sustainability reports are long PDFs. A company's emissions figures and targets end up scattered across them, often defined in one place and used in another.

GoCarbonTracker reads a report and pulls out each climate claim as a record: the figure or commitment, the entity it applies to, the year or target date, and the page it came from. Each record keeps its link to that page, so you can open the source and check the wording yourself.

Claims that share an entity, a base year or a target are connected. You can follow one commitment through the report instead of searching for it.

This is a research prototype. The worked example is Tata Motors' public disclosures, and the method is written up in a preprint. The source code is on GitHub under the MIT licence.

Questions or corrections: moka@gocarbontracker.net. Privacy. Impressum.

GoCarbonTracker

A research prototype that reads corporate climate reports and links every claim back to the document it came from.