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The CO₂lumnist: Market versus location-based scope 2 emissions

Investors rely on data to make decisions on climate strategy, but emissions data can have smoke coming out of the ears of frustrated investors. In the third of a new series of columns taking a more light-hearted look at the issue, Robeco data scientist Thijs Markwat makes the case for paying more attention to scope 2.

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    Climate Data Scientist

Footnotes

1Purchased steam, heat, or cooling are also scope 2, but for this note we focus on electricity.
2The chart shows 1 + emissions as we needed to plot zero emission values on a log scale.

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