Carbon Emission Calculation Is Hard and Expensive, but Tech Firms Think They Have a Solution
After spending nearly half a year, every year, gathering and calculating carbon emissions data on spread sheets, Salesforce.com's climate team was fed up. So in 2017 they built an app to crunch the numbers - and now they sell it for $4,000 (roughly Rs. 3 lakh) a month.As global companies prepare pledges to help stop climate change, one of the first problems they face is quantifying their emissions. The second is understanding if their solutions work.That need is fuelling a boom in carbon accounting software by big…