Abstract
Today governments, CEOs, and investors are prioritizing the transformation of their organizations to net zero or positive. They assess, adopt, and report the CO2e savings of carbon-neutralizing project initiatives according to international sustainability standards. Yet surveys show most reporting organizations do not measure 70-90% of their carbon emissions today. The root cause is opacity in their inbound and outbound supply chains. Adoption of innovations such as smart blockchain-based platforms for supply chain ESG traceability can close this glaring measurement loophole by enabling organizations to get actual measurements of their carbon spend. Will executives be more fearful of their corrected sustainability results, given a new capability for comprehensive and accurate CO2e measurements, or the dire consequences of a warmer planet?