How – CostCarbon

Systems approaches, tools, mechanisms and templates will be added progressively. Some underway include:

The Carbon Thermostat
The Readiness Indicator Framework
Network Governance application
GDP:GDU consumption efficiency calculator
Emile work book for practical change.

How can a universally coherent system be enabled at the pace and scale necessary to address our grand challenges?

The real hierarchy of dependencies is a first principles approach from the ground upwards. What are the definitions, boundaries and metrics that are needed for a fast, coherent transition? What does the planet depend upon? What do we depend upon?

Increased storms. Bigger floods. Longer droughts. Significant change in climate and weather patterns across the globe will have a dramatic impact on how we all are able to live and prosper on Planet Earth.

The magnitude of the current climate change issues and how humanity can re-tool for the future can be overwhelming. Many people – aware of the need for change and action – are struggling to find a clear and practical way to implement and live the changes that are needed to reduce the rate of climate change.

CostCarbon offers a methodology that builds upon the structure of our current economic and consumption model, and allows transparency in the extent of carbon produced in the full life-cycle of all goods and services. This empowers all consumers to be aware of the full climate impact of purchasing decisions, not merely existing financial impacts. People will be able to identify and tailor their personal economic activities to minimise climate change, and also demand that governments and businesses do so as well, and provide electoral and consumer pressure for real change to occur.

CostCarbon, a costing mechanism that runs parallel to our financial systems, and uses carbon as a ‘shadow currency’ that reveals the true cost of consumer decisions.

What are the social, business, economic, political dependencies and priorities that are needed for a functioning and resilient democracy?

Change
Change has two parents; imposed from above and initiated from below, in shaping social change.

Imposition from governments, corporations and increasingly natural forces such as warming, fire and floods offer little opportunity for collaborative public engagement or influence.

Initiation from grassroots, social communities and voluntarily adopted new practices, enables change aligned to common motives and shared values. Imbalance between these approaches leads to friction, waste time and effort.

The concept and practice of Network Governance where each and every stakeholder withing supply/value chains abide by the same measurement and reporting framework will remove waste, lower risk and provide predictable and coherent business ecosystem.

A common language offers the opportunity for fresh dialogue, compromise and collaboration.

Definitions:

Economy; all of human activity across financial, social and environmental domains.
Stewardship; responsibility as is necessary to restore balance between economy and nature
Capital; natural, social and financial domains on which economy develops, functions and grows.
Price; an abstract and objective quantitative metric relating to finance at the moment of exchange.
Cost; a qualitative and quantitative metric of outcome and impact considered at moment of exchange.
Value; a qualitative and plural metric unique to the individual and adaptive to the environment.
Waste; anything that does not add value or that which creates liabilities on natural and social systems.
Emissions are a waste as is delay and over production, under utilisation and loss of human potential.
Growth; A naturally occurring phenomenon that must be reflected in economies to find balance.
Utilisation; a metric of economy that recognises the use and utility of resources in perpetuating cycles.