The CostCarbon Framework
This is a new way to think about our economy. It adds carbon as a key metric alongside money. Every transaction—whether it’s buying groceries, building a house, or running a factory—comes with a price in dollars but what about the cost in carbon?
Why do we put everything in dollars when it is carbon we are made of, carbon that we depend upon and carbon that is warming the planet?
The cost in carbon is what we see in changing weather, inequality and waste. If we can have a dollar number on everything why cant we also have a carbon number?
By tracking both, we can see the true impact of our choices.
This system might help people, businesses, and governments make better informed decisions that reduce waste, lower emissions, and protect the planet. It’s like having a second number on what you buy that is twice as deep and twice as wide that grows and lasts and makes impact, builds resistance, resilience, through diversity. The carbon number beside the price informs you of what really matters and the activity and impact of your choices.
The logic of this approach is its simplicity and your private freedom to choose. Just like we count money, we can count carbon, just like it.
It does not depend on scarcity but unlocks abundance
It works for everyone—big or small, local or global.
It is straight forward as hard and fast as we can to bring transparency to our actions and move towards a better bigger more sustainable future.
A System in Seven Projects
Each of these projects plays a role in advancing ‘the system’.
We can achieve meaningful progress over the next six years. With the world governments who have, on our behalf, agreed to halve emissions by 2030!
We can do better than that by using a system that is fairer.
#yeswecan
In your location, community, with people you trust, who share your values let’s just do it.
- Carbon Thermostat (mobile application) An artificial machine tool that enables individuals and organisations track and manage their carbon impact in real time, making smarter, low-carbon choices easier than ever.
- Readiness Indicator Framework – RIF A cross-sector alignment tool to accelerate adoption of carbon accounting at a monetary level, helping industries and governments move forward together at a less hindered pace of innovation and commerce that reflects the urgency and opportunity of transition.
- GDP:GDU Algorithm A quantitative and qualitative metric to measure the balance between production and consumption. Utilisation of resources across multiple dimensions of capital grow, revealing lost and latent value. The difference between today and what might be is net and not zero.
- Emile Business Manual A little green book to help measure and manage energy, materials, information, labour, and enterprise. This story helps reduce costs, lower risks, and double human activity.
- KIETHS – Knowledge in Earth Systems A value definition tool that works for anyone—from individuals to nations. It might help define unique value and so demand on the market tailored to individual entities.
- Commons Governance Model Researching, writing, and designing a model for fair governance of shared resources. This document is intended to be live, open distributed and free to reflect and inform communities and organisations in managing their impact transparently and equitably.
- Communication Social Media, Art and Networks. Building a strong public-facing platform with a website, social media, and engaging content to share our work, inspire action, and grow our community.
Commons Governance is a concept and practice of where each and every stakeholder within supply/value chains abide by the same measurement and reporting framework will remove waste, lower risk and provide predictable and coherent ecosystems.
A common metric enabling common language as a basis for fresh dialogue, compromise and collaboration.
A Pathway to Change: Seven Steps
- Count Carbon: Make carbon visible by adding a carbon number to every transaction, displayed alongside the monetary price. This empowers everyone to understand the true impact of their choices.
- The Carbon Thermostat: A practical tool to track and display carbon costs for everyday items, from coffee to cars. It provides a line of sight from source to re-source makes visible and actionable.
- Supply Chains : Start small and test the system in location with small individual product supply chains or industries. Learn what works and adapt it real-world application.
- Grow Organically: Allow others to share and expand sideways, upwards, and downwards across communities, industries, and regions. Build momentum naturally as success stories emerge.
- Citizen-Consumers: As consumers we are empowered to drive demand for low-carbon options by giving them the tools and knowledge to make informed decisions.
- Declare the Goal: Aim for ambitious carbon reduction targets. Governments set goals, but citizens can accelerate change through collective action.
- Share the Tools: The CostCarbon framework is a flexible set of tools for individuals, communities, businesses, and governments. Use it collaboratively to innovate solutions and drive meaningful progress.
