As companies rush to set climate goals, some aren’t even getting the basics quite right when it comes to accounting for greenhouse-gas emissions. That’s what researchers in Ireland, the U.K., and Germany found after scouring a decade’s worth of corporate emissions data. When the numbers were tallied, many didn’t add up. They found instances of errors, omissions, and rounding issues (often down rather than up). Many companies voluntarily report their emissions to CDP, a nonprofit focused on environmental disclosure. They provide figures on gross emissions and then break them down into as many as five categories, including business lines, region and type of greenhouse gas. In all, about 30% of those companies—across various industries—had mismatched data in at least one of the categories in a given year, the researchers found in their […]