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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

222) Austin Whitman: Decarbonizing the economy with the Climate Neutral Certification

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Austin Whitman is the CEO of Climate Neutral, a new platform helping brands measure, reduce, and offset their entire carbon footprint in a comprehensive manner. He oversees all aspects of the organization in its mission to drive investment into greenhouse gas reductions, and brands that work with Climate Neutral and meet their standards can attain their label, Climate Neutral Certified.

In this podcast episode, Austin sheds light on how to assess the trustworthiness of a company when they announce that they're carbon neutral; how voluntary carbon-offset methods by companies in the private sector to address emissions, like the Climate Neutral Certification, differ in their potential than a government-run carbon tax; and more.

 

Featured music: Mining for Steal by Fuchsia

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0:22.3

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0:47.6

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0:54.3

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1:03.6

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1:24.6

You can look at, say, 10 carbon neutral announcements and find 10 different definitions

1:29.1

of what carbon neutrality is. That's one of the reasons why we launched the platform

1:35.6

and why we launched the climate neutral certified label, because we think that there needs to be

1:39.6

more standardization. There are quite a few labels for conscious consumers to look out for today, like organic, fair trade, and so forth.

1:50.6

But seeing the importance of decarbonizing our economy, Austin Whitman helped to start and currently acts as the CEO of Climate Neutral, which is a new platform helping brands to measure,

2:02.9

reduce, and offset their entire carbon footprint in a comprehensive manner. And by doing so,

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