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🏭Founder and CEO, Carbon Benchmark Ltd. Blogger.

Below you can see a sneak peek of our GHG peer benchmarking dataset for Drug Manufacturers. Each row represents a company. The numerical columns then contain the Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 GHG emissions disclosures (including the 15 sub-categories of Scope 3). Crucially, there are two additional columns showing the source and page number of the report where the numbers came from. I have highlighted the row for Bayer one of the biggest drugs companies. If you then click on the URL in the spreadsheet you are taken to the Bayer sustainability report which you can see below. And you will find that the numbers in our spreadsheet match the numbers in the report! There was a lot of automation (Python code) and human effort that went into the creation of our datasets. However, I have banned the use of AI in the creation of our datasets. Why? Because as soon as you start using generative AI in the process, you need to replace your source with "probablistically drawn from a bag of stuff from the internet". That's not going to work with the regulations. Yes to automation Yes to data lineage No to AI #sustainabilityreporting #carbonbenchmark

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Chris Spafford

Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

6mo

Banned seems extreme. It’s an informative and useful tool of not relied upon blindly. Have seen useful applications in this space that are time saving and informative as an augmentation to more traditional analytics. But understand where the sentiment is coming from.

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