http://gigaom.com/cleantech/amee-raises-5-5m-for-carbon-accounting-engine/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/cleantech/amee-raises-5-5m-for-carbon-accounting-engine/#comment-30437 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:02:26 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=50910#comment-30437 [...] enterprise giants get at such data, noted Gavin Starks, CEO of AMEE. The British-based startup is putting together a database of all the different standards for carbon data, whether those are different standards for collecting data or reporting it. In that sense, AMEE has [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/amee-raises-5-5m-for-carbon-accounting-engine/#comment-30436 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:40:54 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=50910#comment-30436 Nice article. I’d be interested in how AMEE reconciles the growing list of problems with standard carbon inventory factors benchmarks and their plan to calculate carbon usage in real time. If their software is based on even moderately optimistic formulas — and they are not actually measuring what is in the air themselves — then their software might not tell the whole picture. Check out this BusinessWeek article and you’ll see why there is reason to be wary of self-reported emissions and factors derived from out-of-date formulas. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_02/b4162018066076.htm

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