Alexis Normand is the Co-founder & CEO of Greenly, a carbon accounting and management platform enabling companies to measure and reduce their emissions

Carbon accounting has grown from a niche practice only a few years ago to a widely adopted business practice with 18,700 public companies now disclosing their emissions

By measuring their emissions, companies can then define climate targets with ~2,200 companies having set a net zero science-based target to date, a number that has grown exponentially over the last years

Yet, much remains to be done with 17,000 public companies still failing to disclose their emissions and - while science-based target set a high bar for climate ambition - greenwashing and dubious climate claims remain rampant in the corporate world

Launched less than 4 years ago in Paris, Greenly aims to democratize carbon measurement to enable companies of all size to measure their impact and take climate action. Greenly has already convinced 1,000 customers across Europe and the US, from one-person shops to large companies such as banking giant BNP Paribas.

In this episode, we talk with Alexis about:

• how Alexis' interest in technology and tracking health data brought him to carbon accounting
• how can we measure carbon emissions from company’s data
• which climate commitments can corporates take and what is the difference between carbon neutrality and net zero science-based targets
• how can Greenly software platform scale to companies of all sizes globally and become a standard like any financial accounting system but for carbon

Enjoy the show!

To learn more about carbon accounting and emission reduction:

• The Net-Zero standard for Corporates (report, ~65 pages)
• Energy: A beginner’s guide, Vaclav Smil (book)
• How to avoid a climate disaster, Bill Gates (book)
• Speed & Scale, an action plan for solving our climate crisis, John Doer (book)
• Drawdown: the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming, Paul Hawken (book)
• World without end, Jean-Marc Jancovici (comics)