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Guest Talk with Dara O'Rourke | How to Blow Up a Carbon Data Pipeline

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Dara O'Rourke, professor of sustainability sciences at Berkeley, discusses how to disrupt and reform carbon data pipelines—the systems used to measure and report corporate climate commitments. Drawing on his experience building Amazon's sustainability infrastructure and climate pledge protocols, O'Rourke examines the governance and verification mechanisms underlying mainstream climate accountability, addressing both the technical infrastructure and institutional protocols that enable or undermine climate action.

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