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Why Institutional Carbon Work Runs by Different Rules
April 7, 2026 · Short insight · 1 min read
Carbon work for a corporate and carbon work for a public institution look similar on paper and behave very differently in practice. The difference is who examines the result, how many of them there are, and what happens if the assumptions do not hold.
Institutional projects are reviewed by parties with no commercial interest in the project succeeding. Documentation written to persuade will not survive that. What survives is an audit trail: assumptions stated, sources given, and a baseline that a reviewer can reconstruct independently.
This has to be decided at the outset. Evidence standards are not something a project can be retrofitted with once a regulator asks. The underlying data collection either happened correctly or it did not.
Being trusted with government and defence work is itself a credential, and it is one reason corporates bring us their more sensitive projects.
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