The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

clear all ✕

why aren't all 5 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Disclosure
Shopify relies on internal standards rather than existing registry protocols
“So when we started, we began, it was, we didn't trust a credit that came out against an established protocol on a existing registry. We reviewed everything and went through it and set ourselves a new internal standard for what we would buy. so no, we do that …”
Stacey Kauk Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 39:59 The challenges of building a carbon removal portfolio
Disclosure
Shopify has purchased nearly 85,000 tons of durable carbon removal
“So we're just under 85,000 tons and that's durable carbon removal. So it doesn't include things with less than an estimated a hundred year permanence.”
Stacey Kauk Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 6:03 The challenges of building a carbon removal portfolio
Disclosure
Shopify received its first carbon removal deliveries from Running Tide and Climeworks
“Things have started to change in the back half of 2023 where we got our first ocean deliveries from Running Tide, and then our first DAC credit delivery from Climeworks, which is the first batch of credits we've received from them from the contract that we sig…”
Stacey Kauk Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 7:05 The challenges of building a carbon removal portfolio
Disclosure
Shopify has 40 carbon removal companies across multiple pathways in its portfolio
“We've got 40 companies in our portfolio now, across a multitude of pathways”
Stacey Kauk Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 18:31 The challenges of building a carbon removal portfolio
Disclosure
Shopify evaluates its carbon removal suppliers every six months for backups
“And so we do a health check. And we do that health check every six months. And on an annual basis, we'll identify companies that, you know, we have concerns about. And then we look at, okay, well, they're in this vertical, they're doing this technology, we pro…”
Stacey Kauk Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 25:50 The challenges of building a carbon removal portfolio
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 200 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.