The Carbon Budget Mirage
- James W.
- 3 days ago
- 1 min read
LinkedIn Post 01: The Carbon Budget Mirage
Your AI decarbonisation system is delivering results. It's fast, cost-effective, and your dashboard shows steady progress.
But here's the problem: your buildings aren't actually becoming less carbon-intensive.
Most AI systems optimise for one thing: minimising cost per unit carbon. Which means they recommend cheap LED retrofits before expensive deep retrofit. They defer the interventions that actually matter.
The result is a "carbon budget mirage"—portfolios that look compliant on paper while individual buildings fall behind their carbon budget obligations.
If you manage building decarbonisation, this is worth investigating. Deep retrofit remains indefinitely deferred? Portfolio reporting masks individual non-compliance? That's not a system failure. That's a governance failure.
We've identified five governance gaps in how AI systems interact with UK Climate Change Act obligations. More on this coming soon.
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