We first envisage pioneering research students starting to carbon account in disciplines that currently have little to no knowledge, tools, or collaboration outside academia.

These students would make the pioneer carbon footprint estimation in their discipline and geographical region: documenting the carbon footprint of techniques and practices specific to their scientific discipline and social sphere.

After the first pioneering footprint report in a discipline, students act as the pivotal stakeholder connecting and scrutinising institutions and industries in the pursuit for carbon mitigation.

At this stage, specialised tools are distributed for free, easy access, supporting a growing ecosystem of doctoral researchers.

Provoked and maintained by student activity, many researchers and institutions are now aware and on-board with carbon accounting in a discipline: refined, sophisticated, and accurate tools for discipline-related accouting maintains a vibrant ecosystem for carbon accounting in the scientific discipline. 

Students continue to lead the charge in carbon migitiation for wider society including, but not limited to, industry and high-educational institutions by scrutinising mitigation attempts to progress and maintain ethical and reliable carbon sustainability 

When students submit their research thesis, we endeavour that many of them will attach Carbon Appendices detailing the carbon footprint of their specific research. 

Over time, these appendices will form the basis of the Carbon Codex: an open-access, reliable, and highly useful database of equipment, technique, and procurement footprint across scientific disciplines, socioeconomic landscapes, geography and time. 

With this open-access data, research institutions, industry, and policy makers can access not just an accurate stream of information on carbon footprinting but also rely upon a well-educated generation of carbon accountants to drive forward change in their respective ecosystems!