Each member of the value chain works out which carbon-emitting and carbon-removing activities sit in its own hands and which it can only sway, looking at the single asset, the network it belongs to and the wider system together. It maps how its own scheme interacts with that network and system, talks to the relevant stakeholders about where carbon can be cut or where risk arises at each of those levels, and leans towards nature-based answers because of the removals and co-benefits they offer. It lines up its approach with other members and with planners, lenders, government and regulators so that opportunities are not lost across a sector or region, pinpoints the work stages at which it can act (giving precedence to anything with a significant bearing on system-wide reduction), quantifies emissions and removals with the decision-making framework at an accuracy that fits the stage, and makes whole life carbon part of how it decides. Owners, managers and designers go further: they weigh the carbon cost of having, or lacking, resilience to climate change, and work jointly on solutions that deliver the resilience required for the least whole life carbon, including the carbon spared by not having to recover from future events.
The graph holds this control, the 0 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.