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       Show HN: Bend 2.0 API for transaction enrichment/CO2e estimates
        
       Heyy HN. We're celebrating 2 years of Bend's existence as a company
       and we've launched a new API to help you understand the climate
       impact of business activity, and/or embed climate data in your
       application.  For most companies, 80% of your emissions are from
       the goods and services that you buy. Unless you're running a power
       plant or an airline, odds are you're not directly combusting lots
       of fossil fuels. But literally everything we buy has some upstream
       climate impact, whether it's the flights and Ubers that we
       purchase, or our AWS bills (that run on grids powered by natural
       gas), all the way through to the computer / phone that you're
       reading this on, in an office that is heated and cooled with some
       amount of coal, etc. And according to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol,
       all these indirect emissions count towards your company's inventory
       ('scope 3' emissions).  The problem is that figuring out how to
       estimate the emissions from all the thousands of things a company
       purchases is a hard data science problem. The best methodology may
       be different for any given item, and the relevant data is scattered
       all over the place.  We've unified it under our v2 API. Here's how
       it works: Transactions: For any financial transaction, we match the
       transaction vendor across our database of tens-of-thousands of
       vendors and return an emissions estimate based on the specific
       company's climate profile, as well as any public decarbonization
       commitments or targets they've set. (There's a big difference
       between $100 spent at Chevron vs $100 spent at Apple, for instance)
       Buildings: For your office (if you still have an office!) we use
       data gathered by the government and specific grid-intensity info,
       along with your square footage, to estimate the climate impact
       there. Flights: For flight route information we've wrapped a
       calculator created by the International Air Transport Association
       in a simple API.  With the SEC set to announce new climate
       disclosure requirements in April, and more large companies
       requiring their vendors to report Greenhouse Gas inventories, Bend
       is on a mission to make it easy for any company to understand their
       climate impact.  We hope you find it useful -- we'd love your
       feedback! The Estimate APIs are 100% free and always will be; the
       Enrichment API is a paid service but includes a generous free tier
       of 100 API calls / month. And of course, our dream is that you'll
       be inspired to plug this data into your stack, surfacing
       sustainability insights to your customers.  You can get a trial key
       at https://bend.green/trial-key  Thanks! - Ted & Thomas
        
       Author : thomasmost
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2024-01-11 19:02 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | tedpower wrote:
       | Hey HN, we're YC S22 -- let us know if you have any questions or
       | feedback!
        
       | jdpigeon wrote:
       | Love to see it! If only I could convince my bosses to invest in
       | tracking this info...
        
         | thomasmost wrote:
         | One of the things we're doing is encouraging our customers to
         | reach out to their vendors to request it!
        
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