The carbon frameworks’ data mapping impulse is reminiscent of the colonial origins of knowledge extraction. ESG and sustainability data at the organizational scale are blood tests equivalent to the organization’s human health. The stress on climate action is on building a baseline rather than immediate attention on the frontlines of extreme events such as the Kelantan Flooding. The key facet of the post-Paris Climate Action dispensation has been the decoupling of local and regional public health imperatives with climate measures. It has curiously been about risk in the financial sense, and how it impacts corporate value creation. The community element needs to be reinfused and brought back to the conversation. There is an inherent Eurocentric politics that is embedded in the way frameworks are written. The climate frameworks are cleverly wrapped up as politically neutral. Which they are not.