In 2008, when Groom Energy named and published the first report on “Enterprise Carbon Accounting” (ECA) the corporate world was just starting to track their GHG emissions as a new metric for their company’s sustainability efforts. The financial markets hadn’t yet collapsed and EHS managers were using speadsheets to build GHG baselines and begin regular reporting to the EPA’s Climate Leaders and the Carbon Disclosure Project. We tracked initially 40, and later 75, software vendors with GHG tracking and reporting solutions for this new market.
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Topics:
Enterprise Carbon Accounting,
Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA),
2011 EECA report,
EECA,
ECA,
Enterprise Energy and Carbon Accounting (EECA)
This morning Jeffrey Hollender, the Chairman of Seventh Generation, gave the keynote for our Green Enterprise 2010 Seminar.
One powerful concept he described was “full cost” sustainability accounting whereby companies are required to include their external environmental costs (ie. things like pollution or resource consumption) into their corporate earnings.
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Topics:
green products,
Enterprise Carbon Accounting,
Green product design,
Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA),
Green Enterprise 2010,
Carbon Accounting,
Wal-Mart Sustainability Index
We’ve excited to announce our next Groom Energy seminar, entitled Green Enterprise 2010, which will be held April 15th at the Embassy Suites Hotel near Boston’s Logan Airport.
As with our previous seminars our target audience remains corporate energy and sustainability managers who wish to hear and discuss best practices, case study based observations.
Last year our first two seminars had a direct focus on the emerging market for Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA), a market we had identified and about which we published research. Our February 25th Boston ECA event featured Mindy Lubber from Ceres who likened climate impact to an off balance sheet risk which should be disclosed by public companies. Our follow-on May 14th San Francisco ECA event was highlighted by a practical case study panel with presentations from Applied Materials, HP, Intuit and Sony.
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Topics:
sustainability manager,
Enterprise Carbon Accounting,
Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA),
Green Enterprise 2010,
Carbon Accounting,
Wal-Mart Sustainability Index,
Wal-Mart Supplier Workshop,
greening the supply chain
Today Groom Energy published our newly updated ECA research report, 2010 Enterprise Carbon Accounting, which also included our selections for the market’s 2010 ECA Emerging Leaders.
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Topics:
Enterprise Carbon Accounting,
Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA),
EPA Climate Leaders,
EPA's Climate Leaders,
Carbon Accounting,
ECA Emerging Leaders,
ECA,
GHG accounting
So first off apologies that I’ve been remiss in updating our blog the last few months – it’s Columbus Day weekend and I’m finally catching up….
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Topics:
Enterprise Carbon Accounting,
Carbon Accounting,
sustainability,
Wal-Mart Sustainability Index,
Cap N Trade,
greening the supply chain
Not long ago we were all adjusting to an extraordinary increase in the price of a gallon of gas. As prices accelerated economists speculated on how devastating it could be to our economy if it continued…
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Topics:
Enterprise Carbon Accounting,
energy prices,
carbon tax,
Carbon Accounting,
cap and trade,
kWh prices,
Cap N Trade
A few months ago one of our customers told us that they were facing a significant carbon tax for their United Kingdom based operations. With a newly implemented UK carbon taxation policy they expected to pay @ $750k for their 60+ facilities located throughout the UK. I decided it was well worth a quick trip to learn more and now after a few days of meetings here in London, I understand a bit more about this program.
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Topics:
CRC,
Enterprise Carbon Accounting,
United Kingdom - carbon tax,
Carbon Reduction Commitment,
cap and trade,
GHG accounting
Yesterday we co-hosted our Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA) seminar at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt, bringing our successful Feb 25th Boston event to the Left Coast, this time with our new partner GreentechMedia. As he had done for Boston event, Paul Baier did another great job at putting together a set of speakers and topics to be discussed.
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Topics:
Enterprise Carbon Accounting,
WRI,
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant pro,
Carbon Accounting,
Copenhagen,
Carbon Disclosure Project,
GHG reporting,
CDP,
Department of Energy,
World Resource Institute,
GHG accounting
