As climate change legislation makes its way through Congress and stakeholders increase pressure on businesses and government to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, AltaTerra Research is pleased to announce the web conference, “Carbon Footprint Reduction for the Long Haul.” This event will be held Thursday, December 3rd at 10 a.m. Pacific / 1 p.m. Eastern and will feature a case study of carbon management software implementation by the City of Palo Alto, California.
From the experience of the City of Palo Alto, participants will gain independent, ‘real world’ information on how to approach and plan for implementation of a carbon management system. Karl Van Orsdol, Sustainability Leader and Energy Risk Manager for the City of Palo Alto, will describe the City’s recent experience implementing carbon management software (from Hara Software, Inc), including a discussion of target reduction goals, motivating factors, system selection and implementation, new processes and organizational responsibilities, key challenges, and achievement of $300-600,000 in annual cost savings.
For a broader look at carbon management information systems as a rapidly emerging solution class, Don Bray, President of AltaTerra Research will provide background analysis on business drivers, concepts, practices and system capabilities. “Palo Alto’s experience demonstrates that manually gathering baseline information and using spreadsheets to calculate and track results is not sustainable,”
Further information and registration for the event are available at www.altaterra.net/
