CIG: Managing carbon footprints becoming a priority for corporate U.S.

Oct. 5, 2009 - PRLog -- The latest carbon cap-and-trade legislation presently being considered by Congress and increasing demands from shareholders,is motivating US firms to  understand the urgency dealing with their greenhouse gas emissions, or carbon footprint, and many are leaping at the chance to change their carbon liability into an asset, CIG research is indicating.


“The best-managed companies are evaluating their carbon footprint,” says founder and CEO of a Californian investment advisory firm that has formed two sustainability indexes tracking the S&P 100 and S&P 500 constituent firms. “And they’re managing it lower to save energy and costs, reduce their future volatility of materials costs, mitigate potential environmental liabilities, and create new competitive advantages,” CIG sources report.


Emissions produced in the manufacture of a company’s principle product or service, whether it’s a megawatt of electricity or a truckload of goods moved 100 miles, can be reasonably easy to calculate. But other emissions, like those generated when your staff fly to meetings or when consumers utilize your appliances, are harder to evaluate.



Many of the largest corporations have already begun analyzing their systems.


A Climate Earth’s spokes person told CIG that corporations need to treat carbon like any other contribution into their processes, and not as a separate regulatory requirement. “Manufacturers need to manage carbon emissions like quality,” he says. “If a (product’s) part is flawed and yields a poor quality end-product, no manufacturer today would tell customers that the poor quality product was not their fault.”

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