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The Four Best Practice Strategies Needed for Successful Carbon Management

By Tracey de Morsella on March 10, 2010 1 Comment BAE Systems, Best Practices Carbon Management, BHP Billiton, BP, building management systems, business process changes, carbon issue, carbon management, carbon management strategies, carbon reduction plan, CEOs, Chief Sustainability Officer, cisco, CO2 emissions, CO2 reduction goals, cross-functional strategy, CSR Directors, Dow Chemical Company, electric vehicle fleet trials, energy managers, finance, financial analysis, fuel data, granular energy, HP, Operations, Peter Charville-Mort, Proctor & Gamble, SAP, social responsibility, sustainability programs, Tracey de Morsella, transformational change, unintended consequences, Verdantix, Wal-Mart

The Four Best Practice Strategies Needed for Successful Carbon Management

A new report released by independent research firm, Verdantix, explains why firms are floundering with carbon management and putting the future of the business at risk due to flawed governance and strained business processes. It warns that unless CEOs take ownership of carbon management as a business transformation challenge their firms will fail to achieve absolute reductions in CO2 emissions.

The Business Case For Carbon Management Software: CFOs Will Be Compelled To Invest In It

By Tracey de Morsella on September 10, 2009 2 Comments accounting, audit costs, auditability, Board, brand exposure, Business Case For Carbon Management Software, CA ecoGovernance, carbon abatement, carbon abatement investments, carbon abatement spending, carbon accounting, carbon assets, carbon costs, carbon data, carbon data modelling tools, carbon data quality. Climate Disclosure Standards Board, carbon data verification, Carbon Disclosure Project, carbon emissions communications, Carbon Hub, carbon liabilities, carbon management organiZation.carbon management strategy, carbon management software, carbon management systems, carbon prices, carbon reduction commitments, carbon reduction plan, CarbonView, Caterpillar, CFO, CFOs, change costs, cisco, climate change risk management. Mandatory reporting, climate change strategies, CO2 compliance deadline, CO2 targets, Coca-Cola, compliance costs, Crédit Agricole, David Metcalfe, emissions data, energy cost savings, enterprise carbon footprint, enterprise footprint, ESS, EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme, GHG audit, GHG reporting, global consistency, government regulations in a number of countries, greenhouse gas emissions, Greenstone Carbon Management, Hara, IHS, IHS opsInfo, implementation of carbon management software, Investors Want More Disclosure of Climate Risk Data from Corporations, mandatory reporting rules, National Grid, PE International, risk management, SAP, SAS, SAS for Sustainability Management, Shell Exploration & Production, supply chain carbon footprint, Tesco, The Gap, Verdantix, verification of carbon emissions data, Vodafone and Weyerhauser, Wal-Mart, Westin hotel, Xstrata

The financial risk of carbon liabilities, a need for better management control over carbon data, and new government regulations in a number of countries, will will compel CFOs to invest in carbon management software in the coming year. This is the main conclusion of the report, The Business Case For Carbon Management Software, from the research firm Verdantix. The report analyzes the business case for investing in carbon software from vendors like CarbonView, Carbon Hub, ESS, Greenstone Carbon Management, Hara, IHS, PE International, SAP and SAS.