The Greenhouse Gas Dilemma

Forbes.com (Sep 22 2009) Construction , Monitoring , Cap and Trade , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

1. Do you need a software strategy for reporting and managing carbon emissions? The world of carbon management is most often discussed these days in terms of the pending Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade legislation, which will put steadily decreasing limits on carbon emissions and create a market for carbon credits. While most people expect that law to pass in some form in the next 12 months, a law is already on the books that requires reporting of the six greenhouse gases defined in the Kyoto Protocol. That law is the EPA's Mandatory Reporting Rule (MRR), which requires more than 13,200 businesses to report their carbon emissions by March 2011. Data collection for this reporting must begin in January 2010. (Read Full Article)

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