CONFERENCE: Emissions Accounting to Accelerate Decarbonization
As electricity demand rises and many companies and organizations commit to using more clean energy, robust emissions-accounting rules could help determine the pace of decarbonization. This conference will explore best practices for measuring the clean energy content or carbon dioxide emissions linked to a particular unit of electricity consumption. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol has governed the existing greenhouse gas emissions accounting standards since 1998, but many stakeholders have suggested possible improvements. The conference will bring together a wide array of stakeholders to discuss different approaches to carbon-emissions accounting and their potential to make clean energy procurement policies and corporate commitments more effective, in the U.S. and internationally.
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Panel 1: State of the Art in Emissions Accounting
- Bryan Bollinger, NYU Stern School of Business
- Michael Macrae, World Resources Institute
- Tim Schittekatte, MIT Sloan School of Management and FTI Consulting
Panel 2: Rules, Regulations, and Implementation
- Rachel Fakhry, Natural Resources Defense Council
- Tom Plant, Colorado Public Utilities Commission
- Leehi Yona, Cornell Law School
Panel 3: Implications for Technology and Finance
- Gavin McCormick, WattTime
- Katherine Ott, Constellation
- Harry Singh, Goldman Sachs
This event is co-hosted with the NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Sustainable Engineering Initiative and made possible by the generous support of the NYU All-University Climate Change Initiative.
We are seeking CLE accreditation for this event and will update this page when we acquire it.