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.
Speakers will include:
Bryan Bollinger, NYU Stern School of Business
Rachel Fakhry, Natural Resources Defense Council
Michael Macrae, World Resources Institute
Gavin McCormick, WattTime
Katherine Ott, Constellation
Tom Plant, Colorado Public Utilities Commission
Tim Schittekatte, MIT Sloan School of Management and FTI Consulting
Harry Singh, Goldman Sachs
Leehi Yona, Cornall Law School
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.
The conference will be held at NYU School of Law and will be available via livestream.
CLE credit pending.
Additional details are available here.