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From: Frank A. Coluccio	12/17/2007 3:03:53 PM
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Hooking up a greenhouse gas meter 12-17-07 \| Green Wombat-Fortune Mag [ remember, what starts in the center very often finds its way to the edge ... ] Just about every business has an electricity meter and a water meter. But what about a greenhouse gas meter? In the years ahead, a growing number of companies will need one. A national U.S. greenhouse gas cap is all but inevitable and global warming-driven limits on greenhouse gas emissions already imposed by Europe and California require certain industries to calculate and report their emissions. Emerging carbon trading markets, meanwhile, offer the opportunity to profit from cutting CO2. Even companies unlikely to fall under the purview of the carbon regulators — such as Google and Sun Microsystems — are measuring their carbon footprints as an act of good corporate citizenship to show customers employees their green bona fides. As Green Wombat has written previously, IBM (IBM) sees a big business in carbon consulting. Now Big Blue has collaborated with Evergreen Energy (EEE) to create what they call the GreenCert greenhouse gas meter. Rather than a hunk of hardware, it’s an Internet-based software program designed to collect real-time emissions data from sensors and other sources. It calculates the volume of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere by a company and certifies any reductions as credits that can be traded on carbon markets. GreenCert’s engine was developed by C-Lock Technology, a subsidiary of Evergreen, a “clean coal” technology company. IBM is providing the database and Internet software to allow GreenCert to be rolled out across across industries and be accessible to regulators and other parties. Cont.: greenwombat.blogs.fortune.cnn.com ------

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