Overview:

Around the world, regulatory and market forces are driving major organizations to establish public goals for reducing energy and resource use, and resulting carbon emissions. Many begin by manually gathering baseline information, and using spreadsheets to calculate and track initial results. Yet achieving meaningful savings over time in resource use, emissions, and associated dollars often proves difficult without engaging the broader organization. For this, new processes, tools, and operating responsibilities are necessary.

Moderated by Don Bray, President of AltaTerra Research, this web conference will feature findings from AltaTerra’s Carbon Management Series research reports, and an in-depth implementation case study presented by Karl Van Orsdol, Sustainability Leader and Energy Risk Manager for the City of Palo Alto, California.

Don will provide background analysis on the business drivers, concepts, practices and capabilities behind Carbon Management information systems as a rapidly emerging solution class. Karl will describe Palo Alto’s recent implementation experience, including a discussion of target reduction goals, motivating factors, system selection and implementation, new processes and organizational responsibilities, key challenges, and achievement of $300-600,000 in annual cost savings. At the end of these presentations there will be an interactive Q&A session.

This case study is relevant to both corporate and governmental entities.

For more information about the case study, please download the free summary page (one-minute registration with website required). Each web conference participant will also receive a copy of the case study.

Key Takeaways: - independent, ‘real world’ information on how to approach and plan for implementation of a carbon management system - business case drivers and return on investment (ROI) definition - insights into the requirements definition and vendor review process - new operating processes and organizational responsibilities important for success - lessons learned on implementation challenges and achieving savings

Reference Materials

After the presentation, you will receive a full copy of the presentation slides in PDF format. Also, you will receive a copy of the recent 15-page AltaTerra Research solution case study report from the carbon management series, “Palo Alto Cuts Carbon with Hara”.

For most web conferences, where recording is of sufficient quality, AltaTerra is also able to provide access to an archived recording.