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Carbon Reduction Roadmap

EPA GHG Reporting
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CARBON REDUCTION ROADMAP
Quantitative Analysis for YOUR Business

Large emitters of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases who will be regulated by federal cap-and-trade regulation face a range of new challenges and opportunities for gaining competitive advantage. A Carbon Shrinks Carbon Reduction Roadmap provides detailed analysis of how federal cap-and-trade legislation can specifically affect YOUR business, and uses computer modelling to combine a range of potential emission reduction projects with a cost model of YOUR specific business into an overall picture of quatitative strategy scenario comparisons.

Why invest in a Roadmap now, before a bill has been passed ?

Of course, the currently proposed federal legislation will be amended before it is passed. After it passes, the EPA rule-making process to determine how several detailed aspects will be implemented will not be fully completed until 2011 or so. Allowance prices will not be known until auctions begin just before 2012, and will continually change.

A Carbon Shrinks Carbon Reduction Roadmap is an investment in an ongoing strategy framework, designed to be continuously updated as rules are defined and as market prices change. Compliance obligations for federal cap-and-trade will have an important impact on the profit of most affected businesses, and a Roadmap provides a way to integrate compliance planning into the regular annual planning process.

Elements of an annually updated Carbon Shrinks Carbon Reduction Roadmap are:

1. An up-to-date analysis of climate regulation as it affects YOUR business

2. Candidate carbon reduction projects that relate to YOUR business

3. Calculation of financial Return On Investment (ROI) using YOUR policy for ROI, for each candidate project using up-to-date ballpark estimates for costs and benefits.

4. Computer modelling for comparison of different strategy scenarios that are based on the cost model of YOUR business.

5. Recommendations for policy and action in the coming year.

There will be winners and losers in the new carbon-priced economy. Most of the winners will be those who made an early start in developing ther strategies for managing their risks and opportunities. Our Roadmap is an excellent way to begin that work for your business.