Thursday, December 10, 2009

Enterprise Carbon and Energy Management Systems Promote a Comprehensive Approach

By Daniel Stouffer

It is sobering to realize that less than half of the organizations that really need to, actually understand how to become sustainable. Legislation is likely to arrive in our not-too-distant future and a lot of media time is being spent on the issue. Conversely, those organizations who are innovative really understand the need to achieve efficiency and have brought in enterprise carbon and energy management systems to help them achieve this.

An enterprise carbon and energy management system represents a conglomeration of important software solutions and tools, which effectively allows the organization to understand its real costs of doing business. Through such an understanding the business is able to be transparent and to focus its attention on the need to be fully energy-efficient and to reduce its carbon footprint.

We are well aware by now of the damage that greenhouse gases has caused to our environment. This has amassed over several hundred years and will be very difficult to reverse, but society is now insistent that measures are taken to attack these emissions. Organizations that do not get actively involved will be heavily criticized.

Legislation is almost upon us as politicians finally listen to evidence provided by scientists. It seems clear that Western governments favor the idea of market-driven forces as a significant deterrent to the use of carbon. An enterprise carbon and energy management system focuses and reveals the amount of pollutant emitted by an organization and provides the business with the data necessary to make improvements.

A comprehensive approach must be given to the issue of emission reduction and energy efficiency. All the company's assets are responsible in one way or another, but many organizations just do not have the facts and figures necessary for them to act. Enterprise carbon and energy management systems will present this data to them in a meaningful and actionable format.

If and when carbon becomes an actual trading commodity, every company will be required to cut back on its use or face competitive disadvantages in the marketplace.

Today we live in an era of constant media attention and the public is now highly educated and expects action. A nonconforming organization will attract adverse media attention right away and its lack of sustainability will ultimately lead to reduced revenues as well.

Service providers are now emerging who will specialize in enterprise carbon and energy management systems. Business executives must be on the same page and work together with environmentalists to assure our future.

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