Carbon Management

Understanding, managing, and reducing your carbon footprint

Nexant assists businesses and institutions with carbon strategy formation. We support sustainability initiatives with a range of information management tools to assess carbon baseline profiles, track energy and carbon usage and key performance indicators, formulate GHG reduction goals, and apply cost-effective and highly accurate M&V processes for determining GHG reductions.

Policy analysis

Requirements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are appearing and evolving at a rapid pace throughout the world. To date, more than 30 U.S. states have either established or proposed legislation to define GHG targets and reporting requirements. An effective corporate and government carbon strategy must include carbon policy analysis to guide forward planning within a dynamic legal, regulatory and financial climate. Likewise, senior executives must have the proper tools to guide future technology investments and carbon management programs.

Our team has unparalleled expertise in the full range of targeted policy- and technology-based strategies for GHG emissions mitigation, including market-based mechanisms, demand side management, energy efficiency programs, renewable and distributed generation, and clean power technologies. Our proven and validated approach employs system resource optimization modeling to analyze multiple policy scenario outcomes. This modeling typically examines a range of policy- and technology-based options targeted to reduce GHG emissions—supplemented by our practical experience with policy and regulatory regimes throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States—so that policy makers and corporate executives are assured of realistically achievable market and technology solutions.

We assist businesses and institutions with GHG strategy formation and supports sustainability initiatives with a range of information management tools to assess carbon baseline profiles, track energy and carbon usage, monitor key performance indicators, formulate GHG reduction goals, and apply cost-effective, highly accurate M&V processes for determining GHG reductions. Our Clean Energy Markets organization supports new undertakings with GHG project analysis .

Emissions inventory, monitoring, and reporting

To participate effectively in global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, businesses, utilities, and governments must adopt sound inventory, monitoring, and reporting procedures. Establishing a baseline inventory of carbon emissions is the first step in securing verifiable carbon credits and in meeting media and shareholder calls for increased environmental stewardship.

Nexant delivers comprehensive and verifiable GHG baselining, monitoring, and reporting services. Building on thousands of energy audits throughout the world, Nexant not only delivers accurate Scope I, II, and III emissions inventories, but can help enterprises secure funding support to retrofit facilities and equipment to lower emissions and energy costs. For example, Nexant formulated the analytical and assessment framework to determine the carbon footprint for business travel that is now the basis for international protocols.