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MotivEarth follows a simple 5-step process to help you develop your strategic
climate change plan and implement solutions right for your business. Here is
how you can start today:
STEP 1: Initial Assessment
MotivEarth will complete a “high-level” review of your company’s global warming
impacts. We will develop an initial carbon, or greenhouse gas, emissions
inventory using a brief survey that takes only a few minutes to complete. How
easy is that!? Please go here to register with MotivEarth, and we will contact you to start the process.
STEP 2: Develop a Strategic
Climate Change Plan
To reduce carbon emissions, your company will need to make a commitment. The
commitment will depend upon your motivation – to avoid compliance costs,
develop credits that can be sold, conform to industry emission reduction goals,
etc. Using the initial carbon emissions inventory completed for Step 1,
knowledge of your business, and your commitment to reduce emissions, we will
develop a strategic climate change plan that will guide the emission reduction
process. Here are just some of the many questions that this guiding plan may
address for your company:
When should we start reducing carbon emissons?
How do we become carbon neutral?
What carbon emissions are we reponsible for reducing?
Should we join a registry and get our carbon emissions inventory certified?
How will we comply with developing carbon regulations?
What are the business risks and costs of carbon compliance?
Should we join the Chicago Climate Exchange?
Can we get involved with Kyoto Protocol projects?
How do we compel suppliers, vendors and subcontractors to reduce their carbon
emissions?
What are solutions to reduce carbon emissions?
Can we develop renewable energy credits, and what are those worth?
How does renewable energy reduce our carbon emissions?
What if we can’t get carbon emissions to zero, should we buy carbon offsets
at an auction?
Is our product a Global Warming Solution; how can we position that product or
service?
Is there an engineering solution I can use to reduce carbon emissions?
What are investment opportunities with global warming solutions?
Can investment products be used to hedge carbon compliance risks?
How do we communicate what we are doing to employees, customers,
shareholders, banks, and other stakeholders?
STEP 3: Detailed Emissions Inventory and Tracking
A key to implementing your plan to reduce carbon emissions is to have a
detailed baseline carbon emissions inventory. You will want to analyze how
solutions lead to emission reductions. MotivEarth will work with you to refine
the initial, carbon emissions inventory for your company, by looking at areas
where your company directly or indirectly causes carbon emissions, and by
refining the information inputs. The information will be tracked on our website
so that you can see your baseline inventory, and track your progress toward
reducing emissions.
We can help you to get your emissions inventory data placed on a registry such
as the California Climate Action Registry , or the developing national
Climate Registry, and then get the data verified. Verification means that a
third party company audits and approves your emissions inventory. Registration
and verification makes your baseline carbon emissions inventory and subsequent
reductions “real".
STEP 4: Implement Solutions
Following your guiding strategic climate change plan, MotivEarth will help you
to implement strategic carbon solutions that are right for your business.
Browse solutions here, or contact us to learn more.
STEP 5: Communicate Results
What good are results if no one knows what you have accomplished? MotivEarth
will help you to get the word out about what your company is doing to reduce
global warming emissions. We will assist you to develop marketing and PR
programs that communicate results.
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