As part of a companywide effort to reduce our company’s carbon footprint, PMC recently received full verification of our company greenhouse gas emissions from 2009 (600 metric tons CO2e) and 2010 (640 metric tons CO2e) from The Climate Change Registry.
These emissions were a result of the energy used in all of PMC’s offices, the many flights taken for employee travel, and from employee commute trips. As part of a companywide effort, PMC is supporting commuting alternatives; locating offices in LEED certified buildings including our headquarters in Rancho Cordova.
We all know that in California, government at the municipal and state level are making concerted efforts to conduct GHG emissions inventories and looking at ways to make reductions.
While government inventories and Climate Action Plans are part of AB32 and SB375, the private sector has been making huge strides over the last few years to voluntarily assess their own carbon foot print. Shifting attitudes towards our planet’s future combined with the economic benefits of adopting sustainability policies into the corporate structure are no longer the exception and are rapidly becoming the norm. A quick look at The Climate Change Registry’s member list verifies that an increasing number of well-known firms are moving towards a greener corporate attitude.
According to respondents to the second annual Sustainability & Innovation Global Executive Study — collaboration between MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group, most companies are “looking toward a world where sustainability is becoming a mainstream, if not required, part of the business strategy” http://sloanreview.mit.edu/feature/sustainability-advantage/. Indeed, many firms taking steps believe that a corporate sustainability policy offers a distinct competitive advantage.
The Climate Registry (TCR) http://www.theclimateregistry.org/ is a nonprofit organization that records and tracks the greenhouse gas emissions of businesses, local governments and other entities in North America using a unified reported protocol. Tracking emissions is an essential first step for any business that wants to take actions to reduce its impact on global climate change. To view PMC’s emissions from 2009 and 2010, visit https://www.crisreport.org/web/guest/analysis-and-reports.