Emissions Accounting to Accelerate Decarbonization
As electricity demand rises and many companies and organizations commit to using more clean energy, robust emissions-accounting rules could help determine the pace of decarbonization. This conference will explore best practices for measuring the clean-energy content or carbon dioxide emissions linked to a particular unit of electricity consumption. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol has governed the existing greenhouse gas emissions-accounting standards since 1998, but many stakeholders have suggested possible improvements. The conference will bring together a wide array of stakeholders to discuss different approaches to carbon-emissions accounting and their potential to make clean-energy-procurement policies and corporate commitments more effective, in the U.S. and internationally.
The event will feature a keynote address from Lily Batchelder, professor at NYU School of Law and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for tax policy.
Other speakers will include:
- Nkiruka Avila, Meta
- Bryan Bollinger, NYU Stern School of Business
- Pete Budden, Natural Resources Defense Council
- Michael Gergen, Coalition for Green Capital
- Michael Macrae, World Resources Institute
- Dharik Mallapragada, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
- Gavin McCormick, WattTime
- Katherine Ott, Constellation
- Tom Plant, Colorado Public Utilities Commission
- Tim Schittekatte, MIT Sloan School of Management and FTI Consulting
- Harry Singh, Goldman Sachs
- Parikhit Sinha, Electric Hydrogen
- Leehi Yona, Cornell Law School
New York CLE credit for this event is pending. If approved, the credit will be appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys.
This event is co-hosted with the NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s Sustainable Engineering Initiative. It is made possible by the generous support of the NYU All-University Climate Change Initiative and its partners, including the NYU Office of Sustainability and the Office of Research Development.