Operationalizing Emissions Reduction and GHG Accounting Requirements: Tools and Technical Assistance for North Carolina Businesses

Abstract

North Carolina's (NC) Waste Reduction Partners (WRP) is a public-private technical assistance program affiliated with the NC Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Environmental Assistance and Outreach. WRP provides NC businesses and institutions with on-site energy audits, efficiency assessments, cost-saving strategies, and technical resources at no cost. Increasingly, energy-related goals are converging with new greenhouse gas and carbon emission reduction and reporting requirements. WRP has found that client personnel often lack the familiarity and/or resources to comprehensively address these emerging emissions requirements, including Scopes 1, 2, and 3 emissions accounting. This project supports WRP's mission by synthesizing current, highly technical primary source materials, government and non-governmental organization literature, and industry best practices to create a usable and "evergreen" knowledge bank. WRP intends to use this information in various forms to train, assist, and execute emissions reduction initiatives alongside existing energy reduction programs with its client and member companies.