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ITT - White Plains, NY
O’Brien & Gere developed a greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory program to support ITT’s corporate sustainability program. The GHG program included a review of seven international GHG accounting protocols to develop a consensus inventory approach as well as agreements regarding inventory intended audience, organizational and operational boundaries, and de minimis thresholds. O’Brien & Gere developed and conducted a corporate survey to identify GHG-emitting activities at ITT facilities and identify Environmental Safety and Health (ESH) metrics needed to measure these activities.
O’Brien & Gere developed ITT’s 2007 corporate greenhouse gas inventory for over one hundred international manufacturing facilities, which provided the basis for ITT’s response to a corporate investor climate change disclosure questionnaire (Carbon Disclosure Project).
Although ITT has been internally estimating corporation-wide greenhouse gas emissions since 2002, 2007 is the first year for which ITT has strictly followed the international GHG accounting protocols and calculated facility-specific as well as corporation-wide emissions.
In 2007, ITT also engaged in a process for developing an inventory program, including engagement of ESH directors, agreement on inventory boundaries and definitions, identification of data needs and gaps, and engagement of facility-level ESH staff. This process will allow ITT to more confidently disclose greenhouse gas emission estimates to corporate investors and help maintain its status in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
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