New York State has a new Senate bill, S6030, which brings up several issues with climate accounting and Global Warming Potential. As noted here, the bill "purports to align New York’s emission accounting methodology with a federal methodology by shifting the measurement of GHG’s (greenhouse...
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Reporting and measuring GHG emissions of your air conditioning systems This post is a general guide to mastering refrigerant emissions reporting. It's a quick and easy (not dirty!) guide to HVAC/R and Scope 1 Emission. Above all, realize this: reporting and compliance around HVAC/R can feel complicated, but it's...
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A bit of background on environmental health and safety, especially around HVAC/R Historically HVAC/R owners/Operators have had the responsibility to track refrigerants only if systems contained 50 pounds or more of refrigerant. Refrigerants are a class of chemicals used in cooling equipment that can cool, people,...
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Companies are becoming more comfortable with reporting on greenhouse gases in their ESG reporting, including carbon dioxide, air pollution, and natural gas. However, there is still one area that many companies aren't reporting on - fugitive emissions, especially as they relate to refrigerant emissions....
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Fugitive emissions software is becoming increasingly important. For example, on March 21, the SEC decided to move forward on making climate disclosure reporting, including Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, required for registered companies....
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If you’re in an ESG (environmental social and governance) leadership role for business models, either as a consultant or in-house expert, GHG emissions are likely to be a large focus within your business strategy....
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Emissions factors are a popular way to capture data about greenhouse gas. They show emissions related data for everything from refrigeration to electricity generation. They also help with showing emissions reported through representative value for content such as ESG reports....
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At the recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, the news about our current global warming trajectory and greenhouse gas emissions was fairly dire. We’ve already warmed the planet +1.2°C over pre-industrial averages (as of the summit in 2021)....
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At Trakref, we're an advocate for proper tracking of fugitive emissions from refrigerants to curb the number of greenhouse gases and air pollution that we're causing to the planet. However, we know many companies are new to refrigerant management and fugitive emissions reporting, especially as...
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Fugitive emissions are gasses, whether natural gas, carbon dioxide, or refrigerant-specific gasses, that are released into the atmosphere accidentally. They're considered hazardous air pollutants and a threat to environmental sustainability, coming from pressure-containing equipment like storage tanks and systems that we see in the air...
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