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Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch Achieves Climate Registered™ Status
Dec 14, 2009
Reporting emissions to The Climate Registry fits with firm’s long-term efforts to make operations more sustainable
Engineering design and consulting firm Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch (M+NLB) has achieved Climate Registered™ status by successfully registering its comprehensive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory with The Climate Registry (The Registry), a nonprofit organization created by North American states, provinces, territories and Native Sovereign Nations. The Registry sets consistent and transparent standards to calculate, verify and publicly report GHG emissions.
Climate Registered is the first step in a successful GHG emissions management and reduction strategy. By establishing a clear and consistent inventory of these emissions through The Registry, M+NLB gains insight into its operations and processes, and is better prepared for the potential impact of any new associated regulations, including those currently being considered in the U.S. Senate and approaches currently being deliberated at the U.N. Climate Change Conference, which began December 7.
“Organizations that are Climate Registered are the true environmental leaders setting examples for others within their industries and communities. They work ahead of the curve and have voluntarily taken responsibility for reporting their emissions according to the most rigorous standards available,” said Diane Wittenberg, Executive Director of The Registry.
M+NLB’s firm-wide sustainability initiative includes working with local jurisdictions in which their offices are located to achieve “green office” certifications. Where these kinds of programs do not exist, they are working to help establish pilot projects for green office certifications. As a result, the firm was named the first Portland, Oregon Climate Champion in June. M+NLB’s corporate headquarters is also working towards certification as a San Francisco “Green Business” by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, SF Environment, and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.
The firm has also signed on to the 2030 Challenge, an industry-wide commitment to design, renovate and construct buildings that reduce GHG emissions and eventually make all buildings carbon-neutral by 2030. As part of this effort, M+NLB will conduct its own annual GHG emissions inventories with a goal of reduction each year.
“We began greening our business years ago, because one of our core values is to do what’s right,” said Walt Vernon, M+NLB CEO. “We can’t be telling our clients they should reduce their environmental footprint unless we are doing it ourselves.”
About The Climate Registry
The Climate Registry is a nonprofit collaboration among North American states, provinces, territories and Native Sovereign Nations that sets consistent and transparent standards to calculate, verify and publicly report GHG emissions into a single registry. The Registry supports both voluntary and mandatory reporting programs and provides comprehensive, accurate data to reduce GHG emissions. For more information please visit http://www.theclimateregistry.org.
About Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch
Founded in 1962, M+NLB is a full-service mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and technology engineering consulting and design firm, also providing value-added commissioning, equipment planning and procurement, and climate change consulting services. It has offices in San Francisco, Irvine, and Sacramento, Calif.; Portland, Ore.; Nashville, Tenn.; Denver, Colo.; Baton Rouge, La., and Houston, Tex. It is one of the first engineering companies in the U.S. to add a climate consulting practice to its list of client services. The firm is a three-time winner of the Practice Greenhealth Champion for Change Award, the first Portland business to be recognized as a BEST Business Center Portland Climate Champion, and a winner of the Colorado Environmental Leadership Award (silver tier). For more information please visit http://www.mazzetti.com.
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