Anyone for carbon calculating software at £20,000 a month?

ClimateChangeCorp.com

Climate change is an emerging issue. Few business leaders have appointed senior climate-change directors. The result? Responsibility for climate change is allocated to CSR directors, environment health & safety managers and facilities directors. These people are not visionary buyers of IT solutions for carbon management.

It’s not all doom and gloom though. Powerful drivers on the horizon will push many more firms to consider buying software.

Firstly, as the costs of climate-change legislation ratchet up, there is a business case for optimising carbon management. Consider the case of Drax Group, the UK coal-fired power station operator: expenditure on carbon emissions allowances increased from £11m in the first six months of 2007 to £107m in the same period in 2008. At these levels of expenditure, managing greenhouse gas inventories becomes a priority, easily justifying £20,000 a month for hosted software that optimises GHG inventories and reduction opportunities.