As electricity demand rises and many companies and organizations commit to using more clean energy, robust emissions-accounting rules could help determine the pace of decarbonization. This conference will explore best practices for measuring the clean-energy content or carbon dioxide emissions linked to a particular unit of electricity consumption.

The existing greenhouse gas emissions accounting standards have been governed by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol since 1998, but many stakeholders have suggested possible improvements. The conference will bring together a wide array of stakeholders to discuss different approaches to carbon-emissions accounting and their potential to make clean-energy-procurement policies and corporate commitments more effective, in the U.S. and internationally.

View the full event agenda here.

The event will feature a keynote address from Lily Batchelder, professor at NYU School of Law and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for tax policy.

Other speakers will include:

Nkiruka Avila, Meta
Bryan Bollinger, NYU Stern School of Business
Pete Budden, Natural Resources Defense Council
Michael Gergen, Coalition for Green Capital
Michael Macrae, World Resources Institute
Dharik Mallapragada, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Gavin McCormick, WattTime
Katherine Ott, Constellation
Tom Plant, Colorado Public Utilities Commission
Tim Schittekatte, FTI Consulting, MIT Energy Initiative, and Florence School of Regulation
Harry Singh, Goldman Sachs
Parikhit Sinha, Electric Hydrogen
Leehi Yona, Cornell Law School

The conference will be held at NYU School of Law and will be available via livestream.

This event will be affiliate event of Climate Week NYC.

This event has been approved to offer a total of 4.5 New York State CLE credits in the category of Areas of Professional Practice. The credit is both transitional and non-transitional; it is appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys.

This event is co-hosted with the NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Sustainable Engineering Initiative and made possible by the generous support of the NYU Office of Sustainability and the NYU All-University Climate Change Initiative.

Emissions Accounting to Accelerate Decarbonization