System and method for tracking environmental emission reductions
First Claim
1. A method of tracking environmental performance of a producer of environmental emissions, the method comprising:
- selecting a production practice of the producer;
selecting a protocol applicable with the production practice for determining at least one of environmental emissions and environmental emissions removal;
collecting production practice data of the producer for a pre-selected time period responsive to the protocol;
converting the production practice data to environmental data using pre-selected conversion factors;
designating a geographical reference for the producer;
converting the environmental data to an emission reduction unit for a transferring thereof; and
assigning an identifier to the emission reduction unit, wherein the identifier includes a sequence portion characterizing a succession thereof and a vintage portion characterizing the pre-selected time period for the production practice, and a characterizing portion characterizing at least one of the geographical reference and the protocol.
3 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A system for tracking environmental performance of a producer of environmental emissions and of associating individual environmental emission reductions to the producer, to a variety of collected data, or both includes selecting a production practice of the producer and an appropriate protocol for converting the production practice to a measure of environmental emissions. An identifier for each quantifiable unit of environmental emissions a sequence portion characterizing a succession of units, a vintage portion characterizing the time period for the production practice, a protocol characterizing portion and a geographical reference portion. Such an identifier allows for a tracking of the processes that resulted in the environmental emissions measurement.
53 Citations
67 Claims
-
1. A method of tracking environmental performance of a producer of environmental emissions, the method comprising:
-
selecting a production practice of the producer;
selecting a protocol applicable with the production practice for determining at least one of environmental emissions and environmental emissions removal;
collecting production practice data of the producer for a pre-selected time period responsive to the protocol;
converting the production practice data to environmental data using pre-selected conversion factors;
designating a geographical reference for the producer;
converting the environmental data to an emission reduction unit for a transferring thereof; and
assigning an identifier to the emission reduction unit, wherein the identifier includes a sequence portion characterizing a succession thereof and a vintage portion characterizing the pre-selected time period for the production practice, and a characterizing portion characterizing at least one of the geographical reference and the protocol. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
-
-
32. A method of tracking environmental performance, the method comprising:
-
collecting production practice data representative of at least one of environmental emissions and environmental emissions removal for a time period;
converting the production practice data to environmental data using pre-selected conversion factors;
designating a geographical reference for the production practice;
converting the environmental data to a plurality of emission reduction units; and
assigning an identifier to each of the plurality of emission reduction units, wherein the identifier includes a sequence portion characterizing a succession thereof, a vintage portion characterizing the time period for the production practice, and a geographical reference portion characterizing the geographical reference. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
-
-
51. A method of tracking environmental emissions, the method comprising:
-
selecting a production practice;
selecting a protocol applicable with the production practice for quantifying at least one of environmental emissions and environmental emissions removal;
collecting production practice data for a pre-selected time period responsive to the protocol;
converting the production practice data to environmental data using the protocol;
designating a geographical reference for the production practice;
converting at least a portion of the environmental data to a plurality of emission reduction units; and
assigning an identifier to each of the plurality of emission reduction units, wherein the identifier includes a sequence portion characterizing a succession thereof and a vintage portion characterizing the pre-selected time period for the production practice, and a characterizing portion characterizing at least one of the geographical reference and the protocol. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67)
-
Specification