METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING AND REPORTING EMISSIONS

• US 20070260405A1
• Filed: 05/04/2007
• Published: 11/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verisae Inc (Fortive Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Verisae Inc (Fortive Corp.)
• Inventors: Hepperla, Paul, McConnell, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 7,440,871 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/24
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/018 Certifying business or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/84 Greenhouse gas [GHG] management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/845 Inventory and reporting systems for greenhouse gases [GHG]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/90 Financial instruments for climate change mitigation, e.g. environmental taxes, subsidies or financing

Abstract

The present invention relates to methods and systems of tracking enterprise gas emissions such as greenhouse gas emissions. The systems and methods relate to collecting or entering data relating to one or more emissions source of an enterprise or an enterprise location, calculating emissions totals, and, according to certain embodiments, generating emissions reports.

Claims

1. A network based emissions tracking system comprising:

a first database comprising a plurality of characteristics relating to an enterprise'"'"'s direct emission sources and indirect emission sources; and

a server comprising software for tracking emissions of the direct emission sources and indirect emission sources based on the plurality of characteristics.

2. A method of tracking an enterprise'"'"'s emissions comprising:

maintaining at a first database a plurality of characteristics relating to the enterprise'"'"'s direct emission sources and indirect emission sources; and

tracking with software emissions of the direct emission sources and indirect emission sources based on the plurality of characteristics.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising quantifying the emissions of the direct and indirect emissions sources based on the plurality of characteristics.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the emissions are quantified as the amount of carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide equivalents emitted.

5. A method of tracking and reporting amounts of greenhouse gas emissions produced by an enterprise, the method comprising:

gathering data corresponding to each of an enterprise'"'"'s emission sources, wherein the enterprise'"'"'s emission sources comprise direct emission sources and indirect emission sources;

storing the data in a database;

calculating on the basis of the data gathered and stored the amount of green house gas emissions produced by each emission source; and

generating an emissions report that comprises the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced by a emission source or plurality of emission sources.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the plurality of emission sources comprises all of the emission sources at a site location.

7. The method claim 5, wherein the plurality of emission sources comprises all of the emission sources of an enterprise.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced is expressed in metric tons of carbon dioxide.