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California Passes Groundbreaking Climate Disclosure Bills

California on the bleeding edge of climate disclosure and climate financial risk reporting… Continue Reading

Navigating the Urban Landscape: London’s Low Emission Zone vs. NYC Congestion Pricing

By Stuart Kaplow on September 10, 2023 Posted in City, Codes and Regulations, GHG, greenhouse gas

London's Low Emission Zone and New York City's proposed Congestion Pricing, while coming from very different places geographically and ideologically, represent dramatic strides in urban planning and environmental stewardship. … Continue Reading

Colorado Law Will Lead the Nation in Reducing GHGs from Buildings

By Stuart Kaplow on August 20, 2023 Posted in GHG, greenhouse gas, State

The Colorado building sector will lead the nation in building energy performance standards and GHG emission reduction … Continue Reading

Offsets and RECs: A Powerful Duo for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Repairing the Planet

By Stuart Kaplow on July 30, 2023 Posted in Climate Change, ESG, GHG, greenhouse gas

Offsets and RECs are two powerful and complementary approaches to combating climate change and repairing the planet.… Continue Reading

Greenhouse Gas Emission Disclosures in Real Estate Contracts and Beyond

By Stuart Kaplow on July 23, 2023 Posted in Environmental, GHG, greenhouse gas

GHG emission disclosures in contracts are a response to the new era of environmental consciousness in business… Continue Reading

Wind Rights are now Blowin’ In The Wind

By Stuart Kaplow on July 16, 2023 Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Environmental, ESG, GHG, wind turbine

The first time any Texas court has held under Texas law that wind rights are severable from the land. … Continue Reading

The Power of Methane: Why Tackling Emissions Is Key to Curbing Climate Change

By Stuart Kaplow on July 9, 2023 Posted in Climate Change, Environmental, ESG, GHG

One pound of methane traps 25 times more heat in the atmosphere than a pound of carbon dioxide… Continue Reading

The Evolution of Environmental Offsets: From Indulgences to Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions

By Stuart Kaplow on June 11, 2023 Posted in Environmental, ESG, GHG, greenhouse gas

Environmental offsets have come a long way since the issuance of indulgences by the medieval church. … Continue Reading

Commercial PACE: Filing the Financing Gap for GHG Reductions in Commercial Building

By Stuart Kaplow on May 20, 2023 Posted in Environmental, ESG, GHG, Green Building

PACE is a game changing solution that empowers commercial building owners to invest in sustainability… Continue Reading

Maryland Releases Draft GHG Regulations to Implement SB 528

By Stuart Kaplow on May 14, 2023 Posted in Climate Change, Codes and Regulations, GHG, greenhouse gas

The Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 through these GHG emission regulations will undoubtedly shape the state's trajectory by decarbonizing the economy.… Continue Reading

Court Saves Gas Stoves from the Government

By Stuart Kaplow on April 23, 2023 Posted in Codes and Regulations, Energy, Environmental, ESG, GHG

This is a significant setback for state and local governments across the country seeking to ban natural gas, directly, indirectly, or otherwise.… Continue Reading

Do You Own Your GHG Emission Data?

By Stuart Kaplow on April 16, 2023 Posted in Climate Change, ESG, GHG, greenhouse gas

Nothing should stop an organization from mitigating the risk associated with its own data safe while monetizing that valuable asset.… Continue Reading

GHG Emissions Poll Provides Strategies for Business

By Stuart Kaplow on April 9, 2023 Posted in GHG, greenhouse gas, Sustainability

Only 14% reported their company today calculates GHG emission data… Continue Reading

You can Participate in our Survey on GHG Emission Measurement

By Stuart Kaplow on February 5, 2023 Posted in ESG, GHG, greenhouse gas, Uncategorized

Our clients and other stakeholders can use these results as they make their company plans for GHG emission measurement, disclosure, and reduction in 2023… Continue Reading

Questions from our webinar “Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws?”

By Stuart Kaplow on January 29, 2023 Posted in Climate Change, Environmental, GHG, greenhouse gas

Your lease must be amended to to take into account GHG emissions… Continue Reading

Does Your Lease Need Greenhouse Gas Provisions?

By Stuart Kaplow on January 22, 2023 Posted in Environmental, ESG, GHG, Green Building, greenhouse gas

The aim of this post, about how to repair the planet through leasing, is to set the stage for new ideas… Continue Reading

Ban the Light Bulb to Repair the World

By Stuart Kaplow on January 15, 2023 Posted in Energy, GHG, Green Building, greenhouse gas

In 2023 there is nothing wrong with doing that better than Thomas Edison in 1860, with LEDs, and repairing the planet.… Continue Reading

First State to Authorize Use of the 2021 IgCC

By Stuart Kaplow on January 8, 2023 Posted in Environmental, GHG, IgCC, Uncategorized

Maryland is on the cusp of being the first state in the country to authorize use of the new 2021 edition of the International Green Construction Code … Continue Reading

Reducing GHG Aiming for Net Zero will be the Environmental Issue of 2023

By Stuart Kaplow on January 1, 2023 Posted in Environmental, GHG, greenhouse gas

Decarbonizing of the economy to repair the planet and make your share of the trillions along the way… Continue Reading

Maryland is the First State to Regulate Carbon

By Stuart Kaplow on December 11, 2022 Posted in Climate Change, Codes and Regulations, GHG

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. Businesses can and should treat this as the greatest responsibility and opportunity of our time. Literally resetting the trajectory of Maryland’s economy, making sweeping changes to the Old Line State’s already … Continue Reading

Net Zero Pledge Standards for Business Released at COP27

By Stuart Kaplow on November 27, 2022 Posted in Climate Change, ESG, GHG

Much has been written in the media about the just concluded UN Climate Conference (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, most of it focusing on the agreement to agree on reparations or more correctly stated, on providing “loss and damage” funding in the future for vulnerable countries hit hard by climate disasters. But the biggest takeaway for … Continue Reading

Low Embodied Carbon Concrete is Here

By Stuart Kaplow on November 20, 2022 Posted in Climate Change, ESG, GHG, State

The golden opportunity in ESG may be in concrete. Embodied carbon refers to the greenhouse gas emissions associated with materials’ manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal. In a building, there is “upfront” embodied carbon in construction and then operational carbon largely from energy consumption. Embodied carbon is particularly important because it contributes more climate changing … Continue Reading

Scope 4 GHG Emissions

By Stuart Kaplow on November 6, 2022 Posted in Climate Change, ESG, GHG, Green Building, Green Washing

Scope 4 greenhouse gas emissions are not new. They date to 2013 when the Greenhouse Gas Protocol identified “avoided emissions” as emission reductions that occur outside of a product’s lifecycle or value chain, but as a result of the use of that product. It was actually a decade ago that the GHG Protocol released “a survey to … Continue Reading