New Climate Registry reporting system due in 2010

Hundreds of organisations that report their greenhouse gas emissions to
The Climate Registry (TCR) will
experience a new and improved online system …..

next year that its makers say will
generate more useful emissions reports.

TCR, a government-supported nonprofit that also plays a role in setting
standards to calculate and verify emissions, plans to debut the next version of
its
Climate
Registry Information System (CRIS) in early 2010.

The enhancements to CRIS include easier use and navigation, bulk data upload,
a more robust verification module, the ability to manage both voluntary and
mandatory reporting programs, and will help TCR manage the system more
efficiently, according to Jennifer Weiss, TCR’s communications director.

The nonprofit recently landed a contract to help the State of Massachusetts
develop a new mandatory emissions reporting program, in addition to a data
collection application created for the State of Nevada. To help develop the next
version of CRIS and the Massachusetts data collection system, TCR chose
Misys Open Source Solutions,
a division of Misys plc, a UK-based banking and healthcare software firm that
has recently made inroads into the burgeoning carbon software market.

The TCR deal is the largest deal Misys has landed in the carbon software
space, a feather in the cap of a company that looks forward to its exposure to
TCR’s 300-plus members, said Rich O’Keefe, the company’s vice president of sales
and services.

In addition to its work with TCR, Misys’ carbon-specific offerings include an
environmental trading platform and
Open Carbon World, an education
and news website that also gives users access to a carbon footprinting tool.

The carbon accounting and management software market has seen an increasing
number of players in recent years as a growing number of companies add
environmental impacts to their performance metrics for compliance and CSR
reasons. A report from Groom Energy Solutions and Greentech Media predicted the
market will double annually in the coming years.

“From our perspective, most of those companies not regulated don’t have the
technology or people in place to measure their carbon footprint,” O’Keefe said.
“We view this as a fairly wide open market.”

This article first appeared on
ClimateBiz.com

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