As the White House and Congress shift to more stringent environmental policy, and the EPA increases climate change legislation, implementing a refrigerant compliance plan is more critical to your supply chain and manufacturing operations than ever. Significant new recordkeeping and reporting rules are coming into effect as early as January 2010. Under current law, hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) systems are permitted to leak refrigerant and are exempt from any repair requirements. This is changing rapidly as the U.S. and other federal/state/provincial governments begin to adopt regulations limiting release of HFC refrigerants.
Download this WHITE PAPER to learn about:
•    Regulatory changes sweeping through plant and manufacturing operations
•    Your sustainability strategy and the critical role of refrigerant management
•    The fundamental components of a refrigerant management program
•    Companies that are managing environmental risks facing the supply chain
•    And more...
This paper provides a brief background on the history and current evolution around HFC-based refrigerants, and guidance on how companies can best position themselves now with management and information systems.
The Executive’s Guide to Global Climate Change
Compliance from the Plant Floor to the Boardroom

With increasing public concern about corporate responsibility and sustainability, organizations worldwide are looking for ways to reduce their environmental footprint, efficiently monitor greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, limit costly workplace injuries and mitigate business disruption from unplanned incidents. Yet in today's challenging economy, investments in the environmental, safety, and social domain are being carefully scrutinized, including those that are IT-related.
The good news is that Sustainability IT projects have strong business cases, and that these can even be more compelling in a tough economy. This paper focuses on the IT systems supporting sustainability performance, addressing:
•    Solid business reasons that Corporate Responsibility matters in today’s economy, including real-life examples.
•    Ways to establish an enterprise foundation for triple bottom-line data, and build the house of sustainability one system at a time.
•    Keys to keeping risk low during system implementation.
•    A practical, hands-on approach for justifying a sustainability IT investment

Global climate change is a phenomenon that is creating unprecedented business challenges that are being felt from the production floor to the boardroom. Top-line and bottom-line growth can be threatened by new risks while growing interest in corporate eco-efficiency by both consumers and investors is creating new business opportunities. Broad-based interest in the potential impact of global climate change highlights the need for complete, accurate, and comparable data in order to make effective business decisions. The criticality and complexity of the information dictate that a comprehensive information management strategy will be required to address the increasingly critical nature of global climate change.