Measured Green

State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis has announced that New York will be joining 30 other states as charter members of The Climate Registry, an initiative that enables participating states to collect and share greenhouse gas emission data.

The program will assist in measuring, tracking, and verifying emissions of greenhouse gases. It will also provide the measurement and reporting infrastructure to support voluntary, mandatory, market-based and emissions reduction programs that are consistent across borders and industry sectors. The registry will begin accepting emissions data in January 2008.

"In his 2007 State of the State Address, Governor Eliot Spitzer specifically cited the need to link and expand climate change initiatives with other states in order to build upon New York's existing greenhouse gas reduction programs," Grannis said. "The Climate Registry will be an important tool to support the exchange of information that will serve as the basis for additional innovative and necessary approaches to reduce the impacts of climate change in our state and nation."

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