Climate Change Solutions
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Implementing a reasoned and proven approach to GHG reduction starts with developing an understanding of the requirements and risks and subsequent development of the processes you will employ to manage and report your progress.

Risk Assessment Services

Risk Quantification

Black & Veatch works with clients to assess potential cost impacts and uncertainty of current and future levels of CO2 production assuming various mandatory GHG reduction requirements/regime. This critical information can be used in:

  • shareholder reports;
  • integrated resource plans;
  • acquisition due diligence/asset valuations; and
  • strategic planning for future risk management and business opportunities.

Diversification Analysis

Black & Veatch’s diversification analysis covers a thorough review of a client’s current portfolio and/or planned acquired assets. In performing the detailed analysis, considerations include:

  • physical locations and dependency on water and fuel supplies;
  • produced carbon from the portfolio;
  • competitor comparisons; and/or
  • currently available and emerging technologies used in the same industry sector.

Regulatory Market Assessments

Black & Veatch relies on its experience and analysis to identify the potential effects of various regulatory cap-and-trade or carbon tax scenarios on the current and future compliance costs on a company’s short- and long-term business plans. These assessments factor the:

  • direct (tax or cap-and-trade) and indirect (fuel price adjustment due to different dispatch or load profile);
  • loss of load from conversion; and
  • industry moving to more economically favorable CO2 environments.

Greenhouse Gasses (GHG) Reduction Services