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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Analysis and Planning Service 'Teal' Launched by Noblis

Posted on: Thursday, 14 May 2009, 10:54 CDT

Leveraging 13-years of Experience Through its Environmental Practice, Noblis Develops a Software-as-a-Service Application - Also Launches GREEN.Noblis.Org Portal

FALLS CHURCH, Va., May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Noblis, Inc., a nonprofit science, technology and strategy organization, today announced the availability of a new suite of analytic tools to help organizations assess and plan their sustainability strategies.

TEAL (Total Emissions Analytics) is a full-featured, yet easy-to-use emissions assessment and strategic planning tool for the enterprise. The web-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) application can be used to evaluate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, calculate carbon footprints, and baseline energy use. In addition, the tool is used to evaluate what-if scenarios, calculate the emissions impacts of shifting corporate practices and policies, and visualize an enterprise's emissions across a broad geographic area. TEAL also has a return on investment (ROI) component for analyzing investments in greening IT equipment and lighting. The reporting function produces ISO compliant reports and benchmarks performance against goals and best practices. While TEAL is specifically developed for professional services organizations in the commercial sector, a version of the tool is also being made available to U.S. government agencies through the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).

According to Noblis President and Chief Executive Officer Amr ElSawy, "We needed a sophisticated, yet easy to use, capability to implement and benchmark our sustainability practices and results. Simple carbon footprint calculators were not scalable to the enterprise. We expect the availability of the TEAL service to help enable professional service organizations and governments to think strategically about their business processes and "green" investments. We are very proud of our collaboration and work with the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) and the Greater Washington Board of Trade (GWBOT) to establish our region as a leader in implementing effective sustainability strategies and will work with them to make the TEAL service accessible to their member organizations."

According to Bob Wassmann, who leads the Noblis work on TEAL, "With the emphasis the White House is placing on limiting emissions and the potential for cap-and-trade protocols, taking an enterprise perspective is becoming much more critical."

Access to TEAL services will be through green.noblis.org -- a destination resource for news and information on climate, energy and sustainability topics. Users of the green.noblis.org portal will have access to multichannel content on carbon emissions and the energy efficiency of buildings. The Web site will provide managers and executives concerned about the carbon impact of their organizations with the necessary information and tools to help them stay abreast of key events, reduce their carbon footprint, and mitigate their carbon emissions.

For more information on TEAL visit http://green.noblis.org/

About Noblis

Noblis is a nonprofit, science, technology and strategy organization solving complex scientific, systems, process, and infrastructure problems in ways that benefit the public. Noblis has been a proponent of environmentally sustainable business practices for more than 13 years both within its organization and in partnership with its customers. Noblis brings the best of scientific thought, engineering know-how, and strategic insight to find solutions that are sound, actionable, and sustainable. You will find Noblis at work in many fields, including healthcare; national security; transportation; criminal justice; energy and the environment; and oceans, atmosphere and space. Further information is available at noblis.org.

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