Greenhouse Gas Inventories and Strategies

Develop Accurate Inventories and Calculate GHG Emissions

SAIC helps individual agencies and organizations address the complexities of accounting for GHG emissions. We develop accurate GHG inventories, also known as carbon footprints, using recognized methods and protocols. Because each business is unique, we help define scopes, ownership boundaries, and materiality of GHG impacts on a case-by-case basis to ensure that each inventory is complete and accurate.

Understand Industry-Specific Implications

In addition to helping individual organizations, SAIC develops detailed, sector-specific GHG protocols that help business and industry sectors accurately calculate emissions. This includes protocols for the oil and gas sectors and electricity generation.

Determine Comprehensive Response Strategies and Action Plans

Unpredictable energy costs and tighter regulations for GHG emissions are driving many types of organizations to re-evaluate their GHG objectives. After completing a full GHG inventory, SAIC helps clients develop comprehensive plans for modeling impacts of emerging legislation, forecasting future emissions, evaluating internal reduction options, and purchasing high quality GHG offsets. To develop the plan, SAIC assesses a client's unique circumstances and provides comprehensive climate change response strategies that are tailored to their needs.

Develop Effective Inventory Management Plans and Systems

SAIC works with organizations to design GHG inventory management plans that align with strategic objectives, including desired voluntary and mandatory GHG reporting requirements. This includes developing or selecting a GHG inventory management system, defining a management approach, establishing quality assurance and quality control procedures, and documenting all methods and assumptions. SAIC also helps manage inventories over time and implement emissions-reducing projects that deliver results.

Implement GHG Reduction Strategies through Capital Improvements

As a full service architect, engineering, and design-build provider, SAIC can help deliver the visions established in GHG management plans by implementing energy-efficient capital improvements. From increasing process efficiency to constructing new energy-generation facilities or switching to cleaner fuels, SAIC's expertise in implementing sustainable and low-emission facilities helps deliver the necessary results.