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• Climate Change Action on College Campuses -- Getting Started. What can your college or university do to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions?

• Executive Summary. Climate change is a global challenge with serious consequences for our social and economic infrastructure as well as the natural environment.

• Selected images from Hot Climate, Cool Commerce.

• Introduction. Businesses of all types are discovering that climate change poses both challenges and opportunities.
• Box 1: The GHG Protocol
• Who can/should use this guide?
• Box 2: Walking the Talk at WRI
• What is Global Climate Change?
• Box 3: Greenhouse Gases
• What are the effects of climate change?
• Notes
• Appendix 3: References and resources
• Appendix 4: Glossary of terms

• Case Study A: Ecomagination Evolution: How GE's Inventory Supported the Foundation of an Innovative Business Strategy. General Electric (GE), a global, diversified corporation found that creating a GHG inventory enabled it to better identify its opportunities for emission reductions.

• Case Study B: Including Emissions That Matter: IKEA and DHL Express Nordic Count Their Core Business Scope 3 Emissions. Including relevant scope 3 emissions in a GHG inventory ensures that it is complete and may provide companies with innovative opportunities to reduce emissions.

• Case Study C: Cone Inc.: Using Paper Use Reduction to Communicate its Climate Change Commitment to Employees. Cone Inc., a strategic marketing and communications agency that helps its clients with corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy and communications, decided to develop a GHG inventory to demonstrate to its stakeholders its environmental commitment

• Case Study D: What's In and What's Out: Coastal Enterprise Inc.'s Organizational Boundary Decision Process. CEI wanted to make sure that the emission sources it could directly affect through GHG management strategies could be categorized as scope 1 or 2 and that those GHG sources over which it had little control would be categorized as scope 3.

• Case Study E: World Resources Institute: Innovations in Estimating Employee Commuting Emissions. WRI created a tool to automate the calculation of emissions from its employees' commuting.

• Case Study F: United Nations Foundation: Designing an Emissions Data Collection and Management System in a Small Organization. An important part of a GHG management program is the design of an efficient data collection system to construct and consistently replicate inventories from year to year.

• Case Study G: Staples' Experience with Third-Party Billing: An Activity Data Management Success. Staples, the office products company, uses its existing energy management system to gather activity data for its GHG inventory.