U.s. Policy Action Necessary to Ensure Accurate Assessment of the Air Emission Reduction Benefits of Increased Use of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technologies

Policies encouraging energy efficiency and renewable energy (“EERE”) technologies need to ensure that the air emission reduction benefits of these technologies are calculated accurately. Otherwise, the market will not fully capture their important economic and social benefits. Federal, state, and local governments and private entities have developed protocols for reporting greenhouse gases (“GHG”) and other air emissions. Many of these protocols have been designed to allow emissions from individual sources to be aggregated into total emissions for an entire entity, such as a corporation or a governmental body, while