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Carbon Footprint Modeling With SAS for Sustainability Management: Beyond Calculation

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Overview This paper will explain the differences between calculating and modeling emissions, the critical parallels between cost and GreenHouse Gas (GHG) accounting, collecting and managing data, and using activity-based modeling practices to gain invaluable insight from such efforts. Readers will be able to see how the technologies that are part of the SAS for Sustainability Management solutions help enable these insights, and provide a way to manage and forecast consumption of economic and natural resources.

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Publisher	SAS Institute	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Knowledge and Data Management

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