San Francisco - March 27, 2009 ClimateCHECK is pleased to announce that Tom Baumann, CEO ClimateCHECK and co-founder and Director of the GHG Management Institute, has accepted the nomination to Chair the IEEE Climate Change Technology Sub-Committee (CCTSC) of the Energy Development & Power Generation Committee and the Power and Energy Society (www.ieee.org/power).
“I am honoured to accept IEEE’s prestigious nomination to chair this committee and continue to strengthen the standardization of methodologies in measuring environmental attributes that can be common applied amongst IEEE’s association of practitioners”, stated Tom Baumann.
The CCTSC objectives include the field of technology innovation, research and developments in the electricity and transportation industries that assist in reducing the emissions causing climate change (mitigation) and in helping industry and the global community to cope with the climate change already occurring (adaptation).
IEEE is the world’s leading professional association for the advancement of technology. IEEE includes more than 375,000 members including nearly 80,000 student members in more than 160 countries.
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