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Newmont North America Achieves Climate Registered Status
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Newmont is among the leading North American companies honored this year by The Climate Registry (TCR) for achieving "Climate Registered™" status. TCR is a rigorous program that requires participating companies to measure their carbon footprint, verify the findings with an independent third party and publicly report the results.
Newmont first reported the 2008 greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the TS Power Plant (our largest emitter) to TCR. In 2009, we reported North American emissions (which are currently being verified), and plan to report our global carbon footprint in 2011. Newmont's Climate Change program manager, Michael Aire, said the company is in the process of setting a global GHG reduction goal as well.
"Becoming Climate Registered™ isn't easy," said Diane Wittenberg, TCR executive director. "These organizations have measured and verified their GHG footprints with accuracy and transparency. No greenwashing here; that's real environmental leadership."
According to Dennis Laybourn, environmental manager for Newmont's TS Power Plant, achieving this status was "significant in that Newmont had to develop internal systems to quantify and track GHG emissions from all sources. Verification was particularly rigorous in that the basis for all emission calculations had to be demonstrated."
November 30, 2010