American Water Works Association Free Sponsored Webinar, Presented by InPipe Energy. Climate change puts the water industry at risk and makes the water supply less predictable. This directly impacts the water industry’s ability to meet its primary mission to provide water on demand to its customers, safely and securely. While the water is part of the problem as a major carbon producer and emitter, the water industry is decentralized and risk-averse making it more challenging to implement essential broad-based decarbonization. As climate change accelerates at a rapid pace, there is an urgent need to take action, direct resources, and attention to decarbonization. We do not have the luxury of time. This webinar will focus on addressing actionable opportunities to fund and implement decarbonization initiatives and solutions.
Key Takeaways:
- What solutions are other utilities deploying proven to reduce their carbon footprint and have a ROI?
- How did those efforts come about and why?
- What have other utilities done to tactically reduce carbon (low-hanging fruit) and why?
- What is holding utilities back and how would one create a road map to affect change and overcome challenges such as funding, competing initiatives, climate change bias, securing internal support from staff and the board, etc?
Expert Panel:
- Moderated by Cristina Ahmadpour, President and Managing Director (Americas), Isle Utilities
- Clifford Chan, General Manager, East Bay Municipal Utility District
- George Hawkins, Esq., Founder & CEO, Moonshot Missions (ret. GM of DC Water)
- Austin Alexander, Vice President, Sustainability and Social Impact, Xylem Inc.
- Gregg Semler, CEO & Founder, InPipe Energy