Miranda Mair - Senior Carbon Advisor at ENGIE Impact

Carbon Accounting and Management Podcast

Miranda Mair is a Senior Carbon Advisor at ENGIE Impact, where she is excited to have an opportunity to help her clients tackle the environmental challenges that come with a changing climate and energy landscape. Miranda’s background as a broadcast meteorologist helps her every day as she guides clients through the science of greenhouse gas assessments and climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts, as well as complex air quality analyses. Her favorite part is communicating these approaches and results to stakeholders, which she learned to do early on as a broadcast meteorologist at the start of her career. These days she’s less focused on the local 7-day forecast and more concerned with how to make a positive impact globally for our next several decades.

Miranda Joins the Carbon Accounting and Management Podcast to Discuss:

• Advice for getting started, collecting data, and setting organizational boundaries
• Ancillary benefits of carbon inventories
• Target reductions
• Tips for rebaselining as data collection processes improve
• Inventory management plans

Miranda's Listener Takeaway: If there's only one thing that our guests take away from this conversation, what do you think it should be?

Carbon is currency, and you need to have good accountants working with you. As a company that has carbon software, software can be a great tool, but if you are any more complex, you probably want to have some consultants and some great advice and carbon advisors to help you through that process. I liken it to doing your taxes. Most people can get by doing their taxes if you have a fairly simple portfolio of assets. But if you start to have a lot of balls in the air, you're going to want to hire a good tax accountant because it makes a big difference. You wouldn't be using TurboTax for your corporate taxes for a business. I think framing it like that helps people realize that you really do get some value from having someone help guide you through this process and help to uncover areas that you can improve, ways that you can make this easier, and make it repeatable year over year.

Learn more about Miranda Mair on LinkedIn and learn more about the work being done at ENGIE Impact at https://www.engieimpact.com/.

Timestamps:

04:29 Asking questions to meet client needs.

06:51 Start with everything!

11:39 Identify energy inefficiencies with a carbon inventory.

14:40 Better data informs choices, reduces carbon impacts.

19:43 Changing methodology affects data accuracy and tracking.

20:36 Compare, track trends and adjust to inform strategy.

25:33 Tracking CDP, GHG Protocol, and disclosures.

27:40 Effective communication and education drive environmental initiatives.