Sustainability Reporting and Greenhouse Gas Management—Sensing Market Trends and Evolution in U.S. Manufacturing

The survey data demonstrates that the market today is looking toward reporting platforms as a basis for risk-minimized compliance. This seems to be the case independent of energy-intensive versus non-intensive sectors. Vendors should focus sales execution on minimization of anxieties around the difficulties associated with potential reporting reliability and accuracy. Current marketing strategies should focus on laying a foundation for longer term benefits realization. This means focusing on the basics of data collection, reporting, and presentation today and evolving from these descriptive analytics to more discovery analytics and modeling and simulation approaches in the future.