Methane is one of the most significant pollutants driving climate change, and its reduction is now a top priority for organizations worldwide. Cority’s Methane Emissions Reduction Management (MERM) solution—part of the Air Emissions Management offering within Cority’s Environmental Cloud—provides the scalability and flexibility to manage a variety of scenarios for high volumes of data transactions and deviations from pre-defined thresholds.
Powered by Cority’s best-in-class calculation engine and built on the multi-award winning and industry-wide best in class CorityOne platform, MERM enables real-time air emissions monitoring, automated calculations, and data-driven insights. This robust functionality not only helps businesses stay ahead of evolving regulatory requirements but also supports broader sustainability initiatives by allowing methane data to be integrated with overall sustainability metrics. Cority’s robust calculation engine functionality is also used across its EHS fields with a robust industrial hygiene functionality for radiation and noise & equipment to support a variety of industries to proactively manage worker health. By providing accurate exposure assessments, risk analysis, and regulatory compliance tools, this product ensures that employees are protected from hazardous conditions.
The innovative MERM solution expands Cority’s market-leading SaaS Environmental Cloud available within CorityOne, the company’s integrated EHS platform. This environmental-focused suite of products connects the MERM solution to waste, wastewater, and other air emission monitoring modules. Further scale and business-forward configurability avenues are found within the broader CorityOne ecosystem, specifically with the Sustainability Cloud, which can tie these data points to international frameworks, reporting guidelines, and regulations.
In 2022, the U.S. Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which promotes greater investment in clean energy and includes a new tax on methane emissions above specified thresholds. MERM helps organizations proactively address these changing regulations by automating emissions tracking and facilitating compliance. Companies can configure the platform to meet their unique operational and regional needs—essential given the varied methane-related requirements across different industries and geographies.
Beyond compliance, Cority’s Air Emissions Management sets organizations up for long-term environmental performance success. By centralizing vital emissions data and consolidating workflows, businesses gain insight into enterprise-wide emissions trends, enabling them to mitigate risks associated with fines, penalties, audits, and international trade partner requirements. Given the solution’s advanced configurability, organizations can adapt swiftly to new regulations without making costly and time-consuming system overhauls. State, regional, and global business may be impacted by future methane taxes or regulatory changes, MERM provides a future-proof framework to reduce emissions, demonstrate sustainability progress, and enhance stakeholder trust. Despite updates in legislation updates, a long-term view remains that keeping air clean, communities safe, and sustainability a key focus will continue to be of key importance.
A major advantage of the Environmental Cloud is its ability to connect environmental data across an entire enterprise. Many companies struggle with fragmented environmental reporting, where different departments use separate systems that do not communicate with one another. In addition to simplifying compliance, the Environmental Cloud supports data quality assurance, a crucial factor in emissions management. Inaccurate data can lead to regulatory penalties or misinformed decision-making. To prevent this, Cority’s platform includes automated data validation checks, variance analysis tools, and customizable approval workflows, ensuring that emissions data is both accurate and audit ready.
Cority’s CorityOne platform brings together all the Cority solutions into a unified interface, which eliminates inefficiencies by standardizing data collection across the environmental, sustainability, waste management, quality, safety, and health solutions, and provides a centralized dashboard where businesses can monitor performance across multiple sites and jurisdictions. This level of integration is critical for multinational corporations that must comply with a range of regulations across different regions, monitor data in real-time, and maintain a complete overview.
As environmental impact guidance and regulations continue to evolve, businesses will need technology that helps them anticipate compliance risks, manage emissions proactively, and demonstrate progress toward sustainability goals. Cority’s Environmental Cloud is just one part of the CorityOne platform, the comprehensive EHS and sustainability SaaS-based platform, spanning the full spectrum of environmental, health, safety, quality, sustainability, and analytics programs. CorityOne offers a comprehensive, scalable, and configurable approach to meeting developing demands, ensuring that organizations not only comply with regulations but also improve overall performance.
With factors like methane playing such a significant role in climate change, solutions that enable businesses to track, reduce, and report emissions accurately will become increasingly essential Cority’s award-winning platform provides organizations with the tools they need to meet these challenges head-on, setting a new standard for methane management and environmental compliance.
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