Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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the fact that we're talking about a carbon
footprint, I think the opportunity for OBO is to
absolutely be able to measure its carbon footprint
over these facilities across the world.
Interesting, that we're looking at a time
right now where the U.S. is not participating in the
Kyoto Protocol and where the rest of the world,
where most of your opportunities are, already have
some type of regulatory or compliance scheme in
place for climate change. And so we're looking at
it here from a perspective that our congress right
now is still talking about. Right now we have a
voluntary program but most of the rest of the world
has programs that are already regulated.
So the opportunity, I think is really, I
think what you're going to find if you go out and
actually do your footprinting, you're not going to
have as big of a footprint, as most of the
industrialized world is going to have. You
basically have ten-acre site across all of your
facilities.
We're working with companies in private
industry right now and here's what is happening.
They are racing to be the first to set the standard
for where climate change is going, particularly in
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