Climate Action 2012-2013

SPECIAL FEATURE
FOSTERING CLIMATE CHANGE
PRACTICES IN LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES
POCH is a leading Chilean engineering and
environmental consultancy firm with over 23
years of experience in the Latin American market.
Currently operating in Chile, Brazil, Peru, and
Colombia, the group also has two commercial
offices in Chicago and Australia.
Our vision is to help our clients managing the
transition to a low-carbon, sustainable future. In
every new project and challenge we undertake
we start with a detailed analysis of the needs
and the possible paths forward, we devise or
apply the best technologies, as well as the most
suitable organisational and strategic practices
and innovations, with a clear focus on long term
environmental sustainability.
POCH Ambiental, the group’s environmental
consultancy branch, has been fostering Climate
Change policy and mitigation actions through
long lasting relationships with both industrial
and corporate actors from the private sector and
institutional policy makers at the national and
multilateral scale. Our multi-disciplinary team
provides services in climate change mitigation,
carbon markets, environmental management, policy
analysis and strategic design, prospective studies
and scenario development, sustainable urban and
energy infrastructure and other related fields.
Some of the key services in the climate change
and sustainability area are:
GHG EMISSION ABATEMENT, CDM AND
CARBON MARKETS
We provide services from GHG emission
inventories and projection studies, to the full
cycle of carbon abatement projects (both CDM
and voluntary markets) from identification to
emission reductions issuance, carbon foot-printing
and carbon management strategies in the waste,
energy and agro-forestry sectors.
CLIMATE CHANGE MRV AND NEW OFFSET
MECHANISMS
We are leading the development of new tools,
methodologies and offset options for the future
of the climate change regime. We have designed
a Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV)
system to be implemented by the Chilean
Renewable Energy Centre to keep track of
emission reductions and co-benefits in the form
of financing, capacity building and technological
change, from all renewable energy projects in the
country. We have also developed NAMAs proposals
and analysed new bilateral offset mechanisms with
MRV systems for Latin American countries.
SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
We are members of the U.S. Green Building
Council and as such we provide expert advice
and consultancy services in green building and
LEED certification. Our comprehensive energy
management delivers consultancy to our clients
in order to achieve the optimal economic and
environmental energy performance through energy
audits, energy modeling, and commissioning.
LEED and energy efficiency projects support
the design, construction and operation criteria
for architecture, mechanical, electrical, plumbing
systems, and specialised design of renewable energy
and wastewater treatment systems. We have also
contributed to the design and implementation of
energy efficiency policies and programs.
With our experience, we are prepared to partner
with industrial and corporate players and with
governments throughout the Latin American
continent to strategically design and bring about a
more sustainable world.
POCH Ambiental Latin America
Luis Costa
Director of Sustainability Services
Tel: +562 2074154
Email: luis.costa@poch.cl
Web: www.pochcorp.com
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