How do we get more than 94 people at AspenTech (about 2.5% of the people) to participate in something like this? Initiatives like this are important to make Sustainability more than a marketing exercise, but instead a way for the organization to think about its outward face to the world, and it would seem to start with every person's own awareness, in my opinion.

Here is the link to the globe article on rising sea levels:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/29/science/climate-change-mbta-sea-level-rise/?s_campaign=bostonglobe:push:web

Boston, a coastline harbor city (one of the oldest trade locations in the US) has an upcoming climate problem. The only building in Boston built so far with rising coastlines in mind, is the new Casino opened a couple of years ago (I guess the idea is people can gamble while the city floods). An interesting article in today's Boston Globe outlines upcoming challenges to the "T" (the city's subway, train and bus system) from rising sea levels

Trees capture CO2, but other plants do too. Grasslands also contribute to CO2 capture. Although in the current CO2 accounting and credit methodologies, trees "count" for carbon removal and grasslands don't, grasslands are also important. A recent study performed in California show that with the uptick in major forest fires in California (and forest fires undo the capture benefits from those forests, releasing back CO2 into the atmosphere) grasslands are equal or more valuable at present in California. This only points out the need to understand the details -- and the need for AspenTech to understand the details in our development and marketing of CO2 tracking. Of course, we need to "follow" the regulations, but we can also lead in some forums.