Message from Eli Etzinioi from Tradewater:

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Hi Miriam,

Eli from Tradewater here! It was great to meet you at the Higher Ed Climate Summit session on offsets, and to hear a bit about how you’re navigating climate action planning at UIUC.

I’m looping in Ray Rieling, our lead on refrigerant inventories/quantification, safe destruction, and development of the resulting offsets in partnership with universities. His program is called Tradewater Refrigerant Solutions.

As a reminder, Tradewater is headquartered in Chicago, with our main operations warehouse located in Elk Grove Village. Since you’re nearby, we could potentially arrange a visit to the warehouse which could be a great opportunity for you, colleagues, and sustainability-minded students to learn about how we test, store, and handle these high-GWP gases to prepare them for destruction.

Would you like to set up a chat with Ray and I for some time after this long weekend? We can chat about logistics/timing of a UIUC visit to the warehouse, the opportunity for a refrigerant management inventory/project at UIUC, and any salient questions you have about offsets.

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Miriam forwarded the message to Morgan White, Jen Fratterigo, and Stacey DeLorenzo:

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Hi Jen, Morgan, and Stacey –

I am sharing an email related to an opportunity to earn carbon offsets through the safe destruction of refrigerants. Second Nature is working with Tradewater to develop this opportunity to generate peer-reviewed carbon offsets that could be used to offset a portion of Scope 3 emissions. (This is quite different from third-party verified credits, and these credits could only be used to offset some of our own Scope 3 emissions and could not be sold on the VCM).

Is this something you would be interested in learning more about? I really don’t know what we are currently doing with refrigerant waste – would it first be helpful to talk to someone who handles this directly?

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