Big Blue (IBM) has collaborated with Evergreen Energy (EEE) to create the GreenCert greenhouse gas meter. It's an Internet-based software program designed to collect real-time emissions data from sensors and other sources. It's able to calculate the volume of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere by any company and then certifies any reductions as credits that can be traded on carbon markets.

Currently every company has an electricity and water meter, soon enough a greenhouse gas meter will be desired as well. Companies are chosing to measure their carbon footprints and as industry standards change and evolve to represent global warming driven limits on greenhouse gas emissions companies will need to know their emission amounts so that they can identify strategies of reduction. GreenCert appears to be the easiest way for companies to evolve with industry changes. As C-Lock chief technology officer Patrick Zimmerman, who led the team that developed the greenhouse gas meter states, “The system was designed to very efficiently and accurately quantify greenhouse gas emissions in a way that is transparent, reproducible and easily automated”.

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