The Carbon Economy: Calculating, Managing, and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Marlon Banta has worked with organizations to help mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions since 2013. He graduated in 1996 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a BSME and earned an ALM in sustainability and environmental management in 2013 at the Harvard Extension School. Banta is currently a director in the Product Definition team at DS SolidWorks Co.

Rich Goode is a managing director at Alvarez & Marsal's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) services practice. Goode has experience in designing, developing, and implementing sustainability ESG programs at large organizations and financial institutions as well as expertise in carbon accounting, supply chain sustainability, and ESG strategy development. Goode has over twenty-five years of experience working in high technology, medical technology, and heavy manufacturing industries. Prior to Alvarez & Marsal, Goode was one of the early members of Ernst & Young's climate change and sustainability services practice. Under his leadership, the practice was named the number one sustainability consulting practice in the United States by Verdantix. Goode also held leadership positions with Alcatel-Lucent, a Paris-based supplier of telecommunications equipment. Goode worked in operations and product management with profit and loss responsibility and most recently was the company's first ever head of global sustainability. Under Goode's leadership, the company was recognized as having a top five greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting program in the Environmental Tracking Global 800 Report, published by the Environmental Investment Organization. Goode previously taught a course on sustainable product development at Tufts University School of Engineering and teaches two courses on GHG accounting and its linkage to ESG reporting at the Harvard Extension School.