SAN FRANCISCO, December 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Carbonetworks(TM), a leading software company that provides performance management for energy, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and sustainability solutions, announced today that company leaders will participate in meetings at the COP 15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen as part of the Bright Green delegation.

The Copenhagen climate change talks include leaders from 110 countries, and will be the largest climate conference since the 1997 negotiations in Kyoto, Japan. The aim is to reach political agreements on greenhouse-gas emissions control and to help developing countries adapt to climate change and new technologies available to control emissions.

As part of the Bright Green delegation, Carbonetworks will join 170 of the world's leading companies demonstrating climate solutions. Bright Green is hosted by the Confederation of Danish Industry, Denmark's largest business organization.

Our aim in Copenhagen is to gather the world's leading companies and offer a forum to demonstrate their cutting-edge climate solutions, said Stephan Crawford, Director, United States Commercial Service, US Department of Commerce. Bright Green emphasizes innovation and intelligent technologies as the solution to the global climate challenge, and Carbonetworks is a perfect representative of how technology will fuel the new green economy.

With over a decade of experience, Carbonetworks has helped companies around the world manage and reduce their GHG data on a robust but easy-to-use system. With nearly 8,000 sites implemented to date, its customer base ranges from oil gas, utilities, manufacturing, to telecommunications, technology, financial services, retail, and consumer products.

As an innovator of emissions management solutions, Carbonetworks understands first hand the impact that technology can have on climate change, said Michael Meehan, President and CEO of Carbonetworks. We are pleased to be a part of this historic event, and hope that our participation demonstrates that innovative solutions are in place today to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but we must go farther. Our hope is that by participating in the event we will be able to bring insights back to our customers to help them better navigate the new landscape of climate action and business performance.

For more information on COP15, go to http://en.cop15.dk/ .

For more information on the Bright Green Exhibition, go to http://www.brightgreen.dk/.

About Carbonetworks:

The Carbonetworks(TM) Performance Management Platform provides software and services to help companies around the world run their Energy, GHG and Sustainability initiatives using a consolidated corporate scorecard for measuring performance. The Company has over a decade of experience in the industry and was founded with the goal of enabling companies all over the world to manage and reduce their impact on the environment. With nearly 8,000 sites implemented on its platform and hundreds of companies in over 40 countries in its trading community, Carbonetworks operates the largest carbon management network in the world. For more information, please visit www.carbonetworks.com.

SOURCE: Carbonetworks

CONTACT: Whitney Forster of 463 Communications, +1-202-463-0013,whitney.forster@463.com, for Carbonetworks