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GHG Account India recently got its first Energy and Green House Gas Accounting Cell in a business school. The cell's core activity will be accounting for all types of green house gases (GHGs). It will also help public and private sector organisations in energy and environmental planning, carbon trading and energy audit. It has been established at the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM), a premier management institute in Kolkata, West Bengal. It is a joint effort of IISWBMand Energy Wise India, a USAID project.

"This is for the first time in the country that a business school has come up with such a cell. There were only independent consultants so far. We will now start capacity building,' says Chinmoy Jana of IISWBM's Energy Management Stream. "For the next six months we will be part of the USAIDproject and funding is not a problem...But we have to sustain ourselves and so in future we will charge the companies for consultancy. It should be in the form of paying our actuals, maintenance charges for our machines and equipment, and the like. So consultancy fee will sustain us.' Energy Wise India representative Shehnaz Atcha claims: "This cell is actually the first step towards energy conservation and will provide IISWBM students and faculty the scope to work with the industry.' The cell will account for all sources of emissions, including emissions from public vehicles in Kolkata. "We plan to approach the West Bengal transport department for that,' Jana reveals.

He adds that IISWBM will soon approach the Union government with regard to making the latter the nodal agency for the cell's Clean Development Mechanism projects.

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