ATLANTA – The ECIA Executive Conference Committee is pleased to announce the speaker for the session on carbon emissions regulations will be Gregory Norris, MIT. With global carbon emissions reporting on the minds of executives in the electronic component industry, the ‘E’ in ESG has never been more important. This session will focus on sustainability, carbon emissions and reporting. What do we need to know now? How do we prepare? What is to come later?

Gregory Norris directs SHINE (the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise) at MIT, where he advances and applies methods for creating handprints, which are positive sustainability impacts outside the scope of the actor’s footprint. He has also taught Life Cycle Assessment (and handprinting) at Harvard for the past 25 years.

Norris is Vice President for Life Cycle Sustainability at the Green Building Alliance, where he helps small and medium enterprises and communities to reduce their footprints and create handprints. Norris co-founded and is Director of Science at Earthster.org, a web-based platform democratizing LCA. He is a Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, which seeks to build a scientific understanding of the mind to reduce suffering and promote well-being. In 2012 Time Magazine named his work on Handprints as one of “10 ideas that are changing your life.”

“This topic was high on the priority list from our member survey,” explained Stephanie Tierney, ECIA’s Director of Member Engagement. “Compliance is a fast-moving target. ECIA’s Global Industry Practices Committee (GIPC) has been closely watching the global regulatory environment in order to keep members updated on what the components industry needs to do.”

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