The goals of the LiveNeutral AEP partnership are to:

• Educate the AEP community on climate change issues and AEP’s strategy and position
• Invite the AEP community to take personal action to reduce their carbon footprint to lessen their personal impact on the environment

As Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) members, LiveNeutral and AEP are committed to market-based solutions to climate change. CCX functions as a kind of stock market for third-party-verified and legally accountable emissions reductions credits. CCX is North America’s only, and the world’s first, global marketplace for integrating voluntary yet legally binding emissions reductions with emissions trading and offsets for all six greenhouse gases. It has 200+ members including AEP, DuPont, and IBM.

If CCX members do not reach their emission reduction goals, they can buy credits from those who make extra reductions or from verified offset projects. Emissions reductions are achieved through increased energy efficiency in member companies operations and offset projects such as methane destruction, agricultural and forestry practices, and renewable energy.

Having joined CCX in 2003, AEP is a founding member and is committed to gradually reduce, avoid or offset its GHG emissions to 6 percent below the average of its 1998 to 2001 emission levels by 2010. Through 2006, AEP had already made significant progress toward this goal, reducing or offsetting about 39 million metric tons of GHG emissions.

In 2005, LiveNeutral joined CCX through its parent organization, Presidio School of Management.