Bridging energy efficiency and carbon accounting

You have probably experienced this situation before. You have an idea for a project that you believe is important and innovative. But you don’t have funding for it, and are not exactly sure how to accomplish it. Yet, convinced of its potential, you charge ahead anyway, expecting to plan as you go. You struggle, make progress, get frustrated, get distracted by other projects, recommit to it, and cycle through the same progression again and again. Years go by…

In our case, it has been four years. And this particular story, fortunately, has a happy ending. Today, I am pleased (and relieved) to announce the launch of our new course on GHG Accounting for Energy Efficiency Projects.

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How do you explain additionality?

If you have worked in the climate change space for very long, you have likely faced this question in one form or another. Try explaining carbon offsets to your sister-in-law and you have two choices. Either you give her a superficial response in an attempt to change the subject or you dive in and try and explain offsets. If you chose the latter, you will find it near impossible to avoid the concepts of a baseline and additionality.

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Was Durban a success or failure? A holiday edition.

It’s December, a month best characterized in many parts of the world by holiday cheer, winter revelry, and reflection of the year that’s about to draw to a close. But for those following international climate negotiations, the end of the year also marks the season for another brand of reflection: deriving meaning from the annual UNFCCC Conference of the Parties.

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New issue of GHG Measurement & Management now available

The latest issue of Greenhouse Gas Measurement & Management (GHGMM) is now available. A collaboration between the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute and international publishing house Taylor & Francis, GHGMM is a scholarly forum for reliable peer-reviewed research and information on a broad range of issues relating to the measurement, accounting, and management of GHG emissions.

The latest issue of GHGMM can be accessed online here. The journal is available free of charge to GHGMI Premium Members. Access instructions for GHGMI Premium Members are available here. Not a GHGMI Premium Member? Click here to learn more or sign up.

New GHGMI authored article on MRV design published in March 2012 edition of Carbon Trading magazine

A new article advocating for the design of GHG measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) institutions that foster and promote a professional class of climate change practitioners is now available in the March 2012 edition of Carbon Trading magazine. The article, “Out from Under the Sprawling Tent: Action on MRV design now will bring benefits in the long term” was authored by GHGMI staffer Tim Stumhofer and can be read in the online edition of the magazine here.

Professional associations invited to take Climate Change leadership

17 November 2011

Vancouver – West Coast Environmental Law, a non-profit environmental law organization, today released a report – Professionals and Climate Change: How professional associations can get serious about global warming. This report is perhaps the first in the world to examine the implications of climate change for professional associations regulating the qualifications and activities of resource and planning professionals, such as engineers, biologists, lawyers, architects and others.

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