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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16 November 2011

Beijing and Washington, DC – The Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (iCET), a leading think tank on climate change and sustainable development in China, and the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute (GHGMI), an international non-profit organization founded to build professional capacity in measuring, reporting, verifying, and managing GHG emissions, have partnered to bring an international training curriculum on GHG accounting and verification to climate change practitioners throughout China.

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The Institute is excited to announce the launch of a new sectoral course: GHG Accounting for Forest and Other Land Use Projects. The new course, the latest addition to the Institute’s online course catalogue, provides in-depth instruction on GHG accounting at the project level for forest and other land use activities. The course is focused on reforestation, forest management, and avoided deforestation projects; and also provides information relevant to revegetation and agricultural soil carbon projects.

This course launch comes on the wave of renewed and invigorated interest in forest carbon accounting. Indeed the course is perhaps the Institute’s most widely anticipated.

Enrollment for the course, instructed by forest carbon expert Penny Baalman, is now open. Sign up information and a more in-depth course description is available on the course page.

Greenhouse Gas Measurement & Management, GHGMI’s new peer-reviewed journal was mentioned in a discussion of greenhouse gas measurement on the Feb. 1 edition of BBC4’s Home Planet. A recording of the show is available online here (the discussion of GHG measurement begins at ~18:05).

For more on the Greenhouse Gas Measurement & Management journal please visit the journal’s homepage.

The following article just posted at Greenbiz: Current Shortage of GHG Professionals Likely to Get Worse.

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On Oct 1 GHGMI Dean Michael Gillenwater participated in a panel discussion, “Taking Stock of Carbon Emissions: Policies, Strategies, and Tools for the U.S. and China” at the Woodrow Wilson Center International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Michael’s presentation focused on the broader issues of measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) of greenhouse gas emissions, and the current international MRV framework under the Kyoto Protocol.

A video of Michael’s presentation and the entire discussion is available online at: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1421&fuseaction=topics.event_summary&event_id=635366

The Institute recently developed two topical “issue briefs” covering key GHG program design and implementation topics. The two papers outline best practice program design recommendations drawing from GHGMI’s extensive institutional knowledge, including focused experience designing and deploying quality assurance, training, and complementary and synergistic elements of climate change programs.

Green Jobs Training: Promoting Accountability in Carbon Markets

Taking Quality Assurance Seriously in Carbon Markets

The second annual GHGMI-Sequence Staffing Greenhouse Gas/Climate Change Workforce Needs Assessment Survey will close this month. If you have not already completed a response we invite you to take part in this industry-defining needs assessment by filling out the online survey at www.greenhousegassurvey.com. Read More»

Institute Dean and Executive Director Michael Gillenwater will give a presentation on corporate emissions measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) at this year’s June 8-9th Carbon Finance North America conference in New York City. Read More»

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Published by Earthscan, in association with the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute, Greenhouse Gas Measurement & Management brings together information on the application of methods and techniques to estimate, measure, account and audit greenhouse gases, with experiences on their management and control. Read More»

Press Release: March 16, 2010 – Northeast Climate Policy Forum in New York City Read More»

From Environmental Finance

The recent suspension of a leading CDM verification company has highlighted the need to ‘professionalise’ the auditors of greenhouse gas emissions, say Tim Stumhofer and Michael Gillenwater. Read More»

Will carbon trading work?

December 14, 2009 11:41 p.m. EST – From CNN.com

(CNN) — Carbon trading — with its mix of free-market principles and government regulation — holds global appeal as a way for businesses to reduce emissions. But lack of a global market for carbon trade and questions over surveillance and accounting for pollution offsets raises questions about its viability.

The factors complicating accurate carbon-trading reportage begins with the “product” — in this case the absence of an invisible gas. Adding to the intangibility is the crediting of businesses for projected reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Read More»

From Reuters News on 19 November 2009, 16:19 PM 
By Michael Szabo

LONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters) – An injection of U.S. talent into the $6.5 billion market in carbon offsets would help clear bureaucratic bottlenecks, making way for increased investment in clean energy, the CEO of a $310 million environmental fund said. Read More»

From Nathanial Gronewold, E&E reporter

UNITED NATIONS — As some 15,000 people gather in Copenhagen for a high-profile effort to create a follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol agreement, some of the delegates will be absorbed in a more mundane, but important task. They must figure out how to reform of the Clean Development Mechanism, one of the protocol’s most visible and controversial parts. Read More»

25 November, 2009 – Carbon Finance

Six non-profits have concluded that the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) could provide sufficiently high-quality carbon offsets for a future US cap-and-trade programme, but have called for significant reforms. Read More»

Welcome to the New Website! You can probably tell that we received an upgrade to our website. We are very excited about our new layout and believe it will provide our readers a more constructive and conducive GHG work environment. Read More»