Measuring Capacity Progress in Climate Transparency, A Framework to Inform Future Work

June 9, 2023, by Molly White

The Global Stocktake (GST), occurring for the first time this year, will assess the global response to climate change. It will be a chance to evaluate the current level of …

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Exploring life-cycle assessment resources: Help for your Scope 3 GHG accounting

May 10, 2023, by Roel Hammerschlag

The Revised Edition of the GHG Protocol was published[1] in 2004 (“Corporate Standard”) and it continues to be the foundation of corporate GHG accounting today. The Corporate Standard defines Scope 3 …

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ICAT’s transparency hub in Central Asia builds capacity on greenhouse gas inventories

May 3, 2023, by Olga Lyandres

Article published on climateactiontransparency.org and reposted with formatting changes. “A workshop on greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories was held from 27 February to 3 March 2023, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and brought …

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OffsetGuide.org Guidance Translated to Chinese

May 1, 2023, by Tani Colbert-Sangree

The PDF guidance document provided by Offsetguide.org is now available for download in Chinese. GHGMI and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) authored OffsetGuide.org in 2019 as a publicly available resource …

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Climate Leadership Conference

April 27, 2023, by Alissa Benchimol

2023 Climate Leadership Conference Los Angeles, CA | May 10-12, 2023 The annual Climate Leadership Conference is North America’s premier event dedicated to addressing the climate crisis through policy, innovation, …

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What is Greenhouse Gas Accounting? Fitting to Purposes

March 8, 2023, by Michael Gillenwater

Installment N.2 This post is the second installment in a series on conceptual issues in greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting—issues that are at the root of the current dysfunction in corporate …

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Public Comments on the FTC Green Guides

March 3, 2023, by Tani Colbert-Sangree

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) developed the Green Guides for the Use of Environmental Claims in 1992. In 2010 the Guides were revised to include claims relating to carbon offsets …

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What is Greenhouse Gas Accounting? Furnishing definitions

March 1, 2023, by Michael Gillenwater

Installment N.1 What is greenhouse gas (GHG), or more commonly labeled, carbon accounting? Do a quick web search (or treacherously ask ChatGPT) and you will get a load of vague …

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Public Comments on the SEC Climate Disclosure Proposed Rule

March 3, 2023, by Tani Colbert-Sangree

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is proposing rule changes regarding the reporting of climate-related risk to include GHG emissions throughout a company’s value chain. The proposed rule would: “[R]equire …

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Can market-based climate policy deliver environmental justice outcomes?

February 23, 2023, by Tani Colbert-Sangree

A look “under-the-hood” in the U.S. State of Washington A long debate played out in Washington State in 2021 regarding a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cap-and-trade program similar to California’s. …

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