Greenhouse Gas Measurement & Management (GHGMM) is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal that aims to provide reliable and up-to-date research and information on a broad range of issues relating to greenhouse gases (GHGs) to the growing community of professionals dealing with climate change.

As the old saying goes “you cannot manage what you do not measure.” GHGMM covers the application of science, engineering, and economic principles to improve the way society mitigates the anthropogenic causes of global climate change. This includes developing and providing reliable performance metrics related to GHG emissions and removals and managing activities that reduce GHG emissions to and/or increase their removals from the atmosphere.

GHGMM is relevant to a variety of emission and removal accounting frameworks (i.e., system boundaries), each of which define the metrics that support particular mitigation policies and activities, such as those resulting from international treaties, domestic regulations, industrial efforts, or consumer actions. These GHG accounting frameworks (levels) include:

• global
• national
• sectoral, program, and policy
• technology, product, life cycle, and supply-chain
• entity (e.g., corporate emissions inventory)
• facility (i.e., installation)
• project (e.g., offsets)

To mitigate GHGs, it is essential to ensure the availability of reliable data regarding their emissions and removals, which is achieved through the design and application of regulatory and compliance-relevant Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems. These systems and rules for GHG emission and removal metrics must take into account the context of policy developments and industry practices. Specifically, the measurement of GHGs includes the following issues:

• Metering and sensors – collecting primary data of direct GHG emissions and relevant proxy data with which emissions or removals can be monitored and estimated;
• GHG protocols, standards, methodologies, emission inventories, accounting and metrics – designing, applying, and understanding the limitations of different approaches used for measuring, estimating, reporting and verifying GHG emissions and removals (including issues such as boundaries, additionality, baselines, leakage, and permanence); and using different technologies for various accounting frameworks and sectors (e.g., fuel combustion, agriculture, forestry, waste management, etc.);
• Uncertainty – understanding and managing uncertainty in the measurement and estimation of GHG emissions, removals and storage;
• Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) – establishing and enhancing QA/QC and auditing processes, including validation of approaches and verification of GHG emissions, removals and storage;
• Information and communication technologies (ICTs) – developing and using software and other tools for the measurement and estimation of GHG emissions, removals and storage.

Managing GHG emissions involves: the use of performance metrics, systems engineering, and economic analyses to identify mitigation activities, as well as planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling the implementation of these activities. Specifically, the management of GHGs includes the following issues:

• Mitigation analysis – understanding, identifying, assessing and selecting appropriate policies (including economic and market-based instruments), measures, technologies and business strategies that aim to mitigate GHGs;
• Mitigation implementation – understanding the behavioral and technological options for reducing emissions and enhancing removals in a given context and managing the implementation of selected mitigation activities;
• Performance management – accounting for, and measuring, the effectiveness of implemented mitigation activities and technologies at all levels and using metrics to improve performance;
• Emissions analysis – predicting and modeling the effects of specific mitigation activities, products or technologies on GHG emissions and removals;
• Information and communication technologies (ICTs) – developing and using software and other tools for the management of GHGs;
• Adaptation and pollutant emissions – identifying synergies and co-benefits between activities that reduce GHGs, adaptation to the impacts of climate change, and emissions of other pollutants;
• Social issues – understanding the social, economic, and political factors, risks, opportunities, and governance issues relating to the management of GHGs (e.g., corporate disclosure, community right to know).

GHGMM will be open to different types of articles, including:

• Original research papers (for example, on topics relating to: theoretical and practical developments on GHGs, concepts and methods, empirical analysis, policy assessments)
• Short communications/Case studies
• Invited reviews
• Opinion pieces/Commentaries
• Book reviews
• Meeting reports