Submit a Manuscript to the Carbon Management Journal

Submit a manuscript to the Carbon Management journal for an Article Collection on The GHG Protocol Revision Process.

The GHG Protocol is currently undertaking a process for updating its suite of corporate standards and guidance. This is, therefore, a key moment and opportunity for informing that process through the provision of high-quality academic research and independent analysis.

The GHG Protocol’s suite of standards include the Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, the Scope 3 Calculation Guidance, the Scope 2 Guidance, the Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard, the Policy and Action Standard, and the Protocol for Project Accounting, in addition to others.

The focus of this Article Collection is to attract quality papers that address any issues pertinent to the update of the GHG Protocol standards, including recommendations for new standards and guidance.

Original research, case studies, or perspective articles are welcomed for submission. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Consequential GHG accounting (i.e., intervention or impact accounting)
• Avoided emissions
• Use of and accounting for carbon credits
• Climate-related risk and opportunity
• The purpose and limitations of corporate GHG inventories
• Treatment of interventions taken inside versus outside a company’s “value chain”
• Use of mass value and book-and-claim approaches to inventory accounting
• Performance accounting
• Scope 2
• Scope 3
• Market-based accounting
• Advised emissions
• Accounting for biogenic emissions
• Removals accounting and the application of “net zero” standards to corporate accounting and goal setting.
• Accounting for the duration of carbon storage
• E-liability accounting
• Transition plans
• Additionality
• The role of life cycle assessment/product in scope 3 accounting
• Portfolio carbon footprinting
• The use of labels for climate-related targets and claims (e.g. “carbon neutrality”, “impact neutrality” and “net zero”)
• The choice of metric for establishing equivalence between GHGs (GWP100 and its alternatives)
• Industry-specific accounting issues

All manuscripts submitted to this Article Collection will undergo a full peer-review. Please review the journal scope and author submission instructions prior to submitting a manuscript. Please be sure to select the appropriate Article Collection title from the drop-down menu in the submission system.

The deadline for submitting manuscripts is September 30th, 2024.

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