You are not buying green, or really any, electrons!
Note: This is an updated version of a post originally published in 2013. How do you envision our electric grid works? It is probably that electricity, in the form of …
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Companies’ Climate Goals in Jeopardy from Flawed Energy Credits
Article published on Bloomberg.com and reposted with no changes. By Eric Roston and Ben Elgin June 9, 2022, 4:00 PM GMT+1 Updated on June 9, 2022, 4:50 PM GMT+1 “A new study charges …
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Journal Announces New Editorial Board Members
We are proud to announce new editorial board members for Carbon Management, the peer-reviewed academic journal sponsored by the GHG Management Institute. The members of the journal’s editorial board represent …
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What is a baseline?
Since publishing this article, GHGMI now recommends the use of the term avoided emissions instead of emission reductions for intervention/consequential/project GHG accounting due to the confusion of the latter term …
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The overlooked mystery of the missing GHG accounting principle
When performing greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting work, such as preparing an emissions inventory or assessing an emission reduction project, you will, at some point, need to apply expert judgment. You …
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What is an MRV Hub? Innovation in Capacity Building for Climate Action Transparency
The GHG Management Institute (GHGMI) was founded fifteen years ago upon reaching a sad conclusion. That the existing approaches to capacity building being employed to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions …
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Join the Online Community of GHG Management Professionals
I find that if you understand the origins of something, you learn a great deal about how and why it does what it does. That is especially true for organizations. …
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What has this pandemic done to your organization?
The last year has imposed on communities everywhere a forced and rushed experiment in working under quarantine conditions and conducting online learning at scale. Like you, those of us at …
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Should I use the new IPCC GHG Inventory Guidelines?
Yes, you should use the new IPCC guidelines, with an awkward caveat. Technically speaking, there is every reason anyone engaged in estimating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or removals—from corporate, to …
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Black lives matter
These facts, we at the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute (GHGMI), affirm: Black lives matter. Climate change is a problem that demands global collective action; systemic racism and racial bias are …
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