Who is building our global GHG MRV infrastructure?
Sometimes it feels quite lonely here at GHG Management Institute headquarters. Toiling away trying to do what we think is needed to support the future of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation …
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What is a Global Warming Potential? And which one do I use?
[Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally published on 28 June 2010. The post, in its current form, has been updated as of 8 May 2023 to reflect the final …
Read MoreWhat are Greenhouse Gases?
[Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally published on June 15th, 2010. The post in its current form, has since been edited to include updated content as of April 1st, …
Read MoreWhat is a voluntary carbon market (Part 2)?
I promised in a recent blog post to return to the question of what is a voluntary carbon market. Specifically, I laid out a framework for thinking about voluntary carbon …
Read MoreWhy is climate change so difficult a problem?
Acceptance of the fundamental process of global warming has grown over time and is increasingly widespread, albeit with some notable exceptions within the political community. The most important statement of …
Read MoreWhat is a voluntary carbon market (Part 1)?
This blog post is going to be slightly more academic than my past ones. Comments or questions are welcome. Before jumping into what makes a voluntary carbon market, lets define …
Read MoreWhere is the GHG Management Institute located?
We get this question quite often. Where is our office? Our headquarters’ address is in the Washington, D.C. area. Specifically, we are incorporated in the State of Maryland as a …
Read MoreThe Treaty Compliance Challenge: Enforcement under the Kyoto Protocol
Now that we have the Copenhagen Accord, which gives us some hope that eventually we will have a treaty that includes the United States and active engagement from developing countries, …
Read MoreHow we do international capacity building
In the climate change policy world there is plenty of talk about capacity building, especially for developing countries — though occasionally for developed countries as well. Less frequently, however, is …
Read MoreWhy e-learning?
Here at the Institute, we are consistently amazed at the number of people who blindly assume we deliver training in a standard classroom setting. Indeed one of the most common …
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