Getting REDDy for REDD?
This Friday all eyes in the climate world will return to Bonn, Germany for the next rounds of the UNFCCC-convened Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I …
Read MoreThe SEC climate risk guidance: An inflection point for reporting and institutional capacity building?
The U.S. SEC’s decision at the end of January to release interpretative guidance on corporate climate risk disclosure unleashed an impressively diverse maelstrom of articles, briefs, and alerts. Simultaneously, legal, …
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 …
Read MoreA time for reflection
As we close out this year, now is a good time for some refection before we charge into a new calendar. At the Institute, we have done just that, by …
Read MoreCOP15 Postmortem: Part I the UNFCCC process
It has taken this observer a few days (critically complemented by well overdue restful nights) to fairly assess the results of the Copenhagen fortnight. This delayed consideration is in part …
Read MoreStanding room only at the Institute’s Copenhagen side event
On Saturday evening the Institute had the distinct pleasure to co-host an official COP15 side event with the Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSE) and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).
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