What is Greenhouse Gas Accounting? Allocation rules
Installment N.3 Preface If you have not yet read the previous installments Number 1 and Number 2 in this series, I encourage you to do so before proceeding. You can …
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Can states meet their climate goals without a reliable GHG inventory?
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report calls for net zero CO2 emissions by early 2050s to limit warming to 1.5oC. As a result, many U.S. states …
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Exploring life-cycle assessment resources: Help for your Scope 3 GHG accounting
The Revised Edition of the GHG Protocol was published[1] in 2004 (“Corporate Standard”) and it continues to be the foundation of corporate GHG accounting today. The Corporate Standard defines Scope 3 …
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What is Greenhouse Gas Accounting? Fitting to Purposes
Installment N.2 This post is the second installment in a series on conceptual issues in greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting—issues that are at the root of the current dysfunction in corporate …
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What is Greenhouse Gas Accounting? Furnishing definitions
Installment N.1 What is greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting, or more commonly labeled, carbon accounting? Do a quick web search (or treacherously ask ChatGPT) and you will get a load of …
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Can market-based climate policy deliver environmental justice outcomes?
A look “under-the-hood” in the U.S. State of Washington A long debate played out in Washington State in 2021 regarding a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cap-and-trade program similar to California’s. …
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The GHG Protocol Corporate Standard…The dog that caught the car?
If your work involves issues of corporate sustainability or carbon offset markets, then here is news that you should be aware of. The WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol Corporate Standard and associated …
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What are emission factors? And where can I find them?
If you’re a greenhouse gas (GHG) expert, you know emission factors (EFs) are an essential input to your work in carbon accounting. While performing emissions calculations you have surely experienced …
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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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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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