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Is impact out of scope? A call for innovation in climate standards

November 1, 2024, by Carbon Management Journal

“Today’s global net-zero governance landscape fails to recognize some of the most important strategic actions companies can take to mitigate climate change. Standards have been built primarily to guide companies …

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GHGMI at COP29

October 29, 2024, by Events

  The Greenhouse Gas Management Institute (GHGMI) faculty and staff will participate in the following events at the UNFCCC COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The events listed below will be updated …

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Is Scope 3 fit for purpose? Alternative GHG accounting frameworks for inventories and intervention impacts

October 28, 2024, by Derik Broekhoff & Michael Gillenwater

Preface This post continues a series (“what is greenhouse gas accounting?”) exploring conceptual issues in corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting. If you have not read the series, all installments are …

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Which methane GWP value do I use? And which value should not be used?

October 17, 2024, by Michael Gillenwater & Alissa Benchimol

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the primary greenhouse gas (GHG) causing long-term atmospheric emissions and climate change and therefore is a primary target for mitigation action. Methane (CH4) and other non-CO2 …

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GHG Protocol Announces Members of Technical Working Groups

September 27, 2024, by Michael Gillenwater

GHG Protocol has announced the members of the Technical Working Groups that will aid in revising and updating the corporate standards suite. This announcement comes on the heels of a …

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Submit a Manuscript to the Carbon Management Journal

September 10, 2024, by Michael Gillenwater

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 …

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Alternative Approaches to Corporate GHG Accounting

September 6, 2024, by Carbon Management Journal

The rise of the salience of corporate climate disclosures, specifically reporting on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions performance, has highlighted the limitations of current corporate GHG reporting protocols and spawned proposals …

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An Open Discussion on GHG Accounting

September 5, 2024, by Erika Barnett

GHGMI hosted a panel discussion, facilitated by Dr. Michael Gillenwater, surrounding the advanced issues in and complexities of GHG accounting. The event on Wednesday, September 11 at 8:00 – 10:00 …

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Demystifying carbon removals in the context of offsetting for sub-global net-zero targets

September 2, 2024, by Carbon Management Journal

“The net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions concept is emerging as a fundamental principle for initiatives to address climate change ranging from global to corporate scale. Offsetting emissions using carbon credits …

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Do we need a paradigm shift on offsetting? Compensation to contributions

July 13, 2024, by Michael Gillenwater

The problem of compensatory net zero At the moment, “net zero” is about as popular a fad as we have ever seen in the climate space.[1] Before that there was …

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