Podcast #5: U.S. EPA Clean Power Plan

March 10, 2015, by Don Bain

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a new rule, the Clean Power Plan, to regulate greenhouse gases from the production of electricity. We discuss some features of the proposed …

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Podcast #4: Back to School

March 10, 2015, by Don Bain

We informally muse on the state of environmental curriculum in universities after Don returns from visiting 5 colleges in the United States. Visits included conversations with professors and students about: …

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Podcast #3: GHG and Sustainability Reporting Standard Initiatives

March 10, 2015, by Don Bain

We talk about the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) workshop Don recently attended. Modelled after the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), SASB is attempting to develop environmental reporting standards. The …

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Podcast #2: Supply Chain and Value Chain GHG Management

March 10, 2015, by Don Bain

We discuss the merits of using a corporate value chain framework for managing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Michael asks tough questions while Don brings answers from his experience as …

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Podcast #1: REC or Wreck? Making GHG accounting sense of green power claims, offsets and renewable energy certificates.

March 10, 2015, by Don Bain

We discuss the relationship between green power claims and carbon accounting. We try to reduce confusion about offsets and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), or Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGOs). …

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Efficiency targets fall short of achieving a low-carbon future in China

January 31, 2015, by Carbon Management Journal

“Current efficiency targets are based on a production-based logic leading to outsourcing and higher costs. Allocating emissions to the point of consumption may better reflect the ability to pay the …

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Have you fallen for the green power accounting shell game?

January 26, 2015, by Michael Gillenwater

If you are reading this blog, then you probably spend part of your time working on the issue of climate change. Don’t you sometimes just get tired? Tired of the …

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Scope 2 Corporate Accounting, Enron and Arthur Andersen – A Cautionary Tale

January 25, 2015, by Don Bain

Renewable Energy Certificates, RECs, in the voluntary green power market are not additional. They do not result in emissions reductions, as reported in rigorous, peer-reviewed research.1

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Tom Baumann – Committed to Standardization

December 11, 2014, by Molly White

GHGMI Co-Founder and Director of Knowledge Management and International Chair of ISO Climate Change Standards (TC207/SC7), Tom Baumann, is featured in the current issue of the ISO Focus Magazine entitled, …

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Reflections on MRV in an Era of Climate Policy Sluggishness

November 25, 2014, by Michael Gillenwater
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