Podcast #4: Back to School

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: …

Podcast #3: GHG and Sustainability Reporting Standard Initiatives

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 …

Podcast #2: Supply Chain and Value Chain GHG Management

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 …

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

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). …

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

“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 …

Have you fallen for the green power accounting shell game?

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 …

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

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

Tom Baumann – Committed to Standardization

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, …

Reflections on MRV in an Era of Climate Policy Sluggishness

Public Consultation and Webinar: Updated reporting framework for environmental information