Research

The Greenhouse Gas Management Institute’s Research Program conducts forward-looking independent research. Pairing the unique expert experience of its staff and faculty with the dynamism of its extensive practitioner network, the Institute’s Research Program provides insight into foundational areas of climate policy and the practice of GHG management.

This program provides policymakers, industry leaders, and academics with forward-looking inquiry and analysis of GHG measurement, reporting, verification (MRV), and management challenges and solutions.

The Institute is unique in the field of GHG measurement and management, arguably ahead of its time in terms of the problems it is addressing. However, it was founded to address this paucity of thought leadership and our Research Program is characterized by the commitment to investigating, confronting, and pushing these issues from the dark corners of academia and technocracy to the mainstream.

The Carbon Management Journal

Carbon Management journal is a scholarly peer-reviewed forum for insights from the diverse array of disciplines that enhance our understanding of carbon dioxide and other GHG interactions – from biology, ecology, chemistry, and engineering to law, policy, economics, and sociology. The journal has a core aim to examine the options and mechanisms for mitigating the causes and impacts of climate change, which includes mechanisms for reducing emissions and enhancing the removal of GHGs from the atmosphere, as well as metrics used to measure the performance of options and mechanisms resulting from international treaties, domestic policies, local regulations, environmental markets, technologies, industrial efforts, and consumer choices.

This unique resource is designed to keep you up-to-date on research in the field. The journal is published quarterly by Taylor & Francis in partnership with the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute.

To view full details on Carbon Management, including a listing of all volumes and issues, editorial board, aims and scope, and submission guidelines, click here.

A novel approach for mapping methane mitigation potential in rice production

Carbon Management Journal

Climate-based suitability assessment for alternate wetting and drying water management in the Philippines: a novel approach for mapping methane mitigation potential in rice production “The ‘alternate wetting and drying’ (AWD) technology for rice is a water-saving ... Read more

Carbon emissions from land cover change in Central Vietnam

Carbon Management Journal

“The carbon emissions and removals due to land cover changes between 2001 and 2010 in the Vu Gia Thu Bon River Basin, Central Vietnam, were estimated using Landsat satellite images ... Read more

Carbon Management Journal Now Open Access

Carbon Management Journal

3.182* 2020 Impact Factor | 3.5 CiteScore We are proud that Carbon Management is now open access, thereby lowering access barriers to the free sharing of research on greenhouse gases; climate ... Read more

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Peer-Reviewed Staff Publications

National GHG inventory capacity in developing countries – a global assessment of progress (2023)
Lessons learned for future transparency capacity building under the Paris Agreement: A review of greenhouse gas inventory capacity building projects in Viet Nam and Cambodia (2020)
Creative accounting: A critical perspective on the market-based method for reporting purchased electricity (scope 2) emissions (2017)
Greenhouse gas emissions inventory capacity: An assessment of Asian developing countries (2017)
Lessons learned in mandatory carbon market development (2017)
LiDAR-Assisted Multi-Source Program (LAMP) for Measuring Above Ground Biomass and Forest Carbon (2017)
The Clean Development Mechanism: A Review of the First International Offset Program (2011)
GHG schemes addressing climate change: How ISO standards help (2010)

Institute Reports and Discussion Papers

Frequently Asked Questions: Green Power Purchasing Claims and Greenhouse Gas Accounting (2022)
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) (2021)
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting for Electric Companies: A Compendium of Technical Briefing Papers and Frequently Asked Questions (2021)
Attributional-consequential distinction | The most important GHG accounting concept most have not heard of (2021)
Global Database of National GHG Inventory Capacity in Developing Countries (2020)
ICAT (Initiative for Climate Action Transparency) Forest Methodology: Assessing the Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Forest Policies (2020)
ICAT (Initiative for Climate Action Transparency) Agriculture Methodology: Assessing the Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Agriculture Policies (2018)
Challenges and Proposed Reforms to the UNFCCC Expert Review Process for the Enhanced Transparency Framework (2019)
Methods to Account for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Embedded in Wholesale Power Purchases (2019)
Response to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Consultation on Draft Scope 2 Guidance (2015)
What is Additionality? (2012) (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
Taking Quality Assurance Seriously in Carbon Markets (2010)
Green Jobs Training: Promoting Accountability in Carbon Markets (2010)
The Offset Quality Initiative (2008) (6/2009) (11/2009)

Professional Initiatives

GHGMI Surveys, Reports and UNFCCC Submissions

UNFCCC APA non-party submission: Views on issues under agenda item 5: Modalities, procedures and guidelines for the transparency framework for action and support referred to in Article 13 of the Paris Agreement (2017)
UNFCCC APA non-party submission: Guidance on: (a) features of nationally determined contributions, as specified in paragraph 26; (b) information to facilitate clarity, transparency and understanding of nationally determined contributions, as specified in paragraph 28; and (c) accounting for Parties’ nationally determined contributions, as specified in paragraph 31 (2017)
Greenhouse Gas and Climate Change Workforce Needs Assessment Surveys (2009) (2010)
GHGMI Greenhouse Gas Inventory Reports (2009) (2019)

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