Job Opportunity: Climate Taxonomy Specialist (Manager), WBCSD
WBCSD is hiring for a Climate Taxonomy Specialist (Manager) to join their Climate & Energy Team.
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Update on Greenhouse Gas Protocol Carbon Removals and Land Sector Initiative
WRI and WBCSD launched the GHG Protocol Carbon Removals and Land Sector Initiative in January 2020 to develop new GHG Protocol standards and guidance for corporate-level GHG inventories: Carbon Removals Standard, Land Sector Guidance, and Bioenergy Guidance. The new guidance will build on the Corporate Standard and Scope 3 Standard to explain how companies should account for these activities in GHG inventories.
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Webinar: Greenhouse Gas Protocol and Science-based Targets for Forest, Land and Agriculture (FLAG) | Mar. 3
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New ICAT Policy Assessment Guides for Countries
The recently launched Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) policy assessment guides, built in part upon the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Policy and Action Standard, offer a set of methodologies to help countries assess the impacts of policies and actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, achieve sustainable development outcomes and drive transformational change.
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New Greenhouse Gas Protocol Land Sector and Removals Guidance
The GHG Protocol is developing new guidance on how companies and organizations should account for greenhouse gas emissions and carbon removals from land use, land use change, bioenergy, and related topics.
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Join World Resources Institute at the Climate Leadership Conference, March 20-22 in Baltimore
Join us March 20-22 in Baltimore to connect with the nation’s thought leaders and decision-makers at the 8th annual Climate Leadership Conference. WRI is co-hosting Scaling Collective Action: Best Practices for Setting and Achieving SBTs in the Value Chain workshop on Wednesday, March 20th from 9:00 – 10:30 am.
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Request for Proposals: NDC Implementation Tracking Tool
World Resources Institute (WRI) seeks qualified assistance to develop a user-friendly tool to track implementation and effects of climate actions. Interested vendors should be prepared to submit a full proposal by January 25th, 2019, with aim to deliver the full tool by June 2019.
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Announcement: Facilitated Course for Policymakers and Practitioners Now Available
Designed for policymakers and practitioners developing economy-wide or sector-specific GHG reporting programs, the course Designing MRV Systems for Entity-Level Greenhouse Gas Emissions is now accepting enrolees for a facilitated online course, to take place Nov. 13 - Dec. 4, 2017.
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WRI to lead workshop on "Best Practices for Setting and Achieving Science-Based Targets" at Climate Leadership Conference, March 1 in Chicago
Join us March 1-3 in Chicago to connect with the nation’s leaders on climate at the sixth annual Climate Leadership Conference (CLC). The CLC convenes around U.S. EPA’s prestigious Climate Leadership Awards, and brings climate, energy and sustainability professionals together to address climate change through policy, innovation and business solutions.
WRI will host a workshop "Best Practices for Setting and Achieving Science-Based Targets" on Wednesday, March 1st, 2017 from 10:00am – 12:30pm.
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Public Comment Begins for the GPC draft 2.0
After a successful nine-month pilot test from May 2013 to January 2014, the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC) has been revised and is now available for public comment until August 18th. The authors particularly welcome review by city officials, practitioners, and technical experts in the fields of energy, transportation, waste management, agriculture and forestry. As a global reporting standard, the GPC enables cities and communities to consistently measure and report GHG emissions and develop climate action plans and low-emission urban development strategies.
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