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GHG Protocol is currently in the process of updating its corporate suite of standards and guidance, including its Scope 2 Guidance (2015). In the decade since the Scope 2 Guidance was published, there have been significant changes within the GHG emissions accounting and reporting ecosystem, including the development of both voluntary and mandatory disclosure frameworks and the increase in adoption of net-zero emissions targets.
Over the last year, Greenhouse Gas Protocol has reached a number of major milestones.
GHG Protocol Newsletter: October 2024
November 4, 2024
As announced in November of 2023, GHG Protocol is refining its governance model to meet the needs of a rapidly changing GHG accounting an
Updated November 4, 2024: After consultation with our ecosystem partners, GHG Protocol released an updated version of this resource.
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The origin of greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting dates to the late 1990s, but interest has grown exponentially in the past few years with the proliferation of both voluntary and more recently, mandatory corporate climate disclosure initiatives.
In 1998, WRI and WBCSD formed a partnership to develop the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard, published in 2001 and revised in 2004, and the GHG Protocol for Project Accounting (Project Protocol), published in 2005. These standards provide two methods to account for emissions, respectively: entity-level GHG inventory accounting, which describes how to quantify and allocate an organization’s share of emissions to the atmosphere, and project-based GHG accounting, which describes how to evaluate emissions effects of a project relative to a counterfactual baseline scenario without the project.