Suite of Corporate Standards and Guidance: Quarter 1 2025 Technical Working Groups Update

GHG Protocol currently has five Technical Working Groups in process. Below is a high-level update about what each workstream has been working on between January and March 2025. You can view the materials from Technical Working Group meetings in GHG Protocol’s Standards Development and Governance Repository.    

• Corporate Standard Technical Working Group discussed topics including comparability of GHG information (Subgroup 1), optionality in consolidation approaches (Subgroup 2), and details of a scope 3 reporting requirement in the Corporate Standard (Subgroup 3).
• Scope 2 Technical Working Group is in the process of advancing revisions to both the location-based and market-based methods. A newly formed subgroup is developing recommendations for the AMI TWG on the consequential quantification and reporting of GHG emission impacts from an organization's electricity sector actions.
• Scope 3 Technical Working Group has 3 subgroups whose discussions were focused on potential disaggregated reporting of scope 3 inventory, considerations of hot spot analysis and facilitated emissions, as well as classification of emissions in category 15 and their minimum boundaries.
• Actions and Market Instruments Technical Working Group is currently considering and refining proposals for a more comprehensive Corporate Accounting and Reporting Framework including the necessary approaches for addressing the impacts of actions and market instruments.
• Forest Carbon Accounting Technical Working Group is in the process of refining quantification proposals to account for and report anthropogenic CO2 emissions and removals in forest operations and forest product value chains.  

Welcoming New Steering Committee Member Ann Tracy

We are pleased to announce Ann Tracy as an additional member of GHG Protocol’s Steering Committee.  Ann Tracy serves as Chief Sustainability Officer for Colgate-Palmolive. You can find her full biography, as well as information about GHG Protocol’s governance structure on our governance webpage.

Scope 3 Frequently Asked Questions: Installment #2

Eleven new answers to frequently asked questions have been added to our Scope 3 FAQ resource. Check out the resource to read the answers and learn where to find more information in the standard and guidance. More answers to Scope 3 frequently asked questions will be announced in future newsletters and on social media.

New Scope 2 Video: Renting Office Space

In a new video, Chelsea Gillis, Scope 2 Senior Associate at GHG Protocol, gives an overview of the methods companies can use to account for emissions from rented office space. Watch the new video here. For more answers to frequently asked questions about the scope 2, check out our Scope 2 FAQ resource.

Independent Standards Board Interview Series: Q&A with Chair Alexander Bassen

GHG Protocol Communications Specialist Ashley Jones sat down with Alexander Bassen, the Chair of Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Independent Standards Board to learn more about him, his career and his advice for those pursuing a career in GHG Accounting. Read the Q&A here.

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