March 28, 2024

Final Summary of Corporate Standard Feedback Now Available  

Updated November 4, 2024: After consultation with our ecosystem partners, GHG Protocol released an updated version of this resource.  

February 9, 2024

We are excited to share the milestones we've hit over the last year. From launching two new overarching governance bodies, to administering four surveys, to adding 14 new staff members to our team, we have made significant progress towards updating our suite of corporate standards, expanded the ways stakeholders can be involved in our update process, and increased our team's capacity.

Greenhouse Gas Protocol is pleased to announce that Professor Dr. Alexander Bassen will serve as the inaugural Chair of its Independent Standards Board (ISB), the new governance body tasked with overseeing the update of GHG Protocol’s flagship suite of standards for business (including the Corporate Standard, Scope 2 Guidance, and Scope 3 Standard). 

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.  

GHG Protocol December Newsletter

Status Update

Corporate Standard Survey Draft Summary Report Now Available   

Between November 2022 and March 2023, GHG Pro

A group of organizations involved in different phases of the corporate decarbonization journey today published an animation and infographic to demonstrate how each of them play complementary roles in supporting ambitious climate action.

This governance restructuring is part of GHG Protocol’s overall strategy refresh. In May 2022, GHG Protocol initiated a strategy and organizational review process, including soliciting feedback from a diverse range of stakeholders. This feedback calls for a more formalized governance process and increased transparency and speed of standards development. 

Feedback now due December 31

Final Summary of Scope 2 Guidance Survey Feedback Now Available