Greenhouse gas emissions allowance trading scheme eu ets. A corporate accounting and reporting standard the ghg protocol or iso. This protocol is considered current best practice for corporate or organisational greenhouse gas emissions reporting. At the third conference of the parties cop 3 to the united nations framework convention on. Greenhouse gas protocol provides the worlds most widely used greenhouse gas accounting standards for companies. An accurate and useful inventory can only be developed after careful attention to quality control issues and to the activity data required. The greenhouse gas protocol corporate value chain scope 3 accounting and reporting standard 20 offers an internationally accepted method to enable ghg management of companies value chains. Ebrd protocol for assessment of greenhouse gas emissions. Photo from istock11814587 managing and mitigating greenhouse gases involves a constantly evolving process for inventorying, targeting, and reducing emissions. The parties included in annex i shall strive to implement policies and measures under. This star report is available at the following address.
Uncertainties associated with greenhouse gas inventories can be broadly categorized into scientific uncertainty and estimation uncertainty. The largest growth in greenhouse gas emissions has come from energy supply and road transport. This publication has been published by springer in 2014, isbn 9789400776715. The standard covers the accounting and reporting of seven greenhouse gases covered by the kyoto protocol carbon dioxide co2, methane ch4, nitrous oxide n2o, hydrofluorocarbons hfcs, perfluorocarbons.
The protocol provides requirements and methods for quantifying the net climate benefits of activities that sequester carbon on forestland. Greenhouse gas inventories and additional information. Principles of greenhouse gas accounting the ghg protocol is based on five principles. Aluminium carbon footprint technical support document. Wallington, jayaraman srinivasan, ole john nielsen, ellie j. However, the misnomer greenhouse effect has perpetuated, and there are a number of aspects of the effect which are poorly understood outside the atmospheric sciences. The greenhouse gas protocol world resources report. What impact is the bank having, through its investments, on the buildup of greenhouse gases in the. Accounting and reporting protocol for avoided greenhouse. Building on a 20 year partnership between world resources institute wri and the world business council for sustainable development wbcsd, ghg protocol. United nations framework convention on climate change.
Ghg protocol corporate accounting and reporting standard this document, which. The assessment also aimed to answer the simple question. Information on greenhouse gas emissions and trends, greenhouse gas. Environmental and ecological chemistry greenhouse gases and global warming timothy j. A corporate accounting and reporting standard, revised edition the protocol. New zealand greenhouse gas inventory 2019 ministry for the. Guidance on measuring and reporting greenhouse gas ghg.
Greenhouse gas management program overview greehouse gases trap heat in the lower atmosphere, warming the earths surface temperature. The centers ghg guidance is meant to extend upon the ghg protocol to align more closely with epaspecific ghg calculation methodologies and emission factors, and to support the centers ghg management tools and its climate leadership awards initiative. Protocol for the quantification of greenhouse gases emissions from. Guidelines for estimating greenhouse gas emissions of. Highwood line in figure 1 is the instrumental record which stretches back approximately 140 years, the blue line is the reconstructed temperature deduced from tree rings, ice. Ensure that adequate version control procedures for electronic files have. Scope and boundary definition cms applies the industry standard greenhouse gas protocol guidelines to this emissions. The lgo inventory followed additional guidance provided in the. The study report on the greenhouse gases and their impact on global warming. Emission trends for aggregated greenhouse gas emissions. Hendersonsellers the greenhouse effect is now commonly accepted by the scientific community, politicians and the general public. It is a way for the ghg protocol to recognize those sector guidance documents, product rules, and calculation tools that have been developed in conformance with. Framework convention on climate change and the kyoto protocol.
Protocol for quantifying greenhouse gas reductions from. Ozone depleting substances include a number of different compounds such as cfcs, hcfcs, and halons, all of which have global warming potentials. Emission factors for greenhouse gas inventories typically, greenhouse gas emissions are reported in units of carbon dioxide equivalent co 2e. Ghg protocol has become common language and practice today.
The ghg protocol corporate accounting and reporting standard provides requirements and guidance for companies and other organizations preparing a corporatelevel ghg emissions inventory. Greenhouse gas protocol allows and to some extent even encourages companies to use data of other areas, either smaller or bigger than a country. Greenhouse gases included the emissions sources addressed by this guidance document could result in emissions of any of the ghgs included in table 1. Ensure that adequate version control procedures for electronic files have been. Ebrd protocol for assessment of greenhouse gas emissions background the ebrd first published an assessment of the impact of its investments on greenhouse gas emissions in 2003. Indeed, governments and scientists began talking seriously about radical cuts to greenhouse gas emissions in 1988 the exact year that marked the dawning of what came to be called globalisation, with the signing of the agreement representing the worlds largest bilateral trade relationship between canada and the us, later to be. The greenhouse gas protocol framework figure 1 provides for specification on the six 6 major steps in the ghg accounting and reporting process, beginning with a setting your entitys boundary to b identifying emissions sources within the boundary, d to. Two additional documents are joined to the protocol.
Estimating baseline emissionsprojectspecific procedure. This table is adapted from the ipcc fifth assessment report, 2014 ar5i. Driving a greenhouse gas offset protocol 5 developer needs offsets fuel treatment project a fuel treatments more expensive to conduct than value of wood products. Corporate reporting of greenhouse gas emissions is steadily increasing.
Relationship of the guidance to other greenhouse gas reporting requirements and. Epa center for corporate climate leaderships the center ghg guidance is based on the greenhouse gas protocol. Gases are converted to co 2e by multiplying by their global warming potential gwp. Mtpscs appendix e7 greenhouse gas regional inventory protocol. Our climate progress updated january 2020 methodology the ge greenhouse gas ghg inventory follows the world resources institute world business council for sustainable development wriwbcsd greenhouse gas protocol. The standard covers the accounting and reporting of seven greenhouse gases covered by the kyoto protocol carbon dioxide co2, methane ch4, nitrous oxide. All of the guidance in this document aligns with this approach, and with the wri principles of reporting, listed.
The protocol consists of a manual in pdf format and a calculation tool in. Global protocol for communityscale greenhouse gas emission inventoriesgpc. Accounting and reporting protocol for avoided greenhouse gas emissions along the value chain of cementbased products version 1. A corporate accounting and reporting standard ghg protocol developed by the world resources institute wri and the world business council for sustainable development wbcsd. Guide to greenhouse gas management for small business. Protocol for quantifying greenhouse gas reductions from anaerobic manure digesters introduction the purpose of this protocol is to address the measurement and verification of methane emissions reductions from the combustion of biogas for the chicago. Federal greenhouse gas accounting and reporting guidance. Learn about key greenhouse gases and their sources, as well greenhouse gas emissions at the global, national, facility,and household level. The greenhouse gas protocol is a common approach to emissions reporting set out by independent bodies, the world resources institute wri and the world business council for sustainable development wbcsd. The centers ghg guidance is meant to extend upon the ghg protocol to align more closely with epaspecific ghg calculation. The purpose was to see climate change impacts in the wider context of the transition impacts of ebrd projects. International aluminium institute the aluminium sector addendum to the wbcsdwri greenhouse gas protocol introduction this document, the international aluminium institute iai aluminium sector addendum to the wbcsdwri greenhouse gas protocol, maintains, as an underlying premise, that the international aluminium industry generally accepts and endorses the greenhouse gas. This protocol is a tool for quantifying and reporting a greenhouse gas inventory. It allows user to address the emissions outside of ones organisational walls from the goods it purchases to the disposal of the products it sells.
A series of tools for calculating ghg emissions inventories based on 2006 ipcc guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories. Background on the kyoto protocol and flexible mechanisms the possibility of global climate change resulting from an increase in greenhouse gas ghg concentrations in the atmosphere is a major global concern. When in doubt about applying the tools explained in this guide to. World resources institute world business council for sustainable development wriwbcsd summary text. For the marketbased number, the guarantee of origin is the carrier of greenhouse gas emissions. Ghg emissions have been reported by the three wbcsdwri scopes. Guidance for voluntary greenhouse gas reporting ministry for the. The ghg protocol uncertainty tool is designed to aggregate statistical i. Greenhouse gas benefits of fuels treatments 4 wood products concrete, steel biochar fertilizer, water avoided fossil fuel energy renewable energy electricity. United nations framework convention on climate change over the last three decades, all greenhouse gas emissions increased by an average of 1. Our tools enable companies to develop comprehensive and reliable inventories of their ghg emissions. Background study into greenhouse gas emissions from the. United nations framework convention on climate change the parties to this convention, acknowledging that change in the earths climate and its adverse effects are a common concern of humankind, concerned that human activities have been substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.
The protocol provides offset project eligibility rules. Epa center for corporate climate leaderships the center greenhouse gas guidance is based on the greenhouse gas protocol. All values are calculated from tables a104 through a110. The greenhouse gas intensity metrics are the sum of our scope 1 and locationbased scope 2 emissions in metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent divided by revenue in million u. Greenhouse gas protocol mitigation goals accounting and. The framework of the greenhouse gas protocol classi. The following list shall replace the list under the heading greenhouse gases in annex a to the protocol. Ghg protocol for project accounting greenhouse gas protocol. An official website of the united states government.
Intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc, fourth assessment. Global warming potential values the following table includes the 100year time horizon global warming potentials gwp relative to co2. The data was compiled in accordance with the greenhouse gas protocol. Global warming potential values greenhouse gas protocol. Both inventories are aligned with the requirements of the international of mayorscompact, which somerville joined in september 2015. The purchase of renewable energy can be accounted for as 0 emissions. The emission factors listed in this document source. The centers ghg guidance is meant to expand upon the ghg protocol to align more closely with epaspecific ghg calculation methodologies and emission factors, and to support the centers ghg management tools and its climate leadership awards initiative. Without the greenhouse effect the earths average global temperature would be much colder and life on earth as we know. Greenhouse gas protocol provides standards and tools that help countries and cities track progress toward climate goals. The ar5 values are the most recent, but the second assessment report 1995 and fourth. Guidelines for estimating greenhouse gas emissions of asian development bank projects. Regional greenhouse gas initiative offset protocol u.
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