Outreach activities

 Developing Country Programs - Updates Brazil The Brazil GHG Protocol Program has held two training workshops for its 27 founding members at...
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Tool updates

General tool revisions WRI initiated changes to its suite of mobile combustion tools. These changes are ultimately aimed at increasing usability...
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WRI and Sun talk energy and sustainable business at 2008 Net Impact Conference

WRI participated in the annual 2008 Net Impact Conference, held at the Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia on November 15th. GHG Protocol joined a panel for the three-hour OpenEco Energy Camp Saturday morning session, sponsored by Sun Microsystems. The session centered around Sun’s global online-community OpenEco.org, that provides free tools to help participants measure, track, and compare energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) performance.
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New staff profile - Cynthia Cummis

Cynthia Cummis joins WRI and the GHG Protocol team as Senior Associate, managing the new Product and Supply Chain Initiative. Cynthia comes from Clear Carbon Consulting where she was Director of Carbon Management, managing carbon quantification and corporate projects for multiple Fortune 500 clients. She brings more than 12 years of experience working on the issue of global climate change.
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WRI launches its new Corporate Consultative Group

On September 16th and 17th, WRI launched its new Corporate Consultative Group (CCG) in Washington, D.C. This group provides member companies with regular exposure to WRI expertise and several opportunities to exchange valuable thinking about shared environmental challenges.
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GHG Protocol's Product and Supply Chain Initiative launches in Washington, DC and London

A new collaboration launches to develop guidelines for measuring and managing corporate GHG emissions throughout the product life cycle and across the entire value chain. The project’s Steering Committee and technical working groups launched in September, in a series of meetings in Washington and London, involving over 100 participants. The meetings signal the kickoff of a two-year process that ultimately will produce two new GHG Protocol publications that are expected to become international standards-product life cycle accounting standards and corporate value chain accounting guidelines.
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GHG Protocol releases India GHG Program Guide

The month of October saw the CD-release of the final version of the India program guide by the Indian Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, Mr Shyam Saran. In his remarks, Mr Saran emphasized the importance of businesses taking the initiative to deal with climate change and encouraged public-private partnerships. The guide provides guidance and examples to assist companies in accounting for, quantification and tracking of their greenhouse gas emissions using internationally accepted Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard.
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