Background

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) is the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. The GHG Protocol, a decade-long partnership between the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, is working with businesses, governments, and environmental groups around the world to build a new generation of credible and effective programs for tackling climate change.

It provides the accounting framework for nearly every GHG standard and program in the world - from the International Standards Organization to The Climate Registry - as well as hundreds of GHG inventories prepared by individual companies.

Goal

WRI works to disseminate and implement GHG Protocol standards and tools to inform the design of effective business and government programs and policies to combat climate change.

Projects

In China, WRI focus on three areas:

1. Develop GHG Protocol standards and tools for China

Working with partners, WRI contributes to the development of standards, tools and methodologies in various sectors and areas, therefore removing the technical barriers for GHG quantification, accounting and reporting in China.

Industrial standards and tools

• Power Sector
• Cement Sector
• Oil and Gas Sector
• Chemical Sector
• Petro Chemical Sector

Partners:

• China Business Council for Sustainable Development
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development Cement Sustainable Initiative
• China Building Materials Academy
• China Electricity Council

Cross Sector standards and tools

• GHG Protocol Scope 3 (Value Chain) Standard
• GHG Protocol Product Standard
• Energy – GHG conversion tool
• Hong Kong GHG Guidelines for Buildings

Partners:

• Tsinghua University
• NDRC Energy Research Institute
• China National Institute of Standardization
• Institute for Sustainable Communities
• Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department

City and Provincial level low carbon performance tracking policy framework

Partners:

• Tsinghua University
• Guangdong Energy Conservation Center
• Guangzhou Academy of Energy Testing and Inspection

2. Build GHG quantification, accounting and reporting capacity in China

Aiming to address capacity challenges in human resources, WRI works to train skilled GHG management professional en mass in China through training of trainers and capacity building programs.

Partners:

• Institute for Sustainable Communities
• Guangdong EHS Academy
• Hong Kong Productivity Council
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• China Building Materials Academy

3. Assist the development of GHG management programs in China

Practical, rigorous and harmonized programs are crucial to the management of greenhouse gases. Therefore, WRI provides technical assistance to various GHG management programs.

Partners:

• Energy and Climate Registry
• Tianjin Climate Exchange
• Beijing Environment Exchange
• Society of Entrepreneurs and Ecology
• China Cement Association
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• China Building Materials Academy
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development Cement Sustainable Initiative