New Publication to be released at COP-13 in Bali
The latest in the series of GHG Protocol publications, tentatively titled ‘Measuring to Manage: A Guide to Designing Programs for GHG Accounting and Reporting,’ will be launched at the Conference of Parties (COP)-13 in Bali, Indonesia this December.Read More
New Documents - Publication Developments
Financial Sector Climate Risk [fdaviet@wri.org] WRI is continuing to work on a document focusing on climate risk management for financial institutions. The guidance will help financial institutions identify and assess their exposure associated with financial transactions (i.e., debt and equity investments). Specifically the Climate Risk Management Tool will serve three important objectives: • An industry standard to account and categorize GHG emissions from financial transactions, • Provide portfolio managers with information to assess climate risk exposure in portfolios, and • Systematically identify which elements of an investment portfolio need more in-depth climate risk analysis. The principles, concepts, and methodologies developed in this tool will be consistent with...Read More
Two New Publications Released
The GHG Protocol Initiative will release two publications at the beginning of July, “Guidelines for Quantifying GHG Reductions from Grid-Connected Electricity Projects” and “Designing a Customized Greenhouse Gas Calculation Tool.”Read More
LULUCF Performance Standard Approach Met with Enthusiasm at Nairobi Launch
Project developers are concerned that high transaction costs and uncertainty around the acceptance of projects by governing bodies is limiting the number of projects being developed in Africa and around the world. This concern has resulted in an interest in thinking about GHG project development differently. Stakeholders were interested to hear more about the performance standard approach for Land Use, Land-Use change and Forestry (LULUCF) projects at the Nairobi Conference of Parties (COP-12), which provides a methodology for setting a multi-project GHG removal baseline for GHG Projects.Read More
WRI Team travels to Nairobi to launch LULUCF Guide to Project Accounting
On Nov. 7, Florence Daviet and Suzie Greenhalgh of WRI will travel to Nairobi, Kenya to present the “Land use, Land-use change and Forestry Guidance for GHG Project Accounting” (LULUCF) at the Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP-12).Read More
