Topic: emissions inventories

Building the capacity of developing countries to track progress towards meeting domestic climate, energy, and development goals.

This paper suggests greenhouse gas accounting and reporting procedures for the agricultural sector, based on the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard.

This Working Paper summarizes the common challenges identified by greenhouse gas accounting and reporting programs at the March 2010 International Workshop of GHG Protocol-based Programs. It then goes on to present recommendations generated by workshop participants on how to best address these shared needs.

This paper provides recommendations and options for harmonizing accounting rules for developed country, or Annex I, emissions reduction pledges for a post-2012 climate policy under discussion in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change‘s (UNFCCC) Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) negotiations track.

This working paper analyzes the main methodological issues involved in making an citywide transportation emissions inventory and explores how they can influence the inventory’s results.

New Protocol Released to Support U.S. Government’s Greenhouse Gas Accounting

Document Coincides with One-Year Anniversary of Executive Order on GHG Reductions

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol for the U.S. Public Sector: Interpreting the Corporate Standard for U.S. Public Sector Organizations

This report provides tailored guidance to interpret the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard specifically for the public sector.

For more information on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, please visit http://www.ghgprotocol.org/

Update from the star-studded launch of a new chain of sustainable restaurants.

U.S. policymakers at the federal, regional and state level are discussing market-based policies to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Below are answers to commonly asked questions about the scope of such legislation and the costs and benefits for business.

Brazil has turned its international climate commitments into national law, but that’s only the beginning.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

WHAT: Please join the World Resources Institute (WRI) for a policy briefing for journalists on Wednesday that will summarize progress

New WRI Web App Allows Easy Analysis of Developed Country Climate Pledges

Demonstrates that Current Pledges Fall Short

All the latest emission reduction pledges from developed countries, including recent announcements from the U.S. and Russia, are incorporated in an interactive Web application released by the World Resources Institute (WRI) here today at the U.N. climate conference.

New targets and deforestation numbers put Brazil in the spotlight.

From September to November 2009, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is conducting an initial scoping of issues to improve in its updated sustainability policies.

Sao Paulo recently became one of the first cities in the developing world to implement a citywide plan to fight climate change.