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The GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard provides requirements and guidance for companies and other organizations preparing a GHG emissions inventory. It was designed with the following objectives in mind:

To help companies prepare a GHG inventory that represents a true and fair account of their emissions through the use of standardized approaches and principles
To simplify and reduce the costs of compiling a GHG inventory
To provide business with information that can be used to build an effective strategy to manage and reduce GHG emissions
To increase consistency and transparency in GHG accounting and reporting among various companies and GHG programs

The module builds on the experience and knowledge of over 350 leading experts drawn from businesses, NGOs, governments and accounting associations. It has been road-tested by over 30 companies in nine countries.

Who Can Use the Corporate Standard?

This standard is written primarily from the perspective of a business developing a GHG inventory. However, it applies equally to other types of organizations with operations that give rise to GHG emissions, e.g., NGOs, government agencies, and universities. It should not be used to quantify the reductions associated with GHG mitigation projects for use as offsets or credits; the GHG Protocol for Project Accounting provides requirements and guidance for this purpose. Policy makers and architects of GHG programs can also use relevant parts of this standard as a basis for their own accounting and reporting requirements.

Compatibility with Other GHG Programs

The GHG Protocol Corporate Standard has been designed to be program or policy neutral. However, it is compatible with most existing GHG programs and their own accounting and reporting requirements. It is important to distinguish between the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard from other GHG programs. This standard focuses only on the accounting and reporting of emissions, but does not require emissions information to be reported to WRI or WBCSD. In addition, while this standard is designed to develop a verifiable inventory, it does not provide a standard for how the verification process should be conducted.

Calculation Tools

To complement the standard and guidance provided here, a number of cross-sector and sector-specific calculation tools are available. These tools provide step-by-step guidance and electronic worksheets to help users calculate GHG emissions from specific sources or industries.

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The Greenhouse Gas Protocol

Helps companies and other organizations to identify, calculate, and report GHG emissions by outlining a standard for accurate, complete, consistent, relevant and transparent accounting and reporting by companies and organizations.

Executive Summary

The GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard helps companies and other organizations to identify, calculate, and report GHG emissions. It is designed to set the standard for accurate, complete, consistent, relevant and transparent accounting and reporting of GHG emissions by companies and organizations, including information on setting organizational and operational boundaries, tracking emissions over time, and reporting emissions. It also provides guidance on GHG accounting and reporting principles, business goals and inventory design, managing inventory quality, accounting for GHG reductions, verification of GHG emissions, and setting a GHG target.

This revised edition of the GHG Protocol: Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard is the culmination of an extensive two-year multi-stakeholder dialogue, designed to improve the rigor, quality, and user-friendliness of the first edition. It provides standards and guidelines for companies and other types of organizations preparing a GHG emissions inventory. It is supplemented by a number of electronic GHG calculation tools, freely available on the GHG Protocol website, that provide step by step guidance on calculating GHG emissions from specific sources (e.g., stationary and mobile combustion, process emissions) and industry sectors (e.g., cement, pulp and paper aluminum, iron and steel and office-based organizations). It covers the accounting and reporting of the six greenhouse gases covered by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

This revised edition has been designed with the following objectives in mind:

Promote greater consistency, transparency and quality in corporate GHG accounting and reporting practices through the use of standardized approaches and principles;

Simplify and reduce the costs of corporate GHG accounting and;

Provide business with information that can be used to build an effective strategy to manage and reduce emissions;

Provide information that facilitates business participation in different GHG programs, including trading, registries, and other GHG reduction efforts; and

Increase consistency in GHG accounting and reporting between different GHG programs.

The corporate accounting and reporting standard builds on the experience and knowledge of over 350 leading experts drawn from businesses, NGOs, governments and accounting associations. It has been roadtested by over 30 companies in nine countries. The GHG Protocol Initiative's vision is to harmonize GHG accounting and reporting standards internationally to ensure that different trading schemes and other climate related initiatives adopt consistent approaches to GHG accounting.

Greenhouse Gas Protocol

The global standard for companies and organizations to measure and manage their GHG emissions and become more efficient, resilient, and prosperous.

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP), a joint initiative of World Resources Institute and WBCSD, is part of the Climate Program. Contact Mollie Freeman for more details or media inquiries.

The Paris Agreement commits countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius, in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. The GHG Protocol arose out of the need to help countries and companies account for, report, and mitigate emissions, based on a report that identified an action agenda to address climate change that included the need for standardized measurement of GHG emissions.

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) provides accounting and reporting standards, sector guidance, calculation tools and trainings for businesses and local and national governments. It has created a comprehensive, global, standardized framework for measuring and managing emissions from private and public sector operations, value chains, products, cities and policies to enable greenhouse gas reductions across the board.

Overview of GHG Protocol scopes and emissions across the value chain. Learn more here.

WRI and WBCSD created the GHGP as an international standard for corporate accounting and reporting emissions, categorizing GHGs into Scope 1, 2 and 3 based on the source. It is now the most widely used accounting tools to track GHG emissions, with nine out of ten Fortune 500 companies reporting to CDP use our comprehensive global standardized framework. GHGPl also provides webinar, e-learning and in-person training and capacity-building support on its standards and tools. We also offer the “Built on GHG Protocol” review service, which recognizes sector guidance, product rules and tools in conformance with GHG Protocol standards.

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