Guidance
When figuring out the list of baseline candidates for a project, it’s not a straightforward process. It involves going through steps in a certain order, but you might need to go back and...
Baseline Candidates: “Baseline candidates” are like different options or methods that you could use to achieve the same result in your project. These options could be various technologies or...
The Project Protocol presents two procedures for estimating baseline emissions associated with a project activity’s primary effect: the project-specific and performance standard procedures. This blog provides...
Identifying Project Activities
Project Activity: A project activity is like a specific action or step taken to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. GHGs are gases like carbon dioxide and methane that...
Imagine you have a project that’s meant to reduce the amount of harmful greenhouse gases (GHGs) released into the environment. To accurately measure how much it helps, you need to consider everything...
This blog talks about six principles that are meant to be the foundation for accounting, measuring, and reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions in projects. These principles are like fundamental rules...
“GHG project accounting” refers to keeping track of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from various projects.
Now, when we say “involves making decisions that directly relate to policy choices...
A number of key concepts must be understood to account for GHG reductions from GHG projects. This blog explains the importance of these concepts and describes how and where they are used in Project Protocol.
GHG...
Project Protocol – Introduction
The GHG Protocol for Project Accounting is a set of rules and guidelines that helps measure and report the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or the increase...
Guidance
1. Steps for setting reduction targets and tracking changes
Step 1: Complete and report a base inventory
The company needs to create a starting list (base inventory) of the environmental impact...