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.
The GHG Protocol also offers developing countries an internationally accepted management tool to help their businesses to compete in the global marketplace and their governments to make informed decisions about climate change.
GHG Protocol-based sector guidance, product rules, and calculation tools Approaches and branding guidelines to develop GHG Protocol-based sector guidance, product rules, and calculation toolsThe GHG Protocol creates standards and tools that are applicable to any organization, company, and sector. Additional guidance or calculation tools that build upon the more general standards are developed by the GHG Protocol in response to user needs. However, other groups and organizations are also developing their own guidance and tools to support GHG Protocol Standards. |
September 2012 Webinar Training: GHG Protocol Corporate StandardThe GHG Protocol will be hosting an online training course on the Corporate Standard, the most widely used standard for companies and organizations to measure and manage their GHG emissions. All GHG Protocol Corporate Standard Webinar Course attendees will receive a certificate of course completion after actively participating in all course sessions. The learning objectives for the course are available here. |
New Video: The business value of the GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle and Corporate Value Chain StandardsLast week’s Rio+20 conference failed to yield strong sustainability commitments from corporations. |
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RELEASE: International Partners Release Pilot Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions C40, ICLEI, WRI and partners achieve a significant milestone towards establishing a single standard for measuring emissions for cities |
