GHG Protocol
Developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the GHG Protocol provides a set of standards and tools for quantifying GHG emissions in different contexts: organizations, products, projects, policies, or cities.
Main Standards:
- Corporate Standard: For calculating emissions at the organizational level.
- Value Chain Standard (Scope 3): Evaluates indirect emissions throughout the supply chain.
- Project Standard: Measures the benefits of mitigation initiatives.
- Product Standard: Quantifies emissions over the product's lifecycle.
- Policy and Action Standard: Evaluates the impacts of public policies.
- City Standard: Designed for emission inventories at the municipal level.
Emission Classification:
- Scope 1: Direct emissions (combustion, company vehicles, etc.).
- Scope 2: Indirect emissions from energy consumption.
- Scope 3: Indirect emissions along the value chain (purchases, logistics, travel, waste...).
Key Principles of the GHG Protocol:
- Relevance
- Integrity
- Consistency
- Transparency
- Accuracy
Why adopt it?
- Facilitates carbon footprint measurement.
- Enables setting reduction targets based on real data.
- Strengthens transparency with investors, customers, and regulators.
- Required by international initiatives like CDP or Science Based Targets (SBTi).
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