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The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) published their Scope 3 Stakeholder Survey Responses recently. With our latest series, let's unpack what the respondents suggested and what's the pros and cons of each suggestion. First up in our series - let's chat the often criticised 💸 Spend-Based Calculation methods 💸 Catch the full interview linked in the comments ⬇️ Stay tuned for Part 2 - where we'll delve into what the feedback means for those magic numbers 🪄 Emission Factors 🪄

GHG Protocol's Scope 3 Survey Draft Summary Report and Proposal Summary are now available 📋💨 Between November 2022 and March 2023, Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) invited interested stakeholders to provide feedback via a survey on the Scope 3 Standard, and we received 354 survey responses and approximately 100 proposals. The Draft Summary Report and Proposal Summary provide a detailed overview of stakeholder feedback. To ensure that GHG Protocol is accurately representing survey feedback, we are holding a review period to invite comments only from individuals/organizations who completed the Scope 3 Survey who believe their feedback was either not adequately included or misrepresented.   Read the report and learn how you can provide feedback: https://bit.ly/3IA37dV

The 6th Greenhouse Gas Inventory System Training Workshop will enhance the capacity of government officials and experts from the Asia-Pacific region to manage and report GHG inventories and support the preparation of BTR1 and NDCs updates under the Paris Agreement.  Key expected outcomes: 🔹 Deepen understanding of the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)  🔹 Learn the new ETF reporting tools  🔹 Share advanced knowledge and experiences 🔹 Engage in NDC 3.0 updates and BTR1 preparations and foster regional collaboration Vlad Trusca; Tomoyuki AIZAWA

Dear #digitalProductPassport network, I would like to share these guidelines with you that I worked on with the #Track and #Trace working group of the Global Battery Alliance. It is targeting the upstream handling and aggregation of #ESG performance indicators, in particular the #carbonfootprint of suppliers along battery supply chain. Please also find a first technical implementation profile that is based on #SSI technology, using #verifiable #credentials for the #greenhouse #gas data sheets that can be changed in an ad-hoc way between supply chain actors. This approach makes the #CO2footprint of a #battery verifiable.

The GBA is pleased to publish a first draft of "Guidelines for Track & Trace Service Providers on ESG Data Declaration, Exchange, and Aggregation Version 1.0." for general information. As the GBA is launching wave two battery passport pilots, these guidelines will serve participating companies and the GBA to assess data aggregation and exchange strategies using GHG emissions, reported according to the GBA’s Greenhouse Gas rulebook as an example. A separate set of conformance criteria for the Phase II pilots are being developed with the GBA’s Track & Trace working group. Since these guidelines and conformance criteria are for testing purposes only, participating companies are not yet expected to be fully compliant with all criteria. The GBA expects to update the guidelines after completion of wave two pilots after which structured feedback may be solicited from relevant stakeholders. https://lnkd.in/enG89SMT

Good morning! Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is organizing this webinar designed to provide attendees with basic information and valuable insights about the objectives of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), potential strategies to address equity concerns, and resources for additional information on this topic. Use the link below to sign up!

🚨 The White House's unveiling of the National Strategy to Advance an Integrated U.S. Greenhouse Gas Measurement, Monitoring, and Information System (GHGMMIS) serves as a pivotal market signal to the private sector, emphasizing the critical importance of atmospheric monitoring and greenhouse gas flux measurement. This initiative underscores the growing necessity for robust scientific methodologies in validating environmental claims, especially within carbon markets!  🎯 As we look ahead, it's clear that the private sector will increasingly recognize the substantial value that GHG Flux Measurements bring. These scientific approaches are not just about accurate impact measurement; they're about contributing to a more transparent, accountable, and environmentally responsible business landscape! 🌎 It’s a long report - so check out the summary below! #GHGMMIS #FluxMeasurements #AtmosphericMonitoring #CarbonMarkets #GreenhouseGas

Methane Emissions Research Summary No.1: Scientific Challenges of Monitoring, Measuring, Reporting, and Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Natural Gas Systems [By David Allen, Arvind Ravikumar, and Erin Tullos, PhD from UT Austin's EEMDL Center] This short viewpoint article covers the scientific challenges of MMRV. This paper briefly covers the role of methane in global warming and the importance of methane emission measurements in developing accurate GHG emission inventories. Based on the paper, global emissions of methane in the oil and gas sector, from wellhead to burner tip, are ∼2% of production, amounting to approximately 100 Tg/yr. It reports that emission estimates based on generic emissions factors and engineering estimates underestimate emissions by 50% or more. The development of systems for monitoring, measuring, reporting, and verifying emissions at a spatial and temporal resolution needed to differentiate among individual natural gas supply chains is one of the challenges mentioned in this article. The paper describes different types of emissions from the oil and gas sector, including large numbers of sources that emit at relatively low rates and small numbers of sources that emit at large rates. In addition, emissions may be continuous or episodic and may be intended or unintended, making their characterization challenging. Converting measurement data collected using different atmospheric sensors into information on methane emissions is another challenge. Atmospheric measurement uncertainties (variation in detection limits and uncertainty levels of each sensing technology) and modeling uncertainties (to convert sensor data to emission rate estimates) add to this complexity. Limitations in spatial and temporal coverage of emissions by measurement technologies (due to measuring at a subset of the oil and gas sites, and/or during a limited time period) require extrapolations in emission estimates to have the whole picture. This process is complex and adds to the uncertainties of emission estimates. The paper reports that depending on the characteristics of emissions, particularly large episodic emissions, these extrapolation uncertainties can be 50% or more. Integrating and reconciling measurements and engineering calculations made at multiple spatial and temporal scales are presented as a remedy to reduce the above-mentioned uncertainties. For example, emission event durations established using continuously operating ground methane monitors, or other relevant parametric process data, could be integrated with engineering calculations or emission quantification measurements made using aircraft overflights. As another example, measurements of total production basin emissions that sum emissions over thousands of sites and measurements of multiple co-emitted species could also be used to place constraints on the extrapolation of individual site-level measurements. link: https://lnkd.in/eYWqfmZy

This is why technologies like #carboncapture are seen as a critical part of any viable path to industrial decarbonization. In many energy-intensive sectors, there are economical alternatives to cut emissions without dramatically raising costs. In some cases, cleaner also means cheaper. In the U.S. power sector, for example, emissions have declined dramatically in the past 20 years, owing primarily to the increased use of #naturalgas, which has also saved consumers billions of dollars in avoided energy costs. The cost of renewable technologies and batteries has also declined to a point where wider adoption is not just possible but actually happening all across the country. But in many industrial processes, fossil fuels like oil and natural gas are irreplaceable. Chemicals use natural gas as a feedstock. The extremely high heat needed for steel requires the dense energy from burning fossil fuels, although there is some innovation around using electricity in this space. Cement manufacturing is even more complex. Inside of a cement kiln is hotter than lava, which requires an enormous amount of energy to achieve. But even if you somehow decarbonized all of the energy inputs to do that, you would still have CO2 emissions due to the natural chemical reaction from calcination. Along with other potential solutions like hydrogen, a technology like #CCS provides the only realistic option for bending the industrial emissions curve downward in the near term.

Each Monday, we’ll share a snippet from our methodology for rewarding carbon storage in shade-grown commodities in a new series, obviously called, 🤓 Methodology Mondays! 🪙 First up: are offsets included in our methodology? 🤓 Carble’s methodology is designed to reduce emissions within value chains and is not meant to be used for the voluntary carbon market. As such, the methodology can be used as a supplement to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) Land-sector & Removals guidance (currently still in draft), especially section 8.2 (providing accounting requirements for anthropogenic land management net CO2 emissions and removals). You can download the methodology here: https://lnkd.in/e3U-DG6V #methodology #carbonemissions #ecosystemservices #coffee #cocoa