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VIDEO: Leading Companies Use New Standards to Uncover Greatest Sources of...
Director of the GHG Protocol, Pankaj Bhatia, explains the Corporate Value Chain and Product Lifecycle Standards for measuring greenhouse gas emissions. Photo credit: WRILast week’s Rio+20 conference...
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Sustainability at WRI: Recommitting to Walking the Talk
The green roof on WRI's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Photo credit: WRIAt WRI, we pride ourselves in being a mission-driven organization that defines success as bringing about positive outcomes in...
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A Look Inside Facebook’s Carbon Footprint
Facebook has 950 million users (and counting), but the company did not include user emissions in its new greenhouse gas inventory. Photo credit: Flickr/ Anna BriggsFacebook, a business that relies so...
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3 Lessons for Better Supply Chain Management
The Carbon Disclosure Project’s annual survey of the Global 500 reveals that seven in 10 respondents measured some value chain emissions in 2011. Photo credit: Flickr/Robert ScobleThis post originally...
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We Need Your Help: Take Our Survey on Greenhouse Gas Accounting for the...
GHG Protocol and UNEP Finance Initiative will develop a guidance to help the financial sector measure its "financed emissions." Photo credit: Flickr/s_falkowThe Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol recently...
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Released for Review: New Standards for Tracking GHG Emissions from Policies...
Decision-makers in countries, states, and cities need to understand the emissions impacts associated with their mitigation policies and goals. Photo credit: Flickr/Dennison UyWith the latest round of...
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For the First Time, a Common Framework for Cities’ Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Rio de Janeiro is one city that is trying to measure its greenhouse gas emissions. Photo credit: Rodrigo_Soldon/Flickr“You cannot manage what you cannot measure” is a well-known adage for business, and...
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A New Tool to Measure and Reduce Emissions from Agriculture
Agricultural emissions are responsible for at least 10-12 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and are projected to grow. Photo credit: Nick McPhee, FlickrAgriculture is a major actor in spurring...
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New Guidance Makes Corporate Value Chain Accounting Easier
GHG Protocol's Scope 3 Standard helps companies account for greenhouse gas emissions across the entire value chain. Photo credit: William Cho, FlickrAn effective corporate climate change strategy...
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Lessons Learned from Low-Carbon City Planning in Malaysia
Kuching is a medium-sized city in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak. Photo credit: MyBukit, FlickrStacy Kotorac, a project coordinator/research assistant with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, also...
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Nitrogen Trifluoride Now Required in GHG Protocol Greenhouse Gas Emissions...
The GHG Protocol now requires NF3 to be included in GHG inventories. Photo credit: Jon Pinder, FlickrScientific understanding of the chemicals that contribute to climate change is constantly improving....
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33 Cities Test New Framework for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Feedback from participant cities like Rio de Janeiro will improve the GPC (Photo credit: Rodrigo Soldon, Flickr).A growing number of countries and companies now measure and manage their emissions...
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Rio de Janeiro Poised to Update Its Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Michael Doust from Greater London Authority, Prof. Emilio Lèbre La Rovere from COPPE, and Dr. Wee Kean Fong from WRI at the panel discussion. Photo Credit: City of Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro is a...
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A New Way to Measure Emissions from China’s Coal-Fired Power Plants
A coal-fired power plant near Beijing. Photo credit: Bret Arnett, FlickrThis post was co-authored by Xiaoyu Shi, a former Associate in WRI’s Climate and Energy program.To prevent the most severe...
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New Greenhouse Gas Accounting Tool Will Help China’s Cities Pursue Low-Carbon...
Nanjing Road, Shanghai. Photo credit: Austronesian Expeditions, FlickrLow-carbon development has become the core theme of China’s urbanization. In fact, it’s one of the country’s key strategies to...
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