By Jon Powers, President at CleanCapital, and Roger Ballentine, President at Green Strategies, Inc. Originally published by CleanCapital. — The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, developed over 25 years ago, has become the standard for corporate emissions tracking. It began as a voluntary framework and is now used by over 90% of companies that track emissions. In […]
In late 2024, Green Strategies issued a survey to companies to ask how potential changes to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s (the Protocol) Scope 2 Guidance might impact their clean electricity procurement practices. We recently released our results in a report, How Scope 2 Revisions May Change Clean Electricity Procurement Strategies. Why did we do this […]
Today, hundreds of companies use the GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance to account for their clean electricity purchases. While stakeholder Scope 2 revision proposals often draw upon energy system modeling and desktop studies, almost no research has been done to evaluate how buyers themselves may change their clean electricity procurement strategies under revised accounting rules. […]
How to Make Hourly Scope 2 Allocational Accounting Work? Roger and Patrick explore this question in a recent article published by SSRN. Read on to learn more. Abstract The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (the Protocol) was established as a global standard guiding consistent accounting and reporting of corporate greenhouse gas emissions. A central purpose of the […]
Special Edition Blog from Green Strategies Senior Advisor, Miranda Ballentine After a slow year in 2023, you might have wondered if corporates were backtracking on their clean energy ambitions. Well, 2024 marks ten years since the Clean Energy Buyers Alliance (CEBA) started counting carbon-free energy (CFE) deals announced by voluntary energy buyers, and let’s just […]
