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Carbon accounting refers to the discipline of measurement and accounting techniques that serve to measure the carbon footprint of an organization or individual, and the trading of carbon credits or offsetting techniques involved in this domain.
Carbon accounting is a necessary step in establishing a quantifiable groundwork for carbon-related legislature and decision making.
Scientific institutions provide an international regulatory framework for all organizations to be measured under the same standards, such as:
The cooperation of these institutions in creating a universal regulatory framework helps prevent “greenwashing”, where companies claim to be more green than they are. Carbon accounting also includes the business of carbon credit trading for states and businesses.
ADEME recently released a proposal to shift from the use of scope emissions to a new methodology that will make use of emissions categories. How and why would these new emissions categories prove useful in the race to reduce global emissions?
The Paris Agreement is an international treaty designed to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but has it actually succeeded in tackling climate change?
What is an ESG score? Why is it important? And how can companies obtain their own ESG report?
