Greenhouse Gas Protocol
Standards and tools for companies and organizations to manage their GHG emissions and become more efficient, resilient, and prosperous.
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) provides accounting and reporting standards, sector guidance, calculation tools, and trainings for business and government. It establishes a comprehensive, global, standardized framework for measuring and managing emissions from private and public sector operations, value chains, products, cities, and policies.
The GHG Protocol also provides webinar, e-learning and in-person training and capacity-building support on its standards and tools. In addition, GHG Protocol offers companies and organizations the opportunity to apply for our “Built on GHG Protocol” mark that recognizes sector guidance, product rules, or tools that are in conformance with GHG Protocol Standards.
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol offers online learning solutions to get busy professionals up-to-speed on the world's most widely used greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting standards. Hosted on a low-cost and convenient e-learning platform, these courses are valuable for both experienced professionals and those just breaking into this emerging field.
Online courses have been developed for the following GHG Protocol standards:
Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard
Building off the Corporate Standard, the Scope 3 Standard allows companies to account and report their full value chain impacts. Many companies find that 80% or more of their GHG emissions come from their value chain, which makes understanding and managing these emissions so important.
Product Lifecycle Standard
What is a product’s carbon footprint? How can you reduce it? The Product Standard teaches students how to measure and manage the GHG emissions associated with a product over its complete life cycle.
Mitigation Goal Standard
How can countries, cities and states measure and report progress on commitments made to limit GHG emissions? The Mitigation Goal Standard provides guidance for designing national and subnational mitigation goals and a standardized approach for assessing and reporting progress toward goal achievement.
Policy and Action Standard
This standard provides a way for analysts at the national and local levels to evaluate the GHG impacts of specific policies, helping to improve their effectiveness in reducing emissions and inform where to invest resources to achieve the best results.
Visit the GHGP website to learn more. Have questions? Contact Yelena Akopian.