Topic: emissions inventories

This working paper analyzes the main methodological issues involved in making an citywide transportation emissions inventory and explores how they can influence the inventory’s results.

Document Coincides with One-Year Anniversary of Executive Order on GHG Reductions

This report provides tailored guidance to interpret the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard specifically for the public sector.

For more information on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, please visit http://www.ghgprotocol.org/

Update from the star-studded launch of a new chain of sustainable restaurants.

U.S. policymakers at the federal, regional and state level are discussing market-based policies to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Below are answers to commonly asked questions about the scope of such legislation and the costs and benefits for business.

Brazil has turned its international climate commitments into national law, but that’s only the beginning.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

WHAT: Please join the World Resources Institute (WRI) for a policy briefing for journalists on Wednesday that will summarize progress

Demonstrates that Current Pledges Fall Short

All the latest emission reduction pledges from developed countries, including recent announcements from the U.S. and Russia, are incorporated in an interactive Web application released by the World Resources Institute (WRI) here today at the U.N. climate conference.

New targets and deforestation numbers put Brazil in the spotlight.

From September to November 2009, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is conducting an initial scoping of issues to improve in its updated sustainability policies.

Sao Paulo recently became one of the first cities in the developing world to implement a citywide plan to fight climate change.

Total global emissions grew 12.7% between 2000 and 2005, an average of 2.4% a year.

**This chart is a comprehensive view of global, anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

World Greenhouse Gas Emissions in 2005 is a comprehensive view of global, anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The chart in this working paper is an updated version of the original chart, which appeared in Navigating the Numbers: Greenhouse Gas Data and International Climate Policy (WRI, 2005).

WRI submitted comments to the US Treasury on key issues the World Bank must address during its World Bank Energy Strategy review.

Citywide Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories: A Review of Selected Methodologies

New Protocol Released to Support U.S. Government’s Greenhouse Gas Accounting

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol for the U.S. Public Sector: Interpreting the Corporate Standard for U.S. Public Sector Organizations

Otarian Restaurant in New York City Uses WRI’s Greenhouse Gas Protocol

Bottom Line on Climate Bill Compliance

Brazil's Global Warming Agenda

WRI’s Lash to Brief Press on Copenhagen’s Policy Implications for U.S. and Other Key Countries

New WRI Web App Allows Easy Analysis of Developed Country Climate Pledges

Brazil Pledges Ambitious Emissions Reductions

Review of IFC Performance Standards and Sustainability Policy Overview of Key Issues

Sao Paulo Adopts Comprehensive Climate Change Policy

Global CO2 Emissions Growth in Select Sectors: 2000-2005

World Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 2005

World Greenhouse Gas Emissions in 2005

WRI Comments on the 2009 World Bank Energy Strategy

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