Emissions-focused standards provider Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol has delayed the publication of its ‘Land Sector and Removals’ guidance following the failure of its advisory committee to reach agreement on a proposal for forest carbon accounting. This guidance was initially due to be published in the first quarter of this year, but has now been pushed back to the end of the year instead. The GHG Protocol has set up new a working group to help find a resolution to this issue. “This technical working group is pivotal to the successful completion of the Land Sector and Removals Standard and Guidance. The GHG Protocol secretariat is grateful to this international group for forest carbon experts volunteering their time to help GHG Protocol reach a resolution on this critical forest carbon accounting issue,” said Matt Ramlow, Land Sector and Removals Lead. A lack of consensus also exists over the methodology for calculating emissions leakage from the agricultural sector. GHG Protocol develops international-accepted standards on land use, carbon removals and storage, biogenic products and related topics for use in the public and private sector to inform mitigation strategies, track performance and report inventories.
