Guidance
Guidance

GHG Protocol develops guidance to provide clarity on how specific sectors can apply GHG Protocol standards.

Explore GHG Protocol guidance and working papers exploring additional greenhouse gas accounting topics below.

Guidance

The Scope 2 Guidance standardizes how corporations measure emissions from purchased or acquired electricity, steam, heat, and cooling (called "scope 2 emissions").

Scope 2 Guidance

The Scope 2 Guidance standardizes how corporations measure emissions from purchased or acquired electricity, steam, heat, and cooling (called "scope 2 emissions").

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Companies and Organizations
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The GHG Protocol Agricultural Guidance is a supplement to GHG Protocol Corporate Standard and covers all agricultural subsectors, including livestock, crop production, and land use change.

Agriculture Guidance

The GHG Protocol Agricultural Guidance, a supplement to the Corporate Standard, is the first ever global guidance to measure GHG emissions for the agriculture sector. It covers all agricultural subsectors, including livestock, crop production, and land use change.

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Companies and Organizations
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Estimating and Reporting Avoided Emissions

This paper provides a neutral framework for estimating and disclosing both positive and negative impacts of products and recommendations for companies to improve the credibility and consistency of claims they make about the comparative greenhouse gas impacts of their products.

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Companies and Organizations
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Interpreting the Corporate Standard for U.S. Public Sector Organizations

Public Sector Protocol

The GHG Protocol has developed accounting guidance that interprets the principles from the Corporate Standard for the unique structures and needs of U.S. government operations at the federal, state and local level.

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Countries and Cities
The first-ever comprehensive global guidance for measuring and reporting the potential greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the fossil fuel reserves held by oil, coal and gas companies.

Potential Emissions from Fossil Fuel Reserves

The first-ever global guidance for measuring and reporting the potential greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the fossil fuel reserves held by oil, coal and gas companies.

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Fossil Fuel Companies
The GHG Protocol Agricultural Guidance is a supplement to GHG Protocol Corporate Standard and covers all agricultural subsectors, including livestock, crop production, and land use change.

Land Sector and Removals Standard

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Companies and Organizations

GPC Supplemental Guidance for Forests and Trees

The Supplemental Guidance for Forests and Trees offers cities and other communities a robust, transparent, and globally applicable framework to consistently identify, calculate, and report on GHG emissions and removals by forests and trees within communities’ boundaries.

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Cities and Communities

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