Let Green Gas Count: GHG Protocol Should Fully Recognise Robust Market Instruments in End-Users’ Scope 1 Emissions Inventories
Read the joint letter here.
145 companies and associations globally call for clarity on the role of market instruments for renewable gases in the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol.
Following the withdrawal of guidance on the use of biomethane certificates in the GHG Protocol, over 140 companies and trade associations from around the world have issued a joint letter to the members of the GHG Protocol governance bodies, calling for the key role of market-based instruments to be recognised in the Protocol’s Scope 1 inventory. Their message to the GHG Protocol is simple: Let Green Gas Count.
The signatories represent economic operators globally responsible for the production, trading and consumption of renewable gaseous fuels and their derivatives. They underline the urgent need for a climate reporting framework that provides rules and certainty for investment in their sectors.
As the Corporate Standard of the GHG Protocol is being revised, the signatories urge its governance bodies to include such an approach in the Scope 1 inventory, for both fuel and feedstock applications.
Additionally, the signatories appeal to the governing bodies to issue an interim statement in the first half of 2025, confirming that robust market instruments for renewable gases will be recognised at the end of the Corporate Standard revision process to support the decarbonisation of industries.
Download the letter and press release below.
