What is the GHG Protocol? The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG
Protocol) is the most widely used international accounting tool
for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and
manage greenhouse gas emissions. A decade-long partnership
between the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World
Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the GHG
Protocol is working with businesses, governments, and
environmental groups around the world to build a new generation
of credible and effective programs for tackling climate change.
It serves as the foundation for nearly every GHG standard and
program in the world - from the International Standards
Organization to The Climate Registry - as well as hundreds of
GHG inventories prepared by individual companies. The GHG
Protocol also offers developing countries an internationally
accepted management tool to help their businesses to compete in
the global marketplace and their governments to make informed
decisions about climate change. The GHG Protocol I