Basic Information
The balance between the amount of greenhouse gas produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere.
What is Net Zero?
The global atmospheric CO2 concentration as of January 2024?
What is 422.16 parts per million (ppm)?
Direct emissions that are owned or controlled by a company.
What are Scope 1 Emissions?
The source of around three-quarters of greenhouse gas emissions today.
What is the energy sector?
The percent emissions that need to be reduced by 2030.
What is 45%?
Provides accounting and reporting standards to measure and manage greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from private and public sector operations.
What is the GHG Protocol?
The primary cause of climate warming since the Industrial Revolution.
What are human activities?
The current rate of warming per decade we are experiencing.
What is 0.2°C?
A type of GHG accounting that combines emissions data from across an entity’s operations (emissions have mostly already occurred)
What is entity accounting?
The global temperature threshold represents the limit increase crucial to averting the worst impacts of climate change and preserving a livable planet.
What is 1.5°C?
The projected year where over 30 days of fatal heat per year could threaten millions of urban residents in sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia.
What is 2080?
This type of GHG accounting quantifies emissions that will be avoided by a given project in the future.
What is project accounting?
The world’s largest coalition of non-state actors taking immediate action to halve global emissions by 2030
What is Race to Zero?
The estimated percentage of coral reefs that could face extinction if global temperatures rise by 2°C?
What is 99%
This type of GHG accounting combines emissions data (past and future) from all phases of an individual product or service.
What is product accounting?