The Carbon Call Initiative: Accurate Emissions Reporting
The ClimateWorks Foundation recently launched the Carbon Call initiative to reform emissions reporting practices in collaboration with more than 20 leading organizations, including Microsoft and the United Nations Environment Programme. These groups will be partnering to improve access to data and the understanding of science so that information can be shared among carbon accounting records and their supporting data ecosystems. With increased funding and research, Carbon Call looks to create a global system that can be used to track, report, and compare GHG data worldwide to advance the development of universal accounting standards.
Completing the Data
Issues with data quality, inconsistencies in reporting, and infrastructure challenges are just some of the problems encountered in carbon accounting. Participating organizations will look to remove challenges in order to uncover and address gaps in existing global carbon accounting mechanisms through focusing on carbon removal and land sector, methane and indirect emissions. The Washington Post estimates that underreported GHG emissions range between 8.5 billion to 13.3 billion tons annually. It is vital that this information is accurately recorded and reported in order to establish climate accountability and attribution. The groups hope to identify where more accurate information is needed in order to improve reliability and advance interoperability of reporting systems.
What are the Commitments?
Signatories to the Carbon Call have committed to:
Comprehensively report GHG emissions across all Scopes of Emissions (Scope 1, 2, 3) and all classes of GHGs in line with available methodologies and best practice.
Annually report each year to ensure progress is measured.
Transparently make GHG emissions information available to the public to track progress.
What Can Accurate Carbon Accounting Do?
With many companies making promises centered around carbon neutrality, it is important to have a system in place that will standardize data collection processes and encourage transparency. The Carbon Call has mobilized a wide range of groups who participate in GHG accounting, ranging from corporations to non-governmental organizations, all aiming to improve this process in order to accurately understand emission levels and their effects. The initiative also aims to make this information publicly accessible as a way of encouraging transparency and furthering action.
With the increase in collaboration and funding, improvements to carbon accounting systems will be accelerated to hopefully reach the end goal of developing a reliable and interoperable carbon accounting system for all.
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