2022 04 26 Standards WG

Agenda

1. Discuss the perspective of existing ESG standards (their Carbon Action and Accounting component). This video gives a brief overview: (57) ESG Frameworks & Standards - YouTube.
2. Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, Sustainable Policy Institute:  Standards in sustainable finance
3. Next step from previous meeting: Go to standards bodies, ask for their structures and do a pattern matching exercise; i.e., ask: What is all the information that <standard x> requires for a project/issuance? Does our ontology provide the space for all those attributes? GHG-Protocol-Reporting-Template.pdf. 
4. Work through REDD APD example from Hedera Guardian.
5. Review EU Taxonomy, NACE and NAICS:
   • EU taxonomy for sustainable activities | European Commission (europa.eu)
   • EU Taxonomy Compass | European Commission (europa.eu)
   • Complete list of all NACE Code (nacev2.com)
   • North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) U.S. Census Bureau
   • North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Canada 2017 Version 3.0 (statcan.gc.ca)

Recording:

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Time:

• Tuesday, April 26th, 2022 at 08 AM Pacific
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Meeting Notes

The EU taxonomy "

The Taxonomy sets performance thresholds ... for economic activities  which:
• make a substantive contribution to one of six environmental objectives (Figure 1);
• do no significant harm (DNSH) to the other five, where relevant;
• meet minimum safeguards 

". How are these types (performance thresholds, assessment of what is substantial, harm) placed in our shema

Repo for protobufs: https://github.com/aartum/CA2-SIG-StandardsWG