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Mission
The mission and goals of the Climate Action and Accounting SIG includes " to turn this network into action under a common open source project that defines shared protocols, standards, and platform tools for a globally integrated climate accounting system to be operationalized. "
This working group will focus particularly on "protocols and standards".
- NoteTodo: provide a clear articulation of the difference between "protocols" and "standards".
TSC Working Group Updates
Scope
clarification and disambiguation.This section will eventually be much shorter.During the formation period, the text under this heading serves to guide the discussion on especially the mission, scope and deliverables. Once sufficient concensus has been reached, these discussions will be moved to an appropriate location and the concensus formulations kept here
What do we mean by 'standards'?
The term 'standard' is used in a variety of contexts. Even within the scope of the CA2SIG a variety of things are denoted with the term 'standard'. These include:
- technical Technical standards like those of the W3C
- accounting Accounting standards, including:
- Greenhouse Gas Protocol
- the standards those used by the UNFCCC (e.g. the CDM project standard)
- voluntary standards like the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), the Gold Standard Social Carbon
- Environmental performance standards like those of the IFC
What will the working group deliver and who will use it?
There are other bodies the create the types of standards mentioned above. This working group will be more concerned with how such standards themselves and compliance to these standards are encoded and captured in a distrubuted ledger an how such representations can be used.
Use cases
What is standardised?
Entities
Activities and events
Agency
Counterfactuals
What is the relationship between standards, authority and freedom in the context of the work of the CA2SIG?
How will we translate standards into software?
Most generic articulation of what a standard is.
Protobuf examples
How to Get Involved
- Please add your name to the active members list below.
- Please comment on and expand the text - at the moment the essential task is the clarification of the scope. The headings under "Scope clarification and disambiguation." are deliberitely posed in the form of questions. Please venture an answer , elaborate or contradict the existing answer or pose a even more difficult question
Meetings
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Meeting Agendas
Meeting Notes
Communication Channels
These are the mechanisms that this working group uses to communicate.
Mailing List
Chat Channel
Links to Ongoing Work
Links to Completed Work
Links to External Resources
Active Members
Name | Company |
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Christiaan Pauw | Nova Institute |