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This pages outline item 1 of the scope of the Hyperledger CA2SIG Standards Working Group.

Objectives

Climate change related standards can classified according to what they aim to achieve. In the context of the work of the CA2SIG this can be one of two:

1. Climate change mitigation

2. Adaptation to climate change

What is standardised in climate mitigation standards?

Standards differ in the way in which account is given of:

  • Physical effects accounted for (and time of relevance for those effects)
  • Entities

  • Activities and events

  • Agency: There is a difference between doing something directly and causing other parties to do something. A regulation or policy by a government is typically something that causes other parties to do things. It is important to differentiate how each framework or standard views agency so as to not double count. 

  • Counterfactuals

Physical effects accounted for

Standards may differ in the physical effect or the physical agents that it accounts for, e.g. which greenhouse gas agents are included in the standard and how they are standardised.

Entities 

There is clearly a difference between accounting for the greenhouse gas emissions of a whole country or whole organisation and accounting for the emissions of a single process. Protocol, standards and methods operate at different levels of complexity and aggregatation and involves different levels of nesting. This is a potential cause of double counting because 


  • [Tom comment: ISO produces many types of standards-related products, however it is mainly known as an SDO that creates auditable  standards for conformity assessment. Such standards are typically relatively short (e.g. 20 pages). In contrast, the GHG Corporate Protocol (2001), which was followed by a suite of GHGPs, started as a "how to guidebook" that are typically relatively long (e.g. 100+ pages). In 2005, the GHGP adopted ISO-style language and requirements content to complement the guidance content. In addition to differentiating protocols and standards (there are several types of standards), CDM Methodologies  and IPCC Guidelines  are additional variations of "standards"]
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