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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 the "protocols and standards" that will enable consistent climate accounting MRV is often used to convey not only the accounting, but more broadly measurement, reporting and verification.
- [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"]
TSC Working Group Updates
Scope
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
Develop and populate a taxonomy of available accounting standards in a way relevant to the mission of the CA2SIG
Develop a consistent way to capture existing certifications as a transaction in any of the Hyperledger blockchain frameworks
Implement a proof-of-concept chain from aggregating, reporting and possibly trading certified outcomes.
Develop and populate a taxonomy of available methodologies in a way relevant to the mission of the CA2SIG
Implement a proof-of-concept transactional chain containing transaction processors and data structures and identifiers
Develop and populate a taxonomy of available certification processes
Implement a proof-of-concept transactional chain for verification / certification
Develop one vertically intergrated use case
Clarification:
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 standards like those of the W3C
Accounting standards, including:
the standards used by the UNFCCC (e.g. the CDM project standard)
voluntary standards like the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), the Gold Standard Social Carbon
Standard for entity level accounting within various scopes
Standards for local/regional/national inventories
Environmental performance standards like those of the IFC
Standards related to products
Standards for accounting for policy impacts
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
Personal climate footprinting
Product/ Service footprinting
Entity accounting (scope 1, 2 and 3)
Regional accounting
Policy impact assessments
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?
The CA2SIG will not act as an authority that compels entitie to engage in specific actions.
The standards to be generated by this working group will enable agents to communicate clearly about the implications of their actions. This will enables others to have a clear understanding of the state of affairs regading the activities and states covered by the standards.
How will we translate standards into software?
Find the most generic articulation of what a standard, method and transaction is and develop protobuffer examples of each
Namespaced merkle tree
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
Taxonomy of protocols and standards
Glossary and definitions
Meetings
All Hyperledger meetings are run covered by the following Antitrust Policy.
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 |
Alex Howard | Nova Institute |
Tom Baumann | Climate Chain Coalition |
Martin Wainstein | Yale Openlab |
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