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".  

• Todo: provide a clear articulation of the difference between "protocols" and "standards".

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

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:
  • Greenhouse Gas Protocol  
  • 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
• 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?

Find the most generic articulation of what a standard, method and transaction is and develop protobuffer examples of each

Namespaced merkle tree 

Protobuf examples

Meetings

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Meeting Agendas

Meeting Notes