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.
Todo: provide a clear articulation of the difference between "protocols" and "standards"
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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 availible 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 availible methodologies in a way relevant to the mission of the CA2SIG
Implement a proof -of
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:
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
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?
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
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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
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