The GHG Management Institute is the host of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) training programme for greenhouse gas inventory review experts for the technical review of greenhouse gas inventories of Parties included in Annex I to the Convention. This programme is being organized by the UNFCCC secretariat in response to decision [...]

We get this question quite often. Where is our office? Our headquarters’ address is in the Washington, D.C. area. Specifically, we are incorporated in the State of Maryland as a nonprofit organization with an address just outside of Washington, D.C. proper (literally, just a few hundred meters from the District border). For those of you [...]

Now that we have the Copenhagen Accord, which gives us some hope that eventually we will have a treaty that includes the United States and active engagement from developing countries, it seems like a good time to open our history books and look at some lessons from the Kyoto Protocol. Many consider the Kyoto Protocol a [...]

In the climate change policy world there is plenty of talk about capacity building, especially for developing countries — though occasionally for developed countries as well. Less frequently, however, is what is meant by “capacity building” specified. The concept comes from the broader field of international development. The United Nations Development Programme defines it as: Capacity [...]

From Environmental Finance The recent suspension of a leading CDM verification company has highlighted the need to ‘professionalise’ the auditors of greenhouse gas emissions, say Tim Stumhofer and Michael Gillenwater. For the full story, please see the December 2009/January 2010 print edition of Environmental Finance: http://www.environmental-finance.com/2009/0912dec/features.htm#nf3

Here at the Institute, we are consistently amazed at the number of people who blindly assume we deliver training in a standard classroom setting. Indeed one of the most common inquiries we receive is where and at what time we are offering classes. After more than two years of responding to such format questions, we [...]

As we close out this year, now is a good time for some refection before we charge into a new calendar. At the Institute, we have done just that, by releasing a report on our first two years of operation. In founding the GHG Management Institute, we were inspired by looking into both the future and [...]

It has taken this observer a few days (critically complemented by well overdue restful nights) to fairly assess the results of the Copenhagen fortnight. This delayed consideration is in part due to access, an issue I will raise first, not in order of importance, but due to the immediate impacts on my final days at [...]

On Saturday evening the Institute had the distinct pleasure to co-host an official COP15 side event with the Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSE) and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). The event, “Driving Low Carbon Investment,” drew a capacity crowd on the COP’s traditionally sleepy “changeover” day – a particularly impressive turnout given that the event [...]

Will carbon trading work? December 14, 2009 11:41 p.m. EST – From CNN.com (CNN) — Carbon trading — with its mix of free-market principles and government regulation — holds global appeal as a way for businesses to reduce emissions. But lack of a global market for carbon trade and questions over surveillance and accounting for pollution offsets [...]