Publications & Tools

This recently-released WRI working paper may also be a useful resource to inventory practitioners. ‘Exploring Linkages between National and Corporate/Facility Greenhouse Gas Inventories’ describes national and corporate/facility inventories and outlines the various roles they can play related to emissions measurement, management and policy-making. It discusses corporate/facility reporting programmes and compares national and corporate/facility inventory systems to highlight their differences. It also explores possible linkages between corporate/facility programmes and national inventory systems. These linkages include the use of source-level data from facilities to improve accuracy and/or provide validation to national emissions estimates as well as the use of existing institutional and technical capacities, likely associated with developing a national inventory, to support a corporate/facility reporting programme. These linkages could facilitate efforts to reduce emissions in countries with competing demands within a mitigation programme and with limited resources.