Decarbonization and emission reduction

To find out how to reduce your company emissions you need to identify your emission hotspots and where you can set reduction targets to achieve effective improvements.

Mitigation goals are commitments to limit GHG emissions to a specified quantity by a specified date.

The GHG Protocol provides guidance for designing mitigation goals and a standardized approach for assessing and reporting progress toward goal achievement. This standard is intended to help users accomplish the following:

• Design a mitigation goal, which entails understanding the advantages and disadvantages of various types of mitigation goals and informing the choice of mitigation strategies used for achieving the goal.

• Define accounting methods for tracking progress while maintaining consistency with applicable inventory methods.

• Calculate allowable emissions in the target year(s) to understand future emissions levels associated with meeting the goal.

• Assess and report progress toward meeting a goal, which entails evaluating what additional actions are needed to achieve the goal.

• Publicly reporting goal progress and assessment methods, and meeting stakeholder demands for transparency.

• Assess and report whether a goal has been achieved.