Insights & Research

Dear SBTi team, Thank you for acknowledging the limitations of the consultation survey and for offering an opportunity to provide additional input via email. We appreciate the openness to continued engagement and would like to submit the following feedback on three specific items that we believe are important to consider as part of the CNZS development process. These points were not fully accommodated by the structure of the survey questions, but we see them as directly relev

The Emissions First Partnership, a coalition of 32 organizations, including buyers, developers and NGOs responsible for more than 50GW of combined clean energy procured globally since 2008, respectfully submits the following complaint pertaining to Standard Development and Revision Procedures 4.2.1 and 4.5.1. 4.2.1 states: “During the development or revision of a standard, care shall be taken to ensure as balanced a stakeholder group as possible has been engaged for TWG parti

Basis for Complaint: Non-Transparent Decision-Making The decision not to advance the Impact Accounting method for public comment in parallel with the hourly matching methods for Inventory Accounting represents a non-transparent and unexplained deviation from previously established public expectations and the recommendations of the Technical Working Group. Publicly Set Expectations: The GHG Protocol's public blog post from June 2025, "Scope 2 Technical Working Group Progress U

The Emissions First Partnership’s coalition of 32 organizations, including buyers, developers and NGOs responsible for more than 50GW of combined clean energy procured globally since 2008, respectfully submits the following complaint under the GHG Protocol Complaints and Concerns Procedure 2.2.1 i (“failure to conduct required public consultations”) related to the insufficient duration of the public consultations for the Scope 2 and Electricity Sector Consequential Methods (s

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) recently published its public consultation on consequential electricity sector emissions impacts, an important step toward providing guidance on marginal emissions. However, the proposal diverges significantly from the robust, comprehensive framework recommended by its own Technical Working Group (TWG). While we applaud the GHGP’s effort to advance consequential accounting, the proposed methodology captures only a fraction of the full pictur