{"id":19433,"date":"2026-02-16T15:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/?p=19433"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:09:12","slug":"letter-from-ghg-protocol-steering-committee-chair-about-mandate-to-harmonise-carbon-accounting-with-iso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/letter-from-ghg-protocol-steering-committee-chair-about-mandate-to-harmonise-carbon-accounting-with-iso\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from GHG Protocol Steering Committee Chair about Mandate to Harmonise Carbon Accounting with ISO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 30 January 2026,<strong> GHG Protocol Steering Committee Chair Geraldine Matchett issued a letter framing 2026 as a turning point for carbon accounting <\/strong>(<strong>\u201cLetter\u201c<\/strong>).\u00a0Her message in the Letter is pragmatic: GHG emissions must fall faster and at greater scale, and that requires <strong>data that is accurate, consistent, credible, and comparable <\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 otherwise capital cannot flow efficiently and accountability remains weak. The Letter is available at this <a href=\"https:\/\/ghgprotocol.org\/blog\/delivering-cop30-action-agenda-mandate-harmonise-carbon-accounting-letter-ghg-protocol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Letter highlights the strain organizations face: <strong>evolving regulation, intensifying investor scrutiny, and stressed supply chains, all while the accounting landscape remains crowded with overlapping standards and metrics<\/strong>. This duplication raises costs of businesses and slows their action, thus posing the risk of further fragmentation persists. Matchett argues that a <strong>harmonized carbon accounting system<\/strong>\u00a0is not a technical nice-to-have but a prerequisite for decarbonization, because it creates <strong>clarity, trust, and investment readiness<\/strong>. The Letter emphasizes decarbonization as a value-chain challenge \u2013 <strong>Scope 3<\/strong> is where major transformation opportunities sit, and <strong>product-level carbon accounting<\/strong> is positioned as essential to scaling demand for low-carbon products through credible, comparable information.<\/p>\n<p>For 2026, the Letter points to tangible deliverables: continued development of updated <strong>Scope 2 Guidance<\/strong>\u00a0following the closure of a public consultation, advancement of the new <strong>Land Sector and Removals Standard (LSRS)<\/strong>, and a stronger focus on developing a <strong>joint product-level standard with ISO<\/strong>, with stakeholders invited to apply to join the Joint Working Group. The closing theme in the Letter is <strong>accentuation of collaboration<\/strong>: alignment should translate into real-world emissions reductions, not added friction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The GHG Protocol (Greenhouse Gas Protocol)<\/strong> is\u00a0the world&#8217;s&nbsp;most widely used, comprehensive global framework for measuring, managing, and reporting greenhouse gas emissions. <strong>Developed by\u00a0WBCSD, a mother association of Czech BCSD<\/strong>, and WRI. GHG Protocol enables businesses, cities, and governments to track emissions across operations and value chains, essential for climate action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 30 January 2026, GHG Protocol Steering Committee Chair Geraldine Matchett issued a letter framing 2026 as a turning point for carbon accounting &#8230; <a class=\"cz_readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/letter-from-ghg-protocol-steering-committee-chair-about-mandate-to-harmonise-carbon-accounting-with-iso\/\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span>\u010c\u00edst v\u00edce<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","iawp_total_views":0},"categories":[577],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19434,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19433\/revisions\/19434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}