The Greenhouse Gas Protocol sets the standard for greenhouse gas accounting. It divides the scope of a company’s emissions into three categories. Scope 1 and scope 2 are easy for most people to understand and relatively easy to measure. But scope 3 emissions can be more confusing. They are a challenge for the companies trying to inventory their own impacts […]

Climate science is complicated, and it only gets worse when you start trying to measure emissions and their impacts. But understanding the vocabulary can go a long way towards making sense of a confusing subject. As you move deeper into your studies of climate impacts, you’re likely to see the term “scope” used to classify greenhouse gas emissions from commercial […]