21 Mar 2023
Until recently, corporates looking to decarbonize could purchase biomethane certificates and report these as part of their Scope 1 emissions accounting. This led to investment in new biomethane infrastructure, which the world critically needs to cut methane emissions from organic wastes and generate green gas, biofertilizers and bioCO2, but this will no longer be possible under the proposed new guidance. The new GHG Protocol guidance requires physical delivery of biomethane to corporate consumers via dedicated pipelines or road transport, rather than via existing gas grids, which is logistically and commercially unviable. Therefore, we urge the GHG Protocol to rethink current guidance so that the biomethane market can reach it's full potential in contributing to the energy transition.
21 Mar 2023
“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you, and climate change is one of those exceptions.”
Al Gore
Nobel Peace Prize winner