GHG Accounting, Markets, and Offsets

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GHG Accounting

EPRI Reports

• Adam Diamant and Arin Kaye, 2024. Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting for Electric Companies and Combined Utilities: A Compendium of Technical Briefing Papers and Frequently Asked Questions. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 3002029198
• Adam Diamant. (2024). Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting for Common Carrier Energy Infrastructure: Electricity Transmission and Distribution Systems and Natural Gas Pipelines EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 3002029197.
• Adam Diamant, 2023. How Large Electricity Customers Reduce their Indirect Scope 2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002028490
• Adam Diamant, 2023. Key Challenges in Electric Company Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002028297.
• Steve Rose, 2022. Developing Company Emissions Reduction Targets Based on Science, and Reflections on SBTi. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002024248
• Adam Diamant, 2022. Understanding Source-based and Load-based Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. #3002024037
• Adam Diamant, 2022. RECs and GHG Accounting EPRI, Palo Alto, CA.
• Adam Diamant, 2022. Scope 2 GHG Emissions Accounting for Electric Power Companies. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA.
• Adam Diamant, 2022. Overview of GHG Emissions Accounting. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA
• Adam Diamant and Laura Fischer, 2021. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002022395
• Adam Diamant and Laura Fischer, 2021. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting for Electric Companies: A Compendium of Technical Briefing Papers and Frequently Asked Questions, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002022366
• Adam Diamant, (2019). Methods to Account for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Embedded in Wholesale Power Purchases. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002015044
• Steve Rose and Morgan Scott, (2018). Grounding Decisions: A Scientific Foundation for Companies Considering Global Climate Scenarios and Greenhouse Gas Goals. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002014510

GHG Offsets

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EPRI research examines the role GHG emissions offsets can play in an electric company's carbon compliance strategy and how offsets offer a key contribution to meet global GHG emissions reduction targets quickly and at comparatively low cost. So-called project-based mechanisms use the power of markets to supply cost-efficient GHG emission reductions to entities that need to reduce emissions.

EPRI Reports

• Adam Diamant, 2022. Exploring the Role of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Offsets to Achieve Corporate Decarbonization Goals: A Compendium of Technical Briefing Papers and Frequently Asked Questions. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002025723
• Adam Diamant, 2013. Exploring the Interaction between California’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cap-and-Trade Program and Complementary Emissions Reduction Policies. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. #3002000298
• Adam Diamant, 2012. Overview of Subnational Programs to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation: (REDD) as Part of the Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. #1023811
• Adam Diamant, 2011. "Blue Sky" Approaches to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Initial Assessment of Potential New Types of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Offsets. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. #1023662
• Adam Diamant, 2011. Designing a Large-Scale Federal Greenhouse Gas Offsets Program in the United States: Policy Choices and Lessons Learned from the Clean Development Mechanism and Other Offsets Programs. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. #1023673
• Adam Diamant, 2011. Aggregation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Offsets: Benefits, Existing Methods, and Key Challenges. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. #1022180
• Adam Diamant, 2010. Emissions Offsets: The Key Role of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Offsets in a U.S. Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. #1019910
• Adam Diamant, 2009. Key Issues in Designing Mechanisms to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD). EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. #1017998
• Adam Diamant, 2007. A Comprehensive Overview of Project-Based Mechanisms to Offset Greenhouse Gas Emissions. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. #1014085
• Adam Diamant, 2007. Developing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Offsets by Reducing Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emissions in Agricultural Crop Production. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. #1015463
• Adam Diamant, 2006. Guidance for Electric Companies on the Use of Forest Carbon Sequestration Projects to Offset Greenhouse Gas Emissions. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. #1012576

Carbon Markets

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Publications and Presentations

• John Bistline, James Merrick, Victor Niemeyer (2020): "Estimating Power Sector Leakage Risks and Provincial Impacts of Canadian Carbon Pricing" (Environmental and Resource Economics)
• Bistline and Rose, 2018. Social Cost of Carbon Pricing of Power Sector CO₂: Accounting for Leakage and Other Social Implications from Subnational Policies, Environmental Research Letters 13 014027.
• Adam Diamant, 2012. Existing Barriers to Offsets Project & Market Development and Potential Approaches to Overcome Them
• Adam Diamant, 2010. Overview of the EPRI-MSU Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Greenhouse Gas Emissions Offsets Methodology
• Adam Diamant, 2010. EPRI GHG Emissions Offset Policy Dialogue Workshop #8: Offset Project Development and Approval Processes
• Adam Diamant, 2010. The Key Role of GHG Emissions Offsets in a U.S. CO₂ Cap-and-Trade Program

EPRI Reports

• Adam Diamant, 2022. 24/7 Carbon-free Energy: Matching Carbon-free Energy Procurement to Hourly Electric Load. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002025290