GHG Accounting, Markets, and Offsets
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GHG Accounting
Publications and Presentations
- Arin Kaye and Adam Diamant [translated to Spanish]. (2025) Utilizar energías renovables para alcanzar los objetivos corporativos de sostenibilidad y descarbonización. Cuadernos de Energía Nº 79.
EPRI Reports
- B. Neary, A. Diamant, A. Kaye. (2025) Landscape Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting and Reporting Frameworks. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. 3002033210
- Adam Diamant. (2025). Special Topics in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting for Electric Companies and Combined Utilities: A Compendium of Technical Briefing Papers and Frequently Asked Questions. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. 3002031993
- Adam Diamant, 2024. Carbon Pricing and Accounting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Wholesale Power Markets: An EPRI Technology Innovation Program Report. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 3002030179
- Adam Diamant, 2024. Carbon Pricing and Emissions Accounting in Wholesale Power Markets. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 3002031162
- 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
Back Pocket Insights
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting for Common Carrier Energy InfrastructureNovember 2024
- 24/7 Carbon-Free EnergyNovember 2024
- Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting for Electric Power CompaniesOctober 2023
- Using Renewable Energy to Reduce Corporate Scope 2 Greenhouse Gas EmissionsSeptember 2022
- Scope 2 GHG Emissions Accounting for Electric Power CompaniesJuly 2022
- Overview of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting for Electric Power CompaniesJune 2021
GHG Offsets
Back to topEPRI 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
Back Pocket Insights
- The Role of GHG Emission Offsets in Achieving Corporate Decarbonization ObjectivesApril 2025
- Technical Considerations and Requirements for Greenhouse Gas Emissions OffsetsNovember 2023
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Offsets: Programs, Protocols and ProjectsNovember 2023
Carbon Markets
Back to topPublications 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
- John Bistline, Anahi Molar-Cruz, Geoff Blanford, and Adam Diamant. 2024. Value of Voluntary Carbon Markets in Energy Systems Decarbonization: Regional Economic, Environmental, and Technological Impacts. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 3002031155
- Adam Diamant, 2022. 24/7 Carbon-free Energy: Matching Carbon-free Energy Procurement to Hourly Electric Load. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002025290
