Graham Harris
There's a right way and a wrong way to set a GHG emissions reduction target.
A discussion on why your organization should select an "independent" target and not a "dependent" one.
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Graham Harris
- Dec 6, 2019
- 2 min
Changes in ISO 14064-2:2019 for GHG Reduction Projects. What's new?
For the last in our three-part series looking at the changes to the new version of ISO 14064, we’re looking at part 2 – GHG projects (you...
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Graham Harris
- Nov 19, 2019
- 2 min
What’s new in ISO 14064-1:2018? Updates to version 2 of the GHG standard for inventories.
The international standard for GHG inventories – ISO 14064-1 – was updated almost one year ago, in December 2018. With the end of the...
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Graham Harris
- Oct 18, 2019
- 2 min
When is zero not zero? Or, why you need to understand 'net zero'.
While working on a municipal GHG inventory recently, I got into an illuminating discussion with my client about the meaning of the term...
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Graham Harris
- Sep 4, 2019
- 2 min
What is the global carbon budget?
We are all familiar with the concept of a budget when it comes to our household finances or government spending. A nice, simple...
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Graham Harris
- Jul 30, 2019
- 2 min
Yes, even in Alberta, an electric car makes good environmental sense.
Everyone knows that Alberta has a “dirty” electricity grid. So, in our province, an electric car can’t actually make good environmental...
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Graham Harris
- Jul 3, 2019
- 2 min
What’s new in ISO 14064-3:2019? Updates to version 2 of the GHG validation & verification standard.
At the end of June, I had the pleasure of teaching the CSA’s ISO 14064-3 course on ‘Greenhouse Gas Validation and Verification” to a...
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Graham Harris
- Apr 16, 2019
- 2 min
What is a "Global Warming Potential"? Part 2 of 2.
In my last blog post, I introduced the concept of Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) and how they are used to equate releases of different...
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Graham Harris
- Mar 26, 2019
- 2 min
What is a "Global Warming Potential"? Part 1 of 2.
There are many different greenhouse gases (for a primer on what a greenhouse gas is, see my earlier post), some of which last longer in...
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Graham Harris
- Jan 28, 2019
- 3 min
What is a greenhouse gas? Or, why climate change and bread have more in common than you think.
I don’t like to make assumptions. While climate change has received a lot of media attention over the last couple of decades, I still...
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