Introduction to Guidelines on the Assessment and Disclosure of Organizational Contribution to the Avoided Emissions

Abstract

In recent years, the issue of climate change has become important, and discussion about net zero greenhouse gas emissions is in general. In this kind of situation, concept and methodology of avoided emissions of products is beginning to spread in industry sector. And, there is also an increasing number of case studies in which companies generally disclose the amount of avoided emissions from their overall organizational activities. In this background, the study group on evaluation methods for avoided emissions of The Institute of Life Cycle Assessment, Japan is studying the guidelines on the assessment and disclosure of organizational contribution to the avoided emissions which shows a method for evaluating the avoided emissions of the whole organization. This paper introduces the background of the review and the content of this guideline.