Joint Industry Letter: Aligning the GHG Protocol with Global Markets via the AMI Framework
Read the joint industry letter here and the press release here.
Recognizing LCA and life cycle impacts is necessary to ensure consistency with widespread best practices.
To the Members of the Actions & Market Instruments (AMI) Working Group:
The undersigned entities are global economic operators responsible for the production, trading, transport, and consumption of renewable gaseous fuels and their derivatives. This letter was organized by the Let Green Gas Count Campaign as a follow-on to previous communications regarding the urgent need to reflect purchases of renewable gaseous fuels within the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP), and conveys priorities of the renewable gaseous fuels industry in response to the Actions & Market Instruments (AMI) White Paper.
The renewable gaseous fuels industry appreciates the direction of the GHGP in developing a framework that will support contractual purchases, however we remain concerned that outstanding uncertainties within the AMI White Paper could lead to the development of an unworkable standard. In completing Phase 1 of the AMI process, GHGP has an opportunity to align treatment of renewable gaseous fuels with long-standing best practices that are common across existing regulatory and voluntary market policies. With this in mind, we urge GHGP to:
- Uphold Recognition of Contractual Purchases and Clarify Chain-of-Custody Treatment
- Set Achievable Quality Criteria that Include Existing Market Practices
- Design an Impact Statement that Enables Reporting of Upstream Benefits and Disbenefits
Interoperability with Existing Regulatory and Voluntary Markets is the Goal of LGGC
We urge GHGP to complete this work in a way that reflects the investments companies are already making - and the progress the world urgently needs. We look forward to continued engagement with the AMI Working Group and GHGP to this end.
Download the joint industry letter and the press release below.
