Event Details
Speakers
- Miguel
BrandãoProfessor of Environmental Engineering, Riga Technical University - Charles
CanhamForest Ecologist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies - Jiaxin
ChenMitigation and Adaptation Research Scientist, Ontario Forest Research Institute - Kate
DooleySenior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne - Heather
KeithPrincipal Research Fellow, Griffith University - Tim
SearchingerSenior Reseach Scholar, Princeton University
Moderators
- Danny
CullenwardSenior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
Virtual Event
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Forest Carbon Accounting in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol
Greenhouse Gas Protocol Materials
- Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Feedback opportunities (comments due February 1, 2027)
- <a href="https://ghgprotocol.org/sites/default/files/2026-06/Forest-Carbon-Accounting-Request-for-Information.pdf” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Forest Carbon Accounting Request for information (June 30, 2026)
- Independent Standards Board, Summary of ISB deliberations (June 30, 2026)
- Managed Land Proxy “Plus” proposal (May 7, 2025)
- Managed Land Proxy “Plus” explanatory memo (May 30, 2025)
- Managed Land Proxy “Plus” response memo (June 13, 2025)
- Activity-based accounting proposal (April 25, 2025)
- Activity-based accounting explanatory memo (June 2025)
- Activity-based accounting response memo (June 2025)
Additional Resources
- Emily Pontecorvo, Leading Climate Standards Group Fraught With Secrecy and Bias, Whistleblowers Say, Heatmap News (Apr. 21, 2026)
- Danny Cullenward, Governing the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy (April 22, 2026)
- Andy Stone, From Corporate Standard to Climate Policy: The Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Energy Policy Now podcast, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy (May 5, 2026)
- Danny Cullenward, Independent Standards Board resignation letter (June 8, 2026)
- Olivia Raimonde, Dispute Over Counting Forest Carbon Roils Global Standard-Setter, Bloomberg (August 13, 2026)
- Luke Barratt, Timber industry’s influence risks derailing global carbon calculations, scientists warn, Source Material (August 13, 2026)
- Michael Grunwald, The Latest Corporate Climate Ruse, The New York Times (Sept. 17, 2026)
- Kate Aronoff, Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?, The New Republic (Sept. 28, 2026)
Danny Cullenward
Danny Cullenward is a Shleifer Senior Fellow at the Kleinman Center. He is an economist and lawyer focused on the scientific integrity of climate policy.
Miguel Brandão
Professor of Environmental Engineering
Miguel Brandão is a Professor of Environmental Engineering at Riga Technical University. His research focuses on consequential life cycle assessment and carbon accounting for products and value chains, including wood products and bioenergy.
Charles Canham
Charles Canham is a forest ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, where he studies the dynamics of forest ecosystems and how they respond to a wide range of human impacts.
Jiaxin Chen
Mitigation and Adaptation Research Scientist
Jiaxin Chen is a Mitigation and Adaptation Research Scientist at the Ontario Forest Research Institute. He is an expert on forest carbon accounting and wood product life-cycle analysis.
Kate Dooley
Kate Dooley is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where she focuses on the intersection of carbon accounting, forest governance, and climate policy.
Heather Keith
Heather Keith is a Principal Research Fellow at the Climate Action Beacon at Griffith University. She is a forest ecologist with expertise in forest carbon accounting, including field-based measurements.
Tim Searchinger
Tim Searchinger is a Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. His research focuses on the challenge of supplying food and fiber to meet growing human demands while reducing the environmental consequences of agriculture and forestry.
