Climate Registry Defines Organizational Boundaries
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Organizational boundaries define requirements for accounting and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions. These boundaries are contained within the Climate Registry, and specifically define the emissions that an entity tracks and reports. In the United States, companies are providing this information to help in the reduction of global warming.
Organizational boundaries define an entity's operation and also specify whether it is controlled or owned by the company reporting. Reporting can be further based on an equity share or a consolidated control approach.
When it comes to defining organizational boundaries, an equity share of production is an accounting method involving a report for each operation based upon its share of the economic interests. A percentage would then reflect the extent of the ownership, or rights, and is based on the profit and loss share.
Organizational boundaries can be defined using the control approach. This approach determines an accounting method where an entity will report 100% of its GHG emissions, irregardless of ownership.
The Climate Registry is an important institution that aims to distribute information concerning greenhouse gas emissions. This nonprofit and nongovernmental organization has developed important standards used throughout North America to calculate and report emissions in a unified fashion. More than 330 corporations from all industry sectors, nonprofit groups and government entities are Registry members.
Organizational boundaries must be reported in full under the greenhouse gas emissions registry. Reports are required for revenue and nonrevenue services, administrative buildings, leased or owned stations and facilities, services provided under contract to another company, privately operated services, van pools and paratransit.
Greenhouse gases are of significant concern because they lead to global warming. Among these environmentally damaging gases are hydrochlorofluorocarbons, chlorofluorocarbons, hydrochlorofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons, such as those found in refrigeration and cooling systems, carbon dioxide, methane, chlorine, bromine, nitrous oxide, methyl bromide, methyl chloroform, sulfur hexafluoride, hydroxyl, halons, carbon tetrachloride, fluorine, and the fluorinated gases hydrofluorinated ethers and nitrogen trifluoride.
An inventory management plan has been established within the Climate Registry, which requires facilities to indicate the methods they use for reporting. There are four different determinants -- the control approach with equity share using operational control criteria, control approach with equity share using financial control, control approach based on operational control, and control approach based on financial control. Facilities must also indicate a master list of the buildings within their organizational boundaries, including an address, the ownership percentage, and the types equipment and emissions produced. Many facilities are turning to refrigerant management programs to track and report this information, with regard to their refrigeration and air-conditioning systems or heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.
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