CETESB publishes technical note on the methodologies to measure and report emissions of greenhouse gases in the State of São Paulo
In brief
The Environmental Agency of the State of São Paulo – CETESB published Technical Note No. 01/21 in April/2021 providing the applicable methodologies for the measurement and report of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) for the parties that are included in the São Paulo Environment Agreement.
More details
The Environmental Agreement was released by CETESB in November/2019 with 55 companies seeking combined efforts and engagement of the private and public sectors t to adopt measures of control involving the global climate change.
Between the actions established by the Agreement is the annual report to CETESB of the emissions of GHG and the adoption of a emission reduction targets regarding the period of 2020 and 2030.
In this scenario, CETESB prepared the Technical Note presenting methodologies to calculate the emissions and issuance of an inventory, both providing technical consistency and methodological unification to the parts, urging to a better development of the Environmental Agreement.
The Technical Note consists of four sections. The first addresses the main normative and regulatory references at the federal and state levels. The second section deals with climate change and market references, which includes green bonds, the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) indices, the corporate sustainability index of the capital market (ISE B3), and sectoral accreditations.
Section three includes the presentation of the calculation of GHG emissions and publication of inventories, tools and methodologies, which includes the guidelines of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ISO-14064-1, GHG Protocol, Global Protocol for Community – Scale GHG Emissions (GPC), methodologies and main references that will include organizational and operational limits, selection of calculation methodologies and data collection of GHG activities and emission factors, baseline year, calculation of emissions, appropriate inventory practices and reporting of emissions. Finally, the last section includes the final considerations containing a summary of the Technical Note.
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