The High Price of Precision: A Proposed Clean Energy Rule Could Shake Up Corporate America's Sustainability Scores A proposed revision to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) could have far reaching implications for corporate sustainability scores and, by extension, investors' portfolios.
The GHG Protocol is a widely adopted set of guidelines used by nearly all major companies to track their carbon footprint.
The draft update would require companies to claim credit only for clean energy produced during the same hour and on the same grid as the fossil fuel generated electricity they're offsetting.