Accounting for Carbon : Monitoring, Reporting and Verifying Emissions in the Climate Economy

Cambridge University Press

Accounting for CarbonMonitoring, Reporting and Verifying Emissions in the Climate Economy\nAuthor(s): Valentin Bellassen, Nicolas Stephan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107098480, 978-1107098480\nSynopsis\nThe ability to accurately monitor, record, report and verify greenhouse gas emissions is the cornerstone of any effective policy to mitigate climate change. Accounting for Carbon provides the first authoritative overview of the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of emissions from the industrial site, project and company level to the regional and national level. It describes the MRV procedures in place in more than fifteen of the most important policy frameworks - such as emissions trading systems in Europe, Australia, California and China, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - and compares them along key criteria such as scope, cost, uncertainty and flexi.