Standards Check

Knowledge check

1. Under the GHG Protocol, an organisation choosing between equity share and operational control is deciding:
Which greenhouse gases must be included in its reported inventoryWhether its scope 2 should be reported market-based or location-basedIts organisational boundary: whose sites and emissions count as its ownWhich historical year serves as the base year against which all reduction progress is measured
2. Dual reporting of scope 2 means disclosing:
Both the location-based (grid average) and market-based (contract) figures togetherBoth this year's emissions and the base year's figure, restated using the current factor setBoth gross emissions and the net figure after offsets are subtractedBoth UK and overseas electricity consumption as separate line items
3. A 'green tariff' backed by REGOs changes:
The grid's physical carbon intensity at the buyer's connection pointThe market-based scope 2 figure, while the location-based figure is untouchedBoth scope 2 accounting methods simultaneously, since the certificates retire real renewable generationThe buyer's scope 1, by displacing gas heating with certified electricity
4. The current standard governing carbon-neutrality claims is:
PAS 2060, the British specification that most UK carbon-neutrality claims continue to be made against todayThe GHG Protocol's neutrality annex, updated alongside the Scope 2 GuidanceSBTi's corporate net-zero standard, which certifies carbon neutrality once validated targets have been metISO 14068-1, which requires demonstrated reductions before offsets can support the claim
5. Third-party verification to ISO 14064-3 gives a footprint:
An independent assurance opinion, at a stated level, that carries weight self-declaration doesn'tAutomatic compliance with the SECR, ESOS and Climate Change Agreement reporting obligations in one submissionA guarantee that the underlying emission factors will not change in future yearsExemption from disclosing methodology, since the verifier has checked it privately

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