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Organizational Boundaries Defined by the Climate Registry
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Within The Climate Registry, there are organizational boundaries that define requirements for the accounting and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. They specifically define which emissions an entity is tracking and reporting. A number of companies throughout North America are voluntarily providing this information on an ongoing basis in an effort to reduce the potential for global warming.
By definition, organizational boundaries determine an entitys operation and whether it is owned or controlled by the reporting company. The reporting can be based on either the equity share or control consolidation approach.
The equity share approach for defining organizational boundaries is the emissions accounting method in which an entity reports its greenhouse gas emissions per each operation based on its share of economic interest. The percentage would reflect the extent of rights, or ownership, an entity has based on its profit and loss share of the operation.
The control approach can be used to define organizational boundaries. An entity reports all of its greenhouse gas emissions from all operations under its control. Ownership does not come into this equation.
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.
Under the greenhouse gas emissions registry, full organizational boundaries reporting is required for administrative buildings; revenue and non-revenue services operated by an entity; leased or owned stations and facilities operated by the entity; services provided by an entity under contract to another company; vanpools; and paratransit or other privately operated services contracted to the entity.
It has been known for a long time that greenhouse gases leads to global warming. Several environmentally damaging gases are found in refrigeration and cooling systems, and known villains include hydrochlorofluorocarbons, chlorofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and 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.
In the Climate Registrys inventory management plan, facilities need to indicate whether they are reporting based on either the control approach with equity share using operational control criteria; control approach with equity share using financial control; control approach based on operational control; or control approach based using financial control criteria. The inventory reporting document also includes a facilities and association emissions section in which a master list of all the buildings under an entitys organizational boundaries must be listed, along with their addresses, percentage of ownership or control, types of emissions and type of equipment or source. Because of the complexity of emissions tracking and reporting, many facilities equipped with refrigeration and air-conditioning (RAC) systems or heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are using refrigerant management programs to automatically track and report the information.
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