DOE Sends Greenhouse Gas Registry Recommendations to White House
The proposed recommendations are outlined in a letter to the President from all four cabinet officers. The new recommendations follow the President's comprehensive climate change policy, released earlier this year, which requested recommendations for improvements to the current voluntary emissions reduction registration program operated under section 1605(b) of the 1992 Energy Policy Act.
The recommendations highlight the need to create standardized, widely accepted, transparent accounting methods, support independent verification of registry reports, and provide credits for a broad range of actions. Improving the registry and providing transferable credits for reductions would help motivate firms to undertake cost-effective voluntary reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.