What is 'Greenhouse Gas Protocol'?
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Answer: A. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol, developed by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, is the widely used international accounting tool to measure and manage greenhouse gas emissions.
Watch for: 'Protocol' makes students think of a treaty like the Kyoto Protocol.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Wrong because it is an accounting standard, not a UN financing scheme.
- C. Wrong because it is not an inter-governmental treaty with targets.
- D. Wrong because it is not a World Bank REDD+ initiative.
Source to check: Greenhouse Gas Protocol official website (ghgprotocol.org); World Resources Institute
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