Emissions Responsibility Accounting for the net zero transition: developing innovative business and policy responses to operationalise implications

净零转型的排放责任核算：制定创新的业务和政策应对措施以实现可操作的影响

• 批准号: 2892609
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Imperial College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2892609
• 关键词: Emissions; Responsibility; Accounting; net; zero

Tackling climate change requires urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as the total amount of CO2 emissions needs to be kept to within a global carbon budget. To understand the scale of the task at hand, and measure progress, emissions must first be accounted for, and reported on accordingly. Emissions accounting is often defined by country borders. However, this approach does not address the full contribution of a country's economic activity to GHG emissions and might therefore reduce the ambition of climate action across their entire sphere of influence.Several approaches exist to measure emissions. Territorial emissions only include emissions of activities within a country's border. A production emissions approach measures emissions from all industries owned by a country's companies or related activities, anywhere in the world. Consumption accounting provides yet a different perspective identifying emissions that relate to national consumption. Finally, emissions accounting in the corporate world is often based on a division into three scopes: Scope 1 measures direct emissions from facilities owned by a corporation; Scope 2 measures indirect emissions from purchased energy; and Scope 3 measures any other indirect emissions in the production, distribution, and use of products. There is increasing interest into new accounting frameworks for adequately operationalising the global carbon budget concept, particuarly those more fully recognizing the entire influence sphere of actors, be it countries or businesses. This interdisciplinary PhD project will investigate the quantitative and policy aspects of estimating and applying alternative emission accounting frameworks in climate and environmental policy in the context of a net zero transition, with the aim to build new frameworks that allow to connect knowledge about the global carbon budget in line with the Paris Agreement.Starting from a quantitative assessment of available data, the project will investigate alternative emissions accounting approaches and assess their relative merits, limitations and use options. Subsequently, there will be an opportunity to take the project into a further analytical direction, building scientific tools for emissions accounting and working towards establishing a new set of accounting standards. Alternatively, there is also an opportunity to explore the concept of emissions responsibility more deeply in the context of policy making, how equity and fairness questions can be applied to businesses and by investigating how they can be integrated in policy and have influence.What is measured and monitored has a profound connection with stakeholders' priorities for influence and action, including how equity and fairness of targets across countries is beingFor more information on how to apply to us please visit: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/education perceived. Therefore, the project will include stakeholder interaction with the UK Committee on Climate Change, the UK Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy and other stakeholders

应对气候变化需要紧急采取行动以减少温室气体排放，因为需要将二氧化碳排放量的总量保持在全球碳预算之内。要了解手头任务的规模并衡量进度，必须首先考虑排放量并相应地报告。排放会计通常由国家边界定义。但是，这种方法并不能解决一个国家的经济活动对温室气体排放的全部贡献，因此可能会降低气候行动在其整个影响范围内的野心。存在衡量排放的几个范围方法。领土排放仅包括一个国家边界内的活动的排放。生产排放方法衡量了世界上任何地方（世界上任何地方）所有行业的排放。消费会计提供了不同的观点，即确定与国家消费有关的排放。最后，企业界的排放会计通常是基于一个范围的划分：范围1衡量公司拥有的设施的直接排放；范围2衡量购买能源的间接排放；范围3衡量产品生产，分布和使用中的任何其他间接排放。新的会计框架的兴趣越来越大，以充分地实现全球碳预算概念，特别是那些更充分地认识到参与者的整个影响力领域的人，无论是国家还是企业。该跨学科博士学位项目将调查在净零过渡的背景下，在气候和环境政策中估算和应用替代排放会计框架的定量和政策方面，旨在建立新的框架，允许将有关全球碳预算知识联系起来根据巴黎协议。从对可用数据的定量评估开始，该项目将调查替代的排放会计方法，并评估其相对优点，限制和使用方案。随后，将有机会将该项目带入进一步的分析方向，建立科学工具，以进行排放会计，并致力于建立一套新的会计标准。另外，也有机会在政策制定的背景下更深入地探索排放责任的概念，如何将公平和公平问题应用于企业，并通过调查如何将它们整合到政策中并具有影响力。受监控与利益相关者的影响力和行动的优先事项有着密切的联系，包括如何获得有关如何向我们申请的更多信息，请访问：https：//www.imperial.ac.ac.uk/grantham。 /所感知的教育。因此，该项目将包括与英国气候变化委员会，英国商业能源与工业战略部以及其他利益相关者的互动