Fixing Carbon Accounting with Emissions Liability Management

Alicia Seiger is a lecturer at Stanford Law and the managing director of Stanford’s Sustainable Finance Initiative. And Marc Roston is the founder of investment advisory firm MNR Capital and a senior research scholar at Stanford University’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance. In this episode, Alicia and Marc offer their perspective on the problems with the current method of corporate carbon counting, known as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. They also break down a new carbon accounting methodology they’ve developed called Emissions Liability Management, or ELM.

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Related Links

*Carbon Accounting and Emissions Liability Management:

https://sfi.stanford.edu/carbon-accounting-and-emissions-liability-management

*Settling Climate Accounts: Navigating the Road to Net Zero:

 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-83650-4

*Accounting for Climate Change:                                                                https://hbr.org/2021/11/accounting-for-climate-change