The Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) is pleased to note the appointment of Priya Barua, CEBA’s senior director of market and policy innovation, to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s (GHGP) Scope 2 Technical Working Group.

As part of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s ongoing revisions process, her participation in the Scope 2 Working Group will provide a crucial energy customer perspective, highlighting objectives and challenges faced by clean energy buyers seeking to decarbonize their energy procurement across global markets.

“Clean energy markets have evolved significantly since the last update to the Scope 2 standard, and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s work to update and improve this standard is critical to help ensure companies can make credible and meaningful progress towards their climate goals,” Barua said. “I am excited to work with the Scope 2 Technical Working Group members and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Secretariat to support this important work.”

Barua is an experienced and respected leader for clean energy policy, emissions accounting, and corporate procurement strategies. She will contribute her expertise to help guide this critical review and update of the protocol’s global greenhouse gas accounting standards, particularly around Scope 2 reporting.

CEBA is committed to supporting and advancing customer-driven clean energy procurement and development to drive systemic grid decarbonization. CEBA supports and welcomes improvements to modernize emissions accounting, reporting, and recognition systems to better capture the impact of voluntary action.

CEBA recognizes that to expand the market, increase the numbers of corporate and institutional customers buying clean energy, and maximize the decarbonization benefits for everyone, we need an emissions accounting framework that has the flexibility to accommodate various approaches globally. This will enable companies to make impactful decisions that accelerate the clean energy transition during this critical decade.

CEBA last year submitted recommendations to the organizations overseeing the protocol — World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development — that include adding locational and temporal data hierarchy to accounting provisions in the protocol as well as reporting systems for technologies such as storage. CEBA urged the protocol to maintain market-based accounting while enabling options for energy customers and encouraging ambition in further decarbonization of energy systems.