World Resource Institute issued a new report proposing a simple descriptive framework to complement existing renewable electricity and GHG reporting standards. This framework provides organizations with transparent, supplemental language to describe the impact that they are having in terms of energy and GHG reductions. It highlights the environmental benefits of purchases, as well as the attribution of corporate influence in making positive impacts happen.

• Describing Purchaser Impact in U.S. Voluntary Renewable Energy Markets (PDF)(23 pp, 709 K)