Evolving E-ledgers: Conceptual Advances and Real-World Applications
October 10, 2024
Online

October 10, 2024
Online
On October 10, 2024, the E-ledgers Institute successfully hosted its third conference, Evolving E-ledgers: Conceptual Advances and Real-World Applications. The virtual event brought together over 250 industry practitioners and Institute staff to advance the field of rigorous carbon accounting, exploring important topics like downstream emissions reporting, the accounting basis of CBAM, applications in the healthcare, fossil fuel, and service industries, and the development of a public-use E-liability standard.
The first session, moderated by E-ledgers Institute Board Member Alicia Seiger of Stanford University, focused on recent updates to the E-ledgers framework.
Professor Robert Kaplan of Harvard University, co-founder and senior fellow at the E-ledgers Institute, introduced the Disclosing Downstream Emissions paper (co-authored with Professor Karthik Ramanna).
Professor Karthik Ramanna of Oxford University, Co-founder and Principal Investigator at the E-ledgers Institute, introduced a new paper, co-authored with Professor Maria T. Zuber (MIT), Michael Wang (Argonne National Laboratory), and Niels Angel (Catena-X), on the link between E-liability and Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs). Karthik demonstrated the workings of the recursive principle to continually improve the accuracy of E-liability carbon accounting (paper forthcoming).
The second session highlighted real-world applications of the E-liability method, featuring three representatives from organizations that have piloted the E-liability approach: Chevron, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, and IDG Security.
In the final session, Karthik and Lauren Holloway, the Institute’s Chief of Staff, shared progress on the Institute’s work to develop a formal Proto-Standard for carbon accounting and auditing.
The Proto Standard is offered as a free global public good, encouraging widespread adoption and adaptation without requiring citation.