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Revolutionizing Carbon Accounting for American Manufacturing Competitiveness

by Jia-Shen Tsai

Current carbon reporting frameworks, namely Scope 3, often distort emissions data and disadvantage low-carbon manufacturers. This piece explains how the E-liability method offers a precise, auditable alternative, enabling companies to track and reduce emissions at the product level. The commentary argues that by aligning incentives with real decarbonization, E-liability empowers U.S. manufacturers to lead in clean tech and compete globally on emissions performance.

Niskanen Center

March 2025

MediaE-ledgers Method Policy and Regulation

How BMW Started Auditing Emissions Across Its Supply Chain

by Karthik Ramanna and Lauren Holloway

Many suppliers lack the capacity to calculate the emissions embedded in their products. To address this challenge, BMW Group applied the E-liability method to its iX kidney grille, working closely with key suppliers to enhance direct emissions measurement capabilities. With the help of the Catena-X initiative, BMW Group engaged suppliers of all sizes, helping smaller ones build accounting capacity while aligning larger ones with sectoral best practices. This article highlights how to equip suppliers for direct emissions measurement and underscores the importance of developing protocols to audit data at the source, ensuring accuracy from the outset.

Harvard Business Review

February 2025

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America’s Advantage in Clean Production Can Make Manufacturing Great Again

by Karthik Ramanna

At recent U.S. Senate confirmation hearings, policymakers debated how to reinvigorate domestic industry without triggering inflation or a trade war. Our co-founder, Professor Karthik Ramanna, explores an emerging solution to this: a dynamic emissions-based tariff system that accounts for actual product-level emissions. By using E-liability cradle-to-gate emissions accounting, tariffs can be fair, WTO-compliant, and innovation-driven.

Promarket

February 2025

PublicationPolicy and Regulation

How a New Carbon Accounting System Helps Reduce Emissions

This article discusses Chevron’s pilot of the E-ledgers framework to improve the accuracy and comparability of emissions data across its LNG operations. The piece highlights insights from our co-founder, Professor Robert Kaplan, and Chevron’s David Fallon on how product-level carbon accounting can enhance transparency, enable competition on emissions performance, and accelerate industrial decarbonization.

Business Think

December 2024

MediaCase Studies E-ledgers Method

Summary: Evolving E-ledgers: Conceptual Advances and Real-World Applications

by E-ledgers Institute

On October 10th, 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. It featured critical discussions on the latest developments in carbon accounting methodologies and their practical implications across various sectors.

Watch Session 1: An Update on the E-ledgers Framework

Watch Session 2: E-liability Pilot Update

Watch Session 3: E-liability Proto-Standard and Closing Remarks

E-ledgers Institute

October 2024

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IFC Report: Empowering Carbon Accounting: from Data to Action

by Alessandra Alfieri, Lauren Holloway, Ulf von Kalckreuth, Stephan Moll, Christian Schmieder, and Bruno Tissot

In February 2024, we supported an influential workshop on measurement, reporting, and dissemination of carbon content information at the Deutsche Bundesbank Regional Office in Hamburg, Germany. We are delighted to share the new BIS / IFC report summarizing key findings from this workshop, co-authored by Lauren Holloway (Chief of Staff). The report reinforces the need for collaboration among industries, statisticians, and policymakers to close data gaps and establish a robust global carbon accounting framework.

Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics, Bank for International Settlements

October 2024

PublicationE-ledgers Method Governance Policy and Regulation

E-ledgers Institute Welcomes Renowned Scientist Maria Zuber as New Board Chair

In September of 2024, the E-ledgers Institute was pleased to announce that Professor Maria T. Zuber, one of the United States’ most respected scientists, will be joining our Board of Directors as the new Chair, effective 1 October 2024. Zuber, the E. A. Griswold Professor at MIT and Presidential Advisor for Science and Technology Policy at MIT, brings deep expertise in climate science, technology, and policy, with leadership experience across NASA missions, MIT’s climate action plans, and U.S. presidential advisory councils.

E-ledgers Institute

September 2024

MediaAnnouncement

A Proto-Standard for Carbon Accounting and Auditing using the E-Liability Method

by Lauren Holloway, Karthik Ramanna, Max Israelit, Chloe Wenye Zhang, and Robert S. Kaplan

The E-ledgers Institute is excited to announce the release of a draft Proto-Standard for carbon accounting and auditing using the E-liability method. A number of different jurisdictions are currently attempting to develop standards for entities to calculate and report the GHG emissions embedded in their outputs, especially to have an assessment basis for planned carbon border levies. This document can serve as a complementary guide for such efforts, ensuring that standards developed in different geographies, industries, and sectors follow similar, interoperable, and conceptually sound accounting principles.

SSRN

September 2024

PublicationE-ledgers Method Governance

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