Following are summaries and reference links for emerging activities related to carbon accounting and protocols.

Geologic Sequestration Accounting Protocols 

• Draft 1605(b) Technical Guidelines - Draft technical guidelines for the revised 1605(b) program have been released.
• Draft Guiding Regulatory Framework for Carbon Dioxide Geosequestration  [PDF-96KB] - Developed by a working group under the Australian Ministerial Council for Minerals and Petroleum Resources, October, 2004.
• Corporate Response to these guidelines from Origin Energy, a major Australian utility  [PDF-98KB] January 2005.
• On the Integration of Carbon Capture and Storage into the International Climate Regime  [PDF-382KB] - by Sven Bode and Martina Jung. HWWA Discussion paper #303, November, 2004.
• GEO-SEQ Best Practices Manual Geologic Carbon Dioxide Sequestration: Site Evaluation to Implementation - September, 2004 [PDF-594KB]
• Draft Accounting Rules For Carbon Capture And Storage Technology  [PDF-116KB] - by Chisato Yoshigahara , Kenshi Itaoka, and Makoto Akai. Presented at the GHGT-7 conference, September, 2004.
• Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Issues -Accounting and Baselines under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) [PDF-451KB] - Discusses key accounting issues to be addressed before sequestration activities can be included in the portfolio of climate change mitigation activities. Published by the International Energy Agency, May 2004.

Agriculture and Forestry Accounting Protocols

• Draft 1605(b) Technical Guidelines - Draft technical guidelines for the revised 1605(b) program have been released.
• GHG Protocol Initiative - In an effort led by World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) the GHG Protocol Initiative includes a broad international coalition of businesses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government and inter-governmental organizations.  The project-specific guidelines will not be released until 2005, however draft guidelines were released in 2003.
• Winrock International - Published a bibliography of carbon sequestration and biomass evaluation.
• Australia Guidelines for Accounting in Forests -    Project-level carbon accounting in forests - Predicting and measuring carbon stocks in forest stands, 2002. Field Measurement Procedures for Carbon Accounting, February 2002.