The purpose of this report is to provide the Offset Quality Initiative’s (OQI) comprehensive recommendations to policymakers regarding the integration of greenhouse gas (GHG) offsets (“offsets”) into climate change mitigation policy. OQI was founded in November 2007 as a collaborative, consensus-based coalition to provide leadership on offset policy and best practices. OQI brings together the collective expertise of its six nonprofit member organizations: The Climate Trust, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, California Climate Action Registry, Greenhouse Gas Management Institute, and The Climate Group.

This document presents the joint comments of the Environmental Resources Trust, California Climate Action Registry, the Greenhouse Gas Experts Network, and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change (“commenting organizations”) in response to the Center for Resource Solutions’ “Draft Green-e Greenhouse Gas Protocol for Renewable Energy.” (“Draft Green-e Product Standard for RE”) The commenting organizations would like to commend the Center for Resource Solutions for its leadership in the renewable energy industry, for its commitment to consumer protection, and for its development of the high integrity Green-e Program for tracking the usage of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs).

Comments submitted by the World Resources Institute on the draft Green-e GHG Protocol for Renewable Energy by the Center for Resource Solutions (Green-e).