The Global Heat Reduction Initiative

What is The Global Heat Reduction Initiative ?

Did you know that more than half of all global warming isn’t caused by CO₂, but by climate super pollutants like methane, black carbon, nitrous oxide, and HFCs? Just by tackling these, we can avoid 0.6°C of warming by 2050, while cutting CO₂ would save only 0.1°C. If done at scale, we’ll start seeing results within the next ten years.

Now, based on a groundbreaking, peer-reviewed scientific approach, the Global Heat Reduction Initiative is offering organizations the tools to deliver on that ambition. 

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Accelerated impact through full climate accounting

Our approach complements conventional accounting, based on 100-year periods (GWP-100), with assessments of the atmospheric heat impacts of any emission, over any timespan, including super pollutants in the near term. It’s how we help our partners gain unparalleled awareness of their full climate footprints, mitigate what they can, and offset what they can’t (yet).  

We call it CO₂e+. Here’s what that means:

• Everything that is included in conventional, GWP-100-based climate accounting
• Climate super pollutants and all other drivers of climate change
• Quantified and verified heat impacts over any time frame
• Quantified and verified co-benefits and tradeoffs in terms of the U.N. SDGs

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