The Carbon Bureaucracy Nobody Voted For

Most Americans have never heard of the International Organization for Standardization.

That is exactly how its architects prefer it. While Washington debates energy policy in public, a quieter project is underway in Geneva, one that could reshape how American companies produce energy and what it costs them to do it, without a single public vote being cast, a single hearing being held, or a single elected official being consulted.

Last September, the ISO announced a strategic partnership with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to "harmonize" global emissions accounting standards. The GHG Protocol was developed by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, two organizations funded by the full cast of progressive philanthropy, including Bloomberg Philanthropies, the MacArthur Foundation, and several European governments, to be the world's dominant framework for corporate carbon reporting.

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