About the 2010 Survey
The 2010 survey was intended as a policy neutral approach to obtaining information from the combined international community and experts. Our focus was on acquiring valuable and much needed data while not promoting a policy or specific protocols, standards or programs. All data was collected using a blind, anonymously recorded IT infrastructure to assure the most detailed, statistically accurate response possible.
We hope you find this report valuable as we continue to work to tell the evolving story of the newly emerging greenhouse gas accounting and management profession. Key findings of the report include:
- Climate change remains an emerging field where practitioners rise quickly through the ranks.
- GHG training gets high marks overall, but serious reservations are noted.
- U.S. facilities are ill-prepared for regulatory emissions reporting, while American and international companies cite confidence in climate risk disclosure.
- Climate change practitioners support U.S. carbon pricing, yet are concerned about the level of public understanding on climate issues.
- The carbon management software market is still in an embryonic stage.
- Practitioners are concerned with peer competency; auditors are divided over the quality of work.
- Carbon markets are not up to snuff; auditing needs enhanced governance.
- GHG personnel are failing to meet current market requirements; competency concerns loom with the expansion of climate programs.
- Climate employers and job seekers cite challenges in demonstrating and assessing carbon competency; they see professional certification as a fix.
To view the survey results, please click here.
