GHG Assessment Boundary

Definition

The GHG Assessment Boundary encompasses all primary effects and significant secondary effects associated with the GHG project.

Where the GHG project involves more than one project activity, the primary and significant secondary effects from all project activities are included in the GHG assessment boundary. The GHG assessment boundary is used to identify the GHG Emissions Sources and sinks that must be examined to quantify a project’s GHG reductions. It is not a physical or legal “project boundary.”

Primary and significant secondary effects are considered within the GHG assessment boundary, irrespective of whether they occur near the project, or at GHG sources or sinks owned or controlled by the project participants. Under the GHG Project Protocol, it is not necessary to define a project boundary based on a GHG project’s physical dimensions or according to what is owned or controlled.