Grounded in climate science? – Assessing the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Land Sector and Removals Standard

The newly released Greenhouse Gas Protocol Land Sector and Removals Standard (LSRS) establishes a critical framework for companies to account for land-based emissions and carbon removals, addressing long-standing gaps in corporate climate disclosure. However, the standard’s potential to drive genuine decarbonisation and accurately account for emissions and removals is compromised by two structural ambiguities.