Call for interest: Global Carbon Emissions Accounting Experts

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Carbon Measures – a global coalition of leading businesses committed to advancing a ledger-based carbon accounting framework – are seeking a select group of top experts to join a Technical Expert Panel (TEP) on Carbon Accounting.

The experts are solicited from a range of perspectives and geographies from academia, financial accounting, industry and civil society. Together, the expert panel will define the principles, scope and applications of a carbon emissions accounting system modelled on financial accounting principles.

The system would provide accurate, transparent, verifiable, and timely company-level and product-level data, ensuring every tonne of carbon emissions is counted only once and attributed correctly at each step of the value chain.

The panel will:

• Inventory existing approaches for carbon emissions accounting, along with strengths, challenges and opportunities to generate alignment;
• Develop guiding principles for a carbon emissions accounting framework that builds on positive attributes of existing carbon emissions accounting approaches, addresses the challenges to current practices and enables global alignment; guiding principles will also consider learnings from chemistry, financial accounting practices and product-level standard-setting successes;
• Apply the principles to develop proposals to underpin adoption by standard-setters and policymakers;
• Develop detailed product-level implementation roadmaps to foster real-world adoption;
• Recommend ways to improve data quality, methods, and governance for global alignment and build consensus among stakeholders;
• Determine a roadmap for implementation, including proposed standard-setters for adoption and the conditions that need to be in place to support successful adoption at scale, such as implementing organisations, attestation standards, enforcement requirements, education and oversight; and
• Publish and endorse reports and peer-reviewed publications.

For experts

The Technical Expert Panel will comprise up to 20 highly qualified representatives with expertise in carbon emissions accounting, business governance, chemistry and geosciences, financial accounting and assurance, policy design and development or related work.

Panellists will be selected by the Secretariat, in consultation with the Co-Chairs of the TEP (“TEP Co-Chairs”), with nominations and recommendations accepted from universities, private sector entities, governments, foundations, civil society organizations and individuals. Selection will prioritise subject matter expertise and will aim for geographic diversity whenever possible.

Panellists will represent themselves in an individual capacity, and this designation will follow the expert if/when associated institution(s) or employer(s) change.

At the outset, experts will be asked to make a two-year-long commitment to attending 1-2 monthly calls and undertaking 6-10 hours of independent document review per month. Public engagements may be offered to panellists as appropriate. These expectations may vary based on the initiative’s progress, but active and consistent participation will be expected from all panellists.

To nominate an expert to the panel, send a CV and covering note to climateopportunity@iccwbo.org. Nominations will be reviewed on a rolling basis until 9 January 2026.

Once reviewed, promising candidates will be invited to have a video call with the host organisations to discuss personal qualifications and goals in more detail.

For Advisory Group members

The panellists’ work will be supported by an Advisory Group of 25 members, comprising representatives of the private sector and non-profit organisations. Advisory Group members – represented by their CFOs, CSOs or other C-suite leaders, as appropriate – will be selected based on their willingness to act as ambassadors for the initiative, as well as progress the panel’s work by providing in-kind and/or financial support.

The Advisory Group will meet no less than four times a year, with calls with individual entities scheduled on an as-needed basis.

Organisations interested in joining the Advisory Group are welcome to share their motivations, related work and a brief overview of expected contributions.

Initial suggestions may include:

• Administrative secondments

• Research and knowledge partnerships

• Fundraising and/or direct donations

• External communications support

To submit an expression of interest for the Advisory Group, send a covering note to climateopportunity@iccwbo.org. Nominations will be reviewed on a rolling basis with an aim to finalise the Group’s composition in May 2026.

Further details

The panel will be co-chaired by Amy Brachio, CEO of Carbon Measures, and Karthik Ramanna, Professor of Business and Public Policy at the University of Oxford. S&P Global Insights will serve as the panel’s knowledge partner, providing research, data acquisition, expert analysis and independent thinking. The panel is expected to be fully formed in early 2026.

“This panel will bring together experts from around the world—representing the financial accounting, chemical engineering, business, and academic communities—to develop the principles and implementation pathways to make a global carbon accounting framework a reality,” said Amy Brachio, CEO of Carbon Measures.

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