An Open Source Exploration of a Semantic Structure for Climate Accounting

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An open, machine-readable ontology claims to make disparate climate-accounting standards interoperable by reducing them to core concepts: agent engages in an activity that impacts an environment. The current model is explicit — 15 classes and 15 axioms — published as an OWL schema with a protobuf implementation sketch and plans to embed in the ISO-aligned Basic Formal Ontology. Tools aim to act as a “Rosetta Stone” to translate standards, are usable now, and remain a work in progress.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:36The challenge
3. 7:12Description and discovery
4. 11:37Aggregation
5. 14:01Examples of standards in use
6. 14:34Different standards have different aims
7. 17:11Standards use different metrics
8. 23:15The essentials
9. 23:52Describing and understanding 'environment'
10. 26:32Describing and understanding 'activity'
11. 29:02Describing and understanding 'agent'
12. 32:53The full ontology to date
13. 37:11Example: IWA's concept of Modular Benefit Project