A new opinion piece in the Daily Tribune argues that the Philippines needs a single official source of emission factors to make corporate carbon reporting credible and comparable. The author proposes a Philippine Emissions Factor Registry led by the Climate Change Commission, with sector agencies maintaining factors for electricity, fuels, transport, cement, and waste. The registry would start small, using existing data from the Department of Energy and other agencies, and follow IPCC guidance while developing local factors over time. The article points out that companies currently use different databases and assumptions, leading to inconsistent emissions numbers for the same activity. A unified registry would help investors compare companies fairly, support carbon markets, and strengthen national greenhouse gas inventories. The author argues that consistency matters more than perfection and that version 1.0 can improve as more data becomes available.
