Dive Brief:
- The Greenhouse Gas Protocol announced Tuesday that Boston Consulting Group Partner and Director of Climate and Sustainability Tim Mohin, a veteran in the global corporate sustainability community, will become the organization’s first chief executive officer.
- Mohin has spent more than two decades in corporate sustainability across a variety of roles, including serving as CEO of the Global Reporting Initiative — another target-setting organization. Mohin will move into his new post by June 1, according to an April 28 press release.
- GHG Protocol is in the process of updating its standards for how companies and organizations calculate their greenhouse gas emissions and said the appointment of a CEO comes at “a pivotal moment for emissions reporting.”
Dive Insight:
GHG Protocol is working on updating its carbon accounting standards, including changes to its scope 2 — or purchased electricity — emissions and scope 3 emissions. The organization is also in the process of working with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to harmonize global carbon accounting standards, which was part of the COP30 action plan last year. That harmonization is expected to continue through to the 2028 Global Stocktake. The stocktake is a United Nations-backed global assessment conducted in five-year intervals to measure the progress made toward achieving Paris Agreement goals.
The standard-setting organization said Mohin will be responsible for leading it through its next phase and will help boost carbon accounting practices, accelerate consolidation across frameworks and foster trust in global emissions disclosures.
GHG Protocol Steering Committee Chair Geraldine Matchett called Mohin “the right leader for this moment.”
“The scale of our work and the pace of change across the reporting landscape bring with them a growing need for a dedicated CEO role,” Matchett said in the release. “This reflects a natural step in GHG Protocol’s institutional maturity and will enable the organization to meet rising expectations while sustaining the integrity and independence of its standards.”
Mohin has been a director and partner at BCG since 2023, helping companies incorporate sustainability into their corporate strategies. Prior to BCG, he was CEO of ESG Advisor LLC, an executive vice president and chief sustainability officer for ESG software company Persefoni and was CEO of GRI from 2017-2020. Mohin has also served as a corporate sustainability executive at Advanced Micro Devices, Apple and Intel.
Prior to his work in corporate sustainability, Mohin also served as an Environmental Protection Agency section chief and on the staff of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Mohin noted that the GHG Protocol underpins a host of standards on corporate climate commitments, disclosures frameworks, net-zero targets and carbon markets. As such, he called being CEO of the organization “the most important climate infrastructure job in the world.”
“As the role of emissions data continues to expand, the organization is entering a new phase of maturity — strengthening its governance, institutional capacity and global engagement,” Mohin said in the release. “This is a once-in-a-generation restructuring of how the world accounts for carbon. I am excited to help shape that.”
In addition to undertaking harmonization on carbon accounting and changes to its scope 2 accounting standard — which has its detractors — GHG Protocol recently released its first carbon accounting standard for land sector related emissions and removals.
