About the Global Heat Reduction Initiative

Global Heat Reduction (GHR) is a purpose-driven company equipping organizations in the public and private sectors with a more complete understanding of their climate impact, and helping decision-makers prioritize actions that yield the fastest, most effective reduction in atmospheric heat and greatest climate ROI.

Today’s climate strategies rely heavily on carbon accounting systems that measure greenhouse gas emissions in CO2-equivalent terms over 100 years. While essential, this approach undervalues or overlooks the impacts of pollutants that drive near-term atmospheric warming. As a result, organizations often lack the information needed to identify the most effective interventions over the next few critical decades.

GHR addresses this gap through Total Climate Accounting™, a scientifically robust framework integrating traditional carbon measurement with the quantification of heat outcomes. At the core is the Total Climate Footprint based on CO2e-PLUS, which combines conventional carbon footprinting (CO2e 100-yrs.) with a Heatprint™, which measures the real-world warming impact of emissions across time horizons and pollutants. The Heatprint captures the full range of short-lived climate “super pollutants” –including methane, refrigerants, and air pollutants such as black carbon and ozone –that play an outsized role in near-term warming.

By bringing these elements together, GHR enables companies, governments, and other institutions to move beyond simple emissions tracking toward outcome-based climate decision-making. Our work helps identify where investments will deliver the greatest reduction in atmospheric heat, supporting more effective strategies, reporting, and resource allocation.

Building on IPCC science and climate accounting innovation incubated at SCS Global Services, GHR now operates independently, combining technical rigor with practical application across industries such as food and agriculture, energy, technology, and manufacturing.

As climate risks become increasingly immediate and economically material, GHR provides the insight needed to act –shifting the focus from measuring emissions alone to understanding and reducing real-world heat impact.