Our work with the Anthropogenic Impact Accounting group has reached several milestones that we’re pleased to announce:
The project became an official Lab at LF Decentralized Trust (LFDT) in July 2026. The Lab is named Accountable Impact Commons, which reflects its long-term goals.
The GitHub repositories now live under a GitHub organization of the same name.
In recognition of these steps, the Lab now sports a restrained visual identity and a bright logo, displayed in the header of this post.
In September a domain was registered and a new website for the Lab went online: https://accountableimpactcommons.org/
LFDT is the premier open source foundation for decentralized technology. For the team the keyword is trust. The provenance of our software matters, and so does the provenance of the data our ontologies describe.
The AIA Ontology Suite had its genesis under the aegis of LFDT. It is the product of collaboration by members of the Standards Working Group of the LFDT Climate Action and Accounting SIG. Evolving from a Working Group into a Lab signals our intent to keep building. That is also why we chose the name “Accountable Impact Commons”. We view these ontology resources as belonging to a global and open community.
The website has a lot of useful content. There are blog posts with updates, information about the ontology resources, and an About page with credits and contact information.
For a full report and what comes next, please see “AIA Becomes a Lab Under LF Decentralized Trust” on the new site.