Accountable Impact Commons

AIA Becomes a Lab Under LF Decentralized Trust

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The Anthropogenic Impact Accounting Ontology Suite is now an official Lab at LF Decentralized Trust, under the name Accountable Impact Commons.

About

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Accountable Impact Commons is a Lab at LF Decentralized Trust, part of the Linux Foundation. The Lab maintains the Anthropogenic Impact Accounting Ontology Suite, a semantic framework for representing anthropogenic impact accounting data in a machine-readable format.

The work is the product of collaboration by members of the Standards Working Group of the LFDT Climate Action and Accounting SIG, and became a Lab in July 2026. The Lab is listed on the LFDT Labs site.

Ontologies

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The Anthropogenic Impact Accounting Ontology Suite provides a comprehensive semantic framework for representing anthropogenic impact accounting data in a machine-readable format. The suite currently consists of four specialised ontologies, each published at a permanent W3ID address that resolves to its documentation and machine-readable files.

Ontology	W3ID	Source
Anthropogenic Impact Accounting Ontology	w3id.org/aiao	GitHub
Claim Ontology	w3id.org/claimont	GitHub
Impact Ontology	w3id.org/impactont	GitHub
Information Communication Ontology	w3id.org/infocomm	GitHub

Impact Ontology provides the foundational vocabulary for modelling impact: an activity, the environment it affects, and the change that connects them.