Resources

WRI Mitigation Goal Standard

The GHG Protocol Mitigation Goal Standard provides guidance for designing national and subnational mitigation goals and a standardized approach for assessing and reporting progress toward goal achievement.

Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories

Developed by the World Resources Institute, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, the GPC is a method for inventory-taking created to improve the quality of inventories and ensure that inventories are comparable.

Fundamentals of Climate Change

This course addresses the basics of Climate Change including: the greenhouse effect, and how it impacts the earth’s climate; current and projected impacts of client change on ecological, biological and socioeconomic systems; international negotiations and agreements addressing the climate change problem; international negotiations and agreements addressing the climate change problem; mitigation and adaptation approaches and financing climate change related development actions.

Defra Conversion Factors for Company Reporting

The UK government has produced a web based tool containing emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas reporting. These conversion factors help companies convert their activities, such as fuel consumption, car mileage or waste generated, into the equivalent GHG emissions. The conversion factors are updated annually at the end of May. These factors are UK-specific but can be used by other countries with appropriate assumptions. Overseas electricity factors are available.

The Compact of Mayors Online Training

The Compact of Mayors Online Training Course is designed for mayors, city sustainability officers, environmental policy advisors and city climate planning professionals. This self-paced e-learning course provides an overview of the tools, resources and compliance requirements of the Compact of Mayors, a global coalition of mayors and city leaders committed to sustainable local climate action.

Greenhouse Gas Inventory Training

This online training, available on Education @USGBC, is for professionals working on emissions inventory, and will help you address the data challenges you will face, from collecting and analyzing large amounts of data from different sources to performing complex calculations.

Emissionfactors.com

EmissionFactors.com taps into the most powerful environmental database in the world, powered by Ecometrica. It contains 26,000 Factors with 48,000 assumptions, covering 248 countries.

Low-Carbon City Development Program Guidebook

Developed by the World Bank and DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability to provide guidance to cities and urban practitioners to designing and implementing an LCCDP that complies with the LCCDP Assessment Protocol. The main content of the Guidebook is presented in four sections that correspond to the stages of LCCDP development: Initiation, Planning, Execution, and Assessment/ Evaluation.

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The Climate Registry

The Climate Registry (TCR) is a non-profit organization governed by U.S. states and Canadian provinces and territories. TCR designs and operates voluntary and compliance GHG reporting programs globally, and assists organizations in measuring, reporting and verifying (MRV) the carbon in their operations in order to manage and reduce it. To achieve this mission and to promote transparency, TCR provides its reporting protocols and curated default emission factor database to the public free of charge.

Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry

Provides guidance to estimate and reporting carbon stock changes and GHG emissions from LULUCF activities under Article 3, paragraphs 3 and 4, and Articles 6 and 12 of the Kyoto Protocol.

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FAOStat

Statistics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Contains emissions datasets for Agriculture and Land Use sectors plus other socioeconomic datasets, at national, regional and international level.

WRI Policy and Action Standard

The GHG Protocol Policy and Action Standard provides a standardized approach for estimating and reporting the change in GHG emissions and removals resulting from policies and actions.

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Biennial Update Reports submitted to the UNFCCC by non-Annex I countries

BURs are reports to be submitted by non-Annex I Parties, containing updates of national Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventories, including a national inventory report and information on mitigation actions, needs and support received. Such reports provide updates on actions undertaken by a Party to implement the Convention, including the status of its GHG emissions and removals by sinks, as well as on the actions to reduce emissions or enhance sinks. BURs should be submitted every 2 years. Useful for country-specific emission factors, national-level data, or proxy data from comparative countries.

GHG inventory software for non-Annex I parties

All non-Annex I Parties are required to submit a national inventory of anthropogenic emissions by sources, and removals by sinks, of all greenhouse gases (GHGs) as part of their national communications. The secretariat developed a web-based application for use by non-Annex I Parties in estimating and reporting their GHG emissions by sources and removals by sinks. Cities may find this a useful tool.

IPCC Waste model

Excel based model accompanying the IPCC 2006 Guidelines, for calculating solid waste emissions using the First Order Decay (FOD) method.

Climate Action for Urban Sustainability

CURB (Climate Action for Urban Sustainability) is a scenario planning tool that aims to help cities prioritize different carbon abatement actions and investments based on cost, feasibility, and impact on energy use and GHG emissions. CURB Version 1.0 has been developed in coordination with AECOM and C40 and is currently being rolled out in more than a dozen cities around the world

WRI Greenhouse Gas Accounting Tool for Chinese Cities

Developed by the WRI together with the Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) provides a tool for Chinese cities to estimate and report city GHG emissions and is compatible with various reporting formats such as the GPC, the provincial inventory format, etc.