World Resources Institute, C40 Cities Climate
Leadership Group and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) have
partnered to create a GHG Protocol standard for cities that known as Global
Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC).
The GPC provides a robust framework for
accounting and reporting city-wide greenhouse gas emissions. It seeks to:
- Help cities develop a comprehensive and robust greenhouse gas inventory in order to support climate action planning
- Help cities establish a base year emissions inventory, set reduction targets, and track their performance
- Ensure consistent and transparent measurement and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions between cities, following internationally recognized greenhouse gas accounting and reporting principles
- Enable city inventories to be aggregated at subnational and national levels
- Demonstrate the important role that cities play in tackling climate change
