LIST OF RESOURCES Research and Technical Guidance Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories Developed by the World Resources Institute, C40 Cities Climate
Trang 1Below are a series of resources aimed to support you in developing a GHG emissions inventory Gathered from multiple organizations, these selections provide you with a basic set of literature that covers emissions inventories This list will be a running series, and suggestions and additions are welcome in the comment section below
LIST OF RESOURCES
Research and Technical Guidance
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
2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
The 2006 IPCC Guidelines provide guidance to assist countries in compiling complete, national inventories of greenhouse gases, covering energy, industrial processes and product use, agriculture, forestry and other land use, and waste sectors
Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
The revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines are still used by some countries at a national level and similar to provide guidance to assist countries in compiling complete, national inventories of greenhouse gases, covering energy, industrial processes, solvents and other product use, agriculture, land-use change and forestry, and waste sectors
Greenhouse Gas Data Management: Building Systems for Corporate/Facility-Level Reporting
Drawing on lessons learned from more than 10 jurisdictions – including Chile, China, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey, and the US – the report provides guidance on how to design, develop, and implement data management systems that support industry greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting programs
Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
The GPG2000 support the 1996 IPCC guidelines and help in the development of GHG inventories by assisting in quantifying uncertainties, subject to quality control and quality assurance, and efficient in the use of resources
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
Trang 2EMEP/EEA Emissions Inventory Guidebook
The EMEP/EEA air pollutant emission inventory guidebook (formerly called the EMEP CORINAIR emission inventory guidebook) provides guidance on estimating emissions from both anthropogenic and natural emission sources It is designed to facilitate reporting of emission inventories by countries to the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and the EU National Emission Ceilings Directive
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
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
WRI Corporate Standard
Provides guidance for companies and other organizations to estimate and report GHG emissions following international standards and best practices
WRI Project Protocol
Developed by the WRI, the project protocol provides guidance for estimating and reporting GHG emission reductions based on a policy-neutral methodology
WRI LULUCF Guidance for Project Accounting
Provides guidance to estimate and report GHG reductions from LULUCF project activities
Brazilian GHG Protocol Programme
Adapted from the WRI Corporate Standard, Brazil provides guidelines to estimate corporate GHG emissions, a tool to estimate emissions using in some cases national emission factors, guidelines to verify GHG emission inventories and guidelines to estimate scope 3 emissions
Emission Factor databases and data sources
Below are a selection of databases and data sources for emission factors Please note that these should not be applied ‘blindly’, and a subjective assessment of quality (and relevance/applicability to your city) should always be considered Locally-specific emission factors are usually preferred and considered highest quality, but default factors available via these sources can be used to verify local factors as well as plug gaps If in doubt, the IPCC
2006 Guidelines and the GPC should always be consulted for guidance on appropriate emission factors
GHG protocol
Trang 3The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) is the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions The GHG Protocol has a variety of sector-specific tools as well as a spreadsheet database of Emission Factors from all cross-sector tools, that support inventory compilation
IPCC EFDB
EFDB is meant to be a recognized library, where users can find emission factors and other parameters with background documentation or technical references that can be used for estimating greenhouse gas emissions and removals EFDB at present contains only the IPCC default data IPCC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, IPCC Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry, and 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories), and data from peer-reviewed papers and other publications including National Inventory Reports (NIRs)
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
Defra NAEI Factors Database
The UK government, through the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI), provides a database of emission factors used in the UK Emissions Inventory and emission factors designed for local inventories Key sources come from the IPCC Guidelines, EMEP/EEA Air Pollutant Emission Inventory Guidebook, and the USEPA AP-42
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
US EPA Clearinghouse for Inventories and Emissions Factors
Provides links to various emission factor resources available in the US
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
Trang 4Handbook Emission Factors for Road Transport
Developed on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agencies of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, provides emission factors for a variety of commonly used vehicle for a wide variety of traffic situations
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
UNFCCC Annex I Party National GHG Inventory Submissions
Annual inventory submissions consisting of the national inventory report (NIR) and common reporting format (CRF) of all Parties included in Annex I to the Convention Useful for country-specific emission factors, national-level data, or proxy data from comparative countries
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
Guidebooks & Tools
Rio de Janeiro Low-Carbon City Development Program
The Rio Low Carbon City Development Program (LCCDP) is a systems-approach to low carbon development, including a framework and set of comprehensive requirements to help the city to plan, implement, monitor, and account for low carbon investments and climate change mitigation actions across all sectors in the city over time Low-Carbon City Development Program Guidebook
Trang 5Developed 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
Guiding Principles for City Climate Action Planning
The Guiding Principles for City Climate Action Planning reviews typical steps in the city-level climate action planning process in light of a proposed set of globally applicable principles They are intended to be applied flexibly, together with more detailed ‘how to’ manuals, to help cities more effectively play their role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building climate resilience
ICLEI - ClearPath
Developed by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, ClearPath™ is an online software platform for completing greenhouse gas inventories, forecasts, climate action plans, and monitoring at the community-wide or government operations scale
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
Brazil GHG Protocol Program
Provides Brazil-specific corporate calculation tools intended to assist managers in the GHG inventory preparation process, including transport, aviation and scope 3 emissions
E-learning
Cities and Climate Change Leadership
The e-Learning course on Cities and Climate Change Leadership will serve as an introductory course providing an overview of basic concepts, policies, institutions and financial instruments for use by cities Its overall objective is
to encourage city leaders and decision makers to undertake climate actions suitable to local needs
Fundamentals of Climate Change
Trang 6This 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
Community of Practice
City Climate Planner Certificate Program
Women in Urban Development