List of Resources Below 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 and 4, and Articles and 12 of the Kyoto Protocol List of Resources EMEP/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 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 List of Resources The 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 crosssector 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 peerreviewed 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 List of Resources Handbook 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, nationallevel 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 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 List of Resources 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 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 communitywide 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 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 List of Resources 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 Community of Practice City Climate Planner Certificate Program Women in Urban Development