Ghg Accounting And Reporting Standard For Cities And Communities

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The greenhouse gas protocol has developed standard called GHG protocol for cities, it is a GHG accounting and reporting standard for cities and communities. We all know that 70% of energy-related GHG emissions happen in the cities, this makes them one of the highest emitting sources, while it also presents a huge opportunity in tackling the issue of climate change. As a carbon reporting consultant, we have developed carbon footprint report for the cities and communities in the past. For a city or a community in order to reduce its emissions to explore the opportunities of the reduction, it should first identify and measure what is the carbon footprint of itself? As we all know that you cannot reduce what you cannot measure. Therefore a role of a Carbon footprint consultant becomes even more important. We have the expertise to help our clients to develop greenhouse gas inventory or carbon footprint report and in turn benefit from suggestions that can reduce the emissions.

GHG protocols, Global protocol for communities scale greenhouse gas emission inventories provides cities with tools required to estimate their ...
... emissions and also to develop effective strategies to reduce emissions, set a practical and ambitious target to reduce this emission and also to track their progress on the target that they had set. The GHG protocol for cities was not developed by GHG Protocol alone, it was a partnership with World Resources Institute, C40 Climate Leadership Group, and Local Government for Sustainability (ICLEI). The GHG protocol for cities provides a framework for estimating and reporting the greenhouse gas emissions across the city and as a Carbon Footprint Consultant we suggest that all cities and communities must use the standard when preparing their carbon footprint report.

These guidelines also provide a methodology to set a base year emission inventory so that using this baseline emission targets could be set and can be tracked in the future. This guideline consistent and transparent measurement for reporting protocols for the Green House Gas. It also guides how this carbon footprint or GHG inventories can be aggregated at the sub-national or national level for reporting to global bodies such as UNFCCC. Being a Carbon Footprint Consultant we are supporting several companies in developing their carbon footprint report in accordance with GHG protocol and other globally accepted standards such as ISO 14064. These guidelines were developed based on a pilot test of the guideline in the year 2013. This guideline also went through public comments period in 2012 and then in 2014.

We believe as a Carbon Footprint Consultant that this is most act guidelines to be followed by cities and communities to develop their carbon footprint report for GHG inventory. In case you need support of a carbon footprint consultant, then, get in touch.

Agile Advisors launched its operations in 2016 and has since rapidly grown globally. We have offices in UAE, Bahrain and India. Our team brings in a plethora of expertise in sustainability cutting across different sectors.