Roadmap to Success: Measuring and Reporting Climate Action

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Roadmap to Success Measuring and Reporting
Climate Action
Solid Waste Energy Use
Transportation
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• Vision gives you a destination,
• strategy gets you there

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Best in Class GHG measurement and monitoring
program

• Where do we need to go?
• How do we get there?
• Monitor and verify progress
• Helps you report to many programs
• Voluntary, Mandatory
• Locally, Nationally
• Tell the story that local action works

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Leadership Commitment
Milestone 1 Inventory Emissions
Milestone 2Establish Target
Milestone 3 Develop Climate Action Plan
Milestone 5Monitor/Evaluate Progress
Milestone 4 Implement Climate Action Plan
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Greenhouse Gas Inventory
The Importance of Quantification

• An assessment of energy use
• associated emissions
• Assess baseline performance
• Compare alternative scenarios
• Illustrate opportunities
• Set attainable goals
• Prioritize projects
• Demonstrate progress toward emission reduction
  goals
• Obtain quantification of emissions profile

You cant effectively reduce what you dont
measure.
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Local Government Protocol Project

• Details best-in-class practices for conducting an
  inventory of GHG emissions from local government
  operations
• Comprehensive and allows for standardized
  inventorying and reporting practices
• Local Government Operations Protocol (LGOP)
  completed
• Community Protocol being developed now

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Performance tracking
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Measure your effort ahead
Baseline
Target
2030
2005
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Know your Wedge
Federal CAFÉ standards, smart-grid, etc.
State RPS, Energy Programs, etc.
Local Action Building retrofits,
green fleets, LEED, etc.
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Local Climate Action Plan
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Reporting Climate Action
Reporting
Managing
GHG Management System
Voluntary programs
Mandatory Programs
Local Outreach
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ARRA Reporting

• Metrics
• Cost savings
• Jobs
• Air pollution
• Energy saved

GHG Management System
ARRA report to DOE
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Commitment to Excellence
Commitment To Excellence

• Get out of the gate to win
• Follow LG Protocol for your inventory
• Choose GHG management System
• Quantify and track measures
• Implement flexible reporting
• Report to ICLEI
• Report to TCR
• Report to DOE
• Report to EPA
• Etc

ICLEI Provides Tools to help you build a best in
class GHG management program
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ICLEI Tools
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Climate and Energy Plan Warehouse

• Support your Local Action
• Upload your climate plan
• 1000 climate plans
• Targets, baseline inventories
• Actions
• Verified vs. Voluntary
• Support the Movement
• Local action is the Key
• Show the cumulative impact and potential of
  climate action
• Tie to ARRA reporting

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ICLEI ARRA Enhanced Services
ICLEI ARRA Enhanced Services

• EECS preparation submission
• Specific Strategy Development
• Purchasing policies
• Resource Conservation Plans
• Measures quantification (in works)

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Changing the world, one city at a time..
Jim Yienger Technical Director ICLEI USA,
Inc. jim.yienger_at_iclei.org