After a successful nine-month pilot test from May 2013 to January 2014, the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC) has been revised and is now available for public comment until August 18th. The authors particularly welcome review by city officials, practitioners, and technical experts in the fields of energy, transportation, waste management, agriculture and forestry.
The GPC represents a joint effort between World Resources Institute (WRI), C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), and ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) with additional collaboration by the World Bank, UNEP, and UN-HABITAT. As a global reporting standard, the GPC enables cities and communities to consistently measure and report GHG emissions and develop climate action plans and low-emission urban development strategies.
Throughout the piloting process, cities provided valuable input and contributed to making the GPC more user-friendly and technically robust. The following are some new contents in the new draft:
The GPC pilot version 1.0 was released in May 2012 and was pilot tested with 35 cities worldwide. Besides the pilot test, the authors convened three meetings to seek comments and inputs of the GPC advisory committee, a group consisting of experts from 29 organizations around the world. As part of the inclusive stakeholder process, the authors also convened a broader group of city representatives, technical experts, and other stakeholders from different parts of the world in Beijing, Sao Paulo, London, Dar es Salaam, New Delhi, and Jakarta to seek their inputs and share good practices.
The authors would like to thank all the pilot city representatives, the GPC advisory committee members and stakeholders for their valuable contributions to this project.
To comment on the new GPC draft 2.0, please use the GPC Review Template and/or provide track-changes in the Word version of the GPC 2.0 draft for public comment. Please submit comments by email to gpc@wri.org by August 18th. For more information, see visit our website.
See also: ICLEI News Release