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Counting Up Cities' Energy Savings and Climate Commitments I Brendan Guy's Blog I S... Page 4 of 4 This new uniform measurement system also underpins the global Compact of Mayors. Launched at the September Climate Summit in New York, the compact is an agreement by mayors to reduce their cities' emissions and vulnerability to climate change, and to track progress in a consistent way. The Compact, the world's largest cooperative effort among cities to reduce emissions, has adopted the new measurement protocol as part of its core goals - -to raise the ambition of reduction targets and improve the quality of greenhouse gas reporting- -city leaders announced in Lima. Using this method, cities can report emissions through the Compact's designated central database, the carbonn Climate Registry (cCR), as well as other repositories of data. Bristol just became the 500th ciity to irepoirt to the clliiimate iregiistiry. Already some cities have been using the new measurement system as a guide towards more effective carbon reduction efforts. After conducting inventories of its greenhouse gases for 2005 and 2012 as part of the new protocol's pilot program, Rio de Janeiro used the results to initiate a series of projects in low - carbon transport, waste management, forestry, and energy efficiency. At its II_iiima launch last month, UN envoy Bloomberg called the new standardized measurement system "a critical component of the Compact." He added, "It will help cities see what climate strategies are working, better target their resources, and hold themselves accountable for results." "Cities have shown that green growth is not utopia," Rio IMayor IPaes Ihas saiid. Documenting the strides they've made will add to the mounting evidence that this is no utopian vision. Shaira� : _fin �A..��i1�ke ��2;�0..� © Natural Resources Defense Council http: / /switchboard.nrdc.org /blogs /bguy/ counting cities climate commitments.html ?utm s... 1/15/2015