Greenhouse Gas Accounting, Modeling, and Visualization

 

We support our clients in making decisions through transparent and defensible data.

Greenhouse gas emission inventories are incredibly powerful if done right and serve as the foundation for community engagement, climate strategy, and policy.

They increase our understanding of climate change impacts and inform how to change current habits. Through modeling and visualizations we use them to help our clients and the public understand which levers will increase or decrease emissions.

 
 

Where we’ve worked

We’ve helped 16% of CDP’s 2020 A-List communities prepare their greenhouse gas emissions inventories, see the red stars and counties on the map! Click around the map or use the +/- buttons to zoom in and out to see where our clients are located.

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We are fully versed in the following protocols and tools:

    • Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC) and the Supplemental Guidance for Forests and Trees 

    • U.S. Community Protocol for Accounting and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Community Protocol)

    • Local Government Operations Protocol (LGOP)

    • Recycling and composting Emissions Protocol

    • 2006 & 2019 Refinement to the IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories

    • The Climate Registry’s General Reporting Protocol and the Electric Power Sector Protocol

    • World Resources Institute Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard

    • CDP-ICLEI Track

    • Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy

    • American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy: ACEEE

    • Net Zero Carbon Events

    • Science Based Targets (public sector and SBTi)

    • ICLEI’s ClearPath Tool

    • WRI/ICLEI Land Emissions and Removals Navigator (LEARN) & iTREE

    • ICLEI Contribution Analysis

    • Sustainability Indicators Management & Analysis Platform (SIMAP)

    • City Inventory Reporting and Information System (CIRIS)

    • LEED for Cities

    • EPA State Inventory Tool (SIT)

    • EPA Local Greenhouse Gas Inventory Tool

    • Sustainability Tracking Assessment & Rating System (STARS)

    • Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3)

    • Airport Carbon Emissions Reporting Tool (ACERT)

    • NREL ComStock and ResStock

    • NREL Building Energy Optimization Tool (BEopt)

    • eQUEST

    • EPA’s ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager

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