ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability operates the carbonn Cities Climate Registry (cCCR), a global online platform for local governments to report climate and energy commitments, GHG emissions inventories and mitigation and adaptation actions and action plans. As of May 2012, 164 local governments from 21 countries report their climate information at cCCR, including 319 commitments up to the year 2050. ICLEI is an association of over 1200 local governments in 80 countries jointly working towards sustainability.

Local government commitments focus on many areas which impact sustainability, but the cCCR provides a registry for commitments on climate (reduction of CO2 emissions, CO2e emissions, or Carbon Intensity) or energy (increasing use of renewable energy or increasing energy efficiency) both for operations of municipal administrations (government GHG emissions) or for activities of the community that they serve (community GHG emissions). Thus, the cCCR enables local governments to report a total of 10 different types of commitments. When fulfilled, commitments will enable local governments to shift their cities into low-carbon and energy-safe resilient communities.

For more info, visit the following links:

www.iclei.org/local2012
www.iclei.org/climate
www.mexicocitypact.org
www.citiesclimateregistry.org

In 2010, more than 138 Mayors adopted the Global Cities Covenant on Climate the Mexico City Pact, which aims to ensure transparency, accountability and comparability of local climate action and introducing the concept of measurable, reportable, verifiable climate action by encouraging signatories to report commitments, together with GHG inventories and relevant actions to the carbonn Cities Climate Registry (cCCR). Cities that announce commitments are invited to report their baseline and latest available GHG inventory in order to monitor their progress in meeting their targets. GHG inventory reporting is based on the International Local Government GHG Emissions Analysis Protocol (IEAP), which has evolved into Global Protocol for Community Scale GHG Emissions (GPC). cCCR already compiles 270 GHG inventories that represent total community GHG emissions of around 1.2 GtCO2e/yr. Capacity building in use of GHG accounting and reporting tools, such as HEAT+ will also help cities to monitor progress.