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CDP States and Regions 2021 Reporting Guidance

  • Appendix B – Climate actions
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Appendix B – Climate actions

1. Agriculture sector (6 possible actions)

  • Improve capacity of farmers and rural organizations (e.g. educating farmers on innovative and cost-effective measures, providing financial support, developing farm level carbon footprint)
  • Improve grassland and cropland management (e.g. improve nutrient management, implement rotational or prescribed grazing methods)
  • Reduce methane emissions from manure(e.g. install dairy digesters)
  • Reduce methane emissions from livestock digestive systems (e.g. feed management to improve productivity)
  • Improve soil health/soil carbon sequestration capacity
  • Promote other sustainable farming practices
  • Other, please specify

2. Buildings & Lighting sector (18 possible actions)

  • Improve heating and cooling efficiency (e.g. audits, insulation, HVAC maintenance, white roofs, etc.)
  • Increase awareness/engage public on energy efficiency/clean energy programs
  • Install biomass heating
  • Install clean cook stoves
  • Install energy efficient lighting systems (e.g. LED)
  • Install geothermal heating
  • Install more efficient luminaires in outdoor lighting (e.g. LED)
  • Install smart energy meters/sub-meters
  • Install solar heating/hot water
  • Promote and strengthen building energy performance rating/certification/benchmarking
  • Promote energy efficient appliances
  • Set/strengthen appliance efficiency standards
  • Set/strengthen HVAC efficiency standards
  • Set/strengthen lighting efficiency standards
  • Switch from heating oil to natural gas
  • Commit to reaching net-zero operating emissions in public buildings
  • Establish a plan/roadmap for all new buildings to produce net-zero GHG emissions
  • Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment participants: reducing operating emissions of government-owned building portfolio
  • Other, please specify

3. Energy sector (22 possible actions)

  • Enable net metering
  • Expand/improve transmission to integrate renewables
  • Install natural gas power
  • Install biomass power
  • Install carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • Install combined heat and power (CHP) or trigen
  • Install energy storage system
  • Install hydropower
  • Install microgrids
  • Install nuclear power
  • Install smart grids
  • Install solar power (e.g. PV, CSP)
  • Install geothermal power
  • Install wind power (e.g. onshore, offshore)
  • Install ocean/tidal/wave power
  • Measure energy productivity (e.g. GDP per unit of energy)
  • Promote demand-side management programs
  • Reform utility revenue policies and rate structures
  • Phase out coal-fired/inefficient power stations
  • Set energy efficiency resource standards (EERS)
  • Set a target of 100% zero-carbon power (i.e. based on a large-scale switch to renewable energy)
  • Control methane leaks from oil & gas operations
  • Other, please specify

4. Finance & Economy sector (15 possible actions)

  • Adopt feed in tariff for renewables
  • Adopt reverse auction for renewables
  • Enable PACE (long term property tax based loans) financing
  • Establish GHG emissions trading program
  • Increase awareness/engage public on financing mechanisms and incentives for energy efficiency/clean energy
  • Invest in clean tech R&D
  • Issue green bonds
  • Promote on-bill financing
  • Provide green mortgages
  • Provide loans/guarantees for energy efficiency/clean energy
  • Provide tax incentives for clean energy
  • Support clean tech clusters/companies
  • Implement carbon tax
  • Fossil fuel divestment
  • Fossil fuel subsidies reform
  • Other, please specify

5. Governance sector (7 possible actions)

  • Collaborate with cities/local governments in reducing emissions/increasing resilience
  • Collaborate with national governments in reducing emissions/increasing resilience (e.g. development and delivery of NDC’s)
  • Collaborate with other states/regions in reducing emissions/increasing resilience
  • Support and incentivize businesses in reducing emissions/increasing resilience
  • Support and incentivize citizens in adapting environmentally friendly practices
  • Complete a 2050 Pathways analysis (i.e. strategy for meeting mid-century GHG reduction goals)
  • Alignment with Sustainable Development Goals
  • Other, please specify

6. Industry sector (7 possible actions)

  • Improve energy efficiency of industrial processes
  • Promote industrial symbiosis/industrial ecology programs
  • Promote reduced packaging
  • Support green manufacturing
  • Implement green public/private partnerships with industry
  • Support digitalization of industry
  • Regulate / incentivize reduction in use of HFC’s
  • Other, please specify

7. Land use sector (6 possible actions)

  • Establish GHG reduction plan for LULUCF (e.g. REDD+, etc.)
  • Promote conservation efforts for natural areas
  • Promote sustainable forest management
  • Undertake strategic environmental assessment
  • Promote sustainable coastal ecosystem management
  • Establish guidelines for siting renewable power
  • Other, please specify

8. Transport sector (14 possible actions)

  • Improve public transport services (e.g. adopt, high speed rail, improve bus services, improve rail services)
  • Promote digitalization in the transport sector (e.g. real-time information)
  • Promote active transport such as walking and cycling
  • Switch freight from high carbon to low carbon transport
  • Increase awareness/engage public on private transport measures
  • Install electric vehicle charging infrastructure (i.e. home, work, highways, etc.)
  • Provide incentives for zero-emission vehicles (e.g. purchase rebate, tax exemptions)
  • Promote alternative fuel production (e.g. biofuels, natural gas, hydrogen, etc.)
  • Set/strengthen standards for vehicles (e.g. for fuel economy GHG emissions, low carbon fuels)
  • Set manufacturing requirements (e.g. zero-emission vehicle standard)
  • Switch to electric/hybrid vehicles in cars/taxis/government fleets
  • Switch to other lower-carbon fuel in cars/taxis/government fleets (e.g. biofuels, natural gas, hydrogen, etc.)
  • ZEV Challenge Participants: progress towards procuring only zero-emission passenger vehicles for appropriate public fleets by 2030, or
  • converting all appropriate public fleet vehicles to zero-emission vehicles by 2030
  • Other, please specify

9. Waste sector (12 possible actions)

  • Adopt source separation policies (e.g. collection for dry recyclables, organic compostable waste, etc.)
  • Establish waste reduction/recycling plan
  • Increase awareness/engage public on waste reduction/recycling measures
  • Install advanced thermal treatment/waste to energy
  • Install anaerobic digestion
  • Install landfill gas management/landfill gas to energy
  • Install mechanical biological treatment
  • Install municipal recycling points or centers (for residents or businesses)
  • Install waste heat recovery
  • Implement practices and policies to promote circular economy
  • Reducing the municipal solid waste generation per capita
  • Reducing the amount of municipal solid waste disposed to landfill and incineration and increase the diversion rate away from landfill and incineration
  • Other, please specify

10. Water sector (4 possible actions)

  • Install water efficiency measures
  • Adopt wastewater to energy initiatives (e.g. methane recovery for reuse)
  • Install smart water meters
  • Promote water recycling or reclamation
  • Other, please specify

11. Healthcare sector (3 possible actions)

  • Support hospitals and public health systems to reduce GHG emissions (e.g. renewable energy, energy efficiency, reduce waste, etc.)
  • Support hospitals and public health systems to increase resilience to climate impacts (e.g. emergency response systems, microgrids, etc.)
  • Take steps to better integrate health policy and climate policy within the government
  • Other, please specify

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