CDP-ICLEI Unified Reporting System 2019

Introduction to CDP

CDP is a global environmental impact non-profit helping investors, companies and cities assess their environmental impact and take urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy.

High quality, relevant information is the fundamental basis for action and we help investors, companies and cities to measure, understand and address their environmental impact. The world’s economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action. We aim to make environmental reporting mainstream and provide the detailed insights and analysis to drive the urgent action needed for a climate safe, water secure, deforestation free world.

Introduction to CDP’s cities program

CDP offers a voluntary climate change reporting platform for city governments. The program provides the world’s first global platform for municipal governments to disclose greenhouse gas emissions, climate change risks, and mitigation and adaptation strategies. CDP collects and delivers materially relevant data for cities, the private sector, and other stakeholders.

Global cities stepping up on climate action showcases the action cities around the world are taking to transition to a sustainable, low carbon economy.

Cities 2019 Questionnaire

We invite a reply to the following questions. In 2019, CDP has partnered with ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability to present one unified platform for city climate reporting, streamlining the process of reporting and ensuing simplicity and standardisation for reporting cities. Cities will only have to report once, on one platform, to the following questions.

ICLEI will continue to support and provide technical assistance to local governments, while CDP and ICLEI will both use the self-reported city data to provide robust analysis of the action being taken by cities across the world.

How to respond

Please respond to the information request using CDP’s Online Response System (ORS), accessed via CDP’s website or the activation link you will receive. This document shows all the possible questions that cities may encounter in the ORS. However, it should not be used instead of the ORS. If you are unable to respond online via the ORS please e-mail [email protected].

Please answer the questions comprehensively while also assessing the relevance of the information you provide. Where you do not have all of the information requested, please respond with what you have as this is more valuable than no response.

The deadline for response is 10th July 2019.

Help and resources

• 2019 Online Reporting Guidance: This document provides a high-level overview of each questionnaire section as well as guidance on every question. It provides information on the intent of each question as well as examples of good responses for selected questions
• In-ORS Guidance: Within the ORS, there will be three levels of help and guidance
  1. Brief help text is provided below every question. This text will give you guidance on the intent of the question.
  2. Clicking on the help icon above each question will show a pop-up window with information on how to respond to the question.
  3. More detailed guidance can be found by clicking the expandable link below the question. This link will display the full reporting guidance including detailed information on how to respond, examples, links to documentation and scoring associated with the question.
• Contact us: All cities can write to [email protected] for questions which are not answered in the guidance, for help accessing the ORS, or for general inquiries.
• C40 cities can contact their regional director or [email protected] for help in compiling their response.
• ICLEI cities can contact their regional director or [email protected] for help in compiling their response.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

The Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM) has developed a new Common Reporting Framework in consultation with partners and cities and local governments around the world. This framework includes a set of global recommendations to ensure robust climate action planning, implementation and monitoring, and streamline measurement and reporting procedures. Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM) questions used to report using the new framework are integrated in the Cities questionnaire.

The GCoM reporting framework uses precise language to indicate which provisions are requirements and which are optional. The term “shall” is used throughout the guidance to indicate what is required. The mandatory GCoM Common Reporting Framework requirements are detailed using this terminology throughout this guidance document, under the “GCoM Guidance” sections.

Recommendations that GCoM cities are strongly advised to follow are introduced by the term “should”, and optional provisions are introduced by the term “may”.

For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

WWF’s One Planet City Challenge (OPCC)

Through this initiative, WWF will assess the gap between your city's current emissions and the safe range (limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees) and also advise on high impact reduction actions. For this analysis, the Global Covenant of Mayors reporting requirements will be used, which are integrated throughout the questionnaire. For more information, please contact WWF directly on [email protected].

Acknowledgements

CDP would like to thank the following people and organizations for their assistance in developing the CDP Cities 2019 questionnaire and guidance documents:

0. Introduction

Introduction

0.1 Please give a general description and introduction to your city including your city’s reporting boundary in the table below.

Question 0.1 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

Identify the administrative boundary of your city by selecting the most appropriate response from the following list of values:

• Local government area within a city / metropolitan area – a sub-tier of local government responsible for local services not overseen by the executive governing body (e.g., the City of London local authority within the Greater London Authority).
• City / Municipality – a city, town, village or borough, etc. with some degree of general purpose self-governance.
• Independent city – a city or town that does not form part of another local government entity (e.g., cities within U.S. States that are independent from county-level government such as Baltimore, Maryland or Carson City, Nevada; the German Kreisfreie Stadt or Stadtkreis such as Leipzig and München).
• Special city – cities or districts with special administrative status as compared to other similar urban areas (e.g., Seoul, South Korea; Kiev, Ukraine; Hong Kong Special administrative region).
• Federal district – a type of administrative division of a federation under the direct control of a federal government (e.g., Brasilia, Brazil; Washington, District of Columbia, USA; México, Distrito Federal, Mexico).
• Sovereign city-state – a state consisting of a sovereign city and its dependencies (e.g., Singapore; Vatican City).
• Metropolitan area – a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding areas (e.g., an urban area closely linked economically and socially, such as a commuting catchment area).
• Province/County – a geographical region that forms a subnational or substate division of governance that may include a number of cities, town, villages, etc. (e.g., Northumberland, UK).
• Independent province - an administrative division within a country or state, many have their own powers independent of central or federal authority, especially in Canada
• Intercommunality - a grouping of communes or municipalities that share some services.
• Sub-municipal district - an area within a town, village or borough, etc. with some degree of general purpose self-governance.
• Other area

You are also asked to give a description of your city. The information provided here will assist CDP in drawing upon distinctions, similarities, and comparative features between cities in terms of their community emissions as well as tools and successes in mitigating and adapting to climate change. Information that could be provided includes:

• Location, boundaries, geographic characteristics, and natural features
• Climatic characteristics
• Demographic characteristics (size of residential and commuter population)
• Features of the local and regional economy
• Unique and attractive characteristics
• Areas of global and/or economic competitiveness
• Changes in urban form and urban growth over the short to medium term, and projected changes in the coming medium to long term
• Institutional governance frameworks of the city, and relationship or jurisdictional matters to regional and national governments

0.2 If you have not previously submitted your Letter of Commitment to the Global Covenant of Mayors, either through the relevant regional covenant or through the Global Covenant secretariat, please attach the letter signed by an appropriately mandated official (e.g. Mayor, City Council) to this question. Please click here to download the template of the Letter of Commitment.

Response Options

Please attach the relevant document here.

Question 0.2 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

To join the Global Covenant of Mayors initiative, please visit the Global Covenant website and download the relevant Letter of Commitment template. Once the commitment letter is signed by an appropriately mandated official according to local government procedures, the city is asked to take action to transition to a low emission and climate resilient economy and regularly report on their progress.

Cities whose commitments have already been acknowledged by the Global Covenant do not need to reattach their letter. You can check the status of your commitment here.

City Details

0.3 Please provide information about your city’s Mayor or equivalent legal representative authority in the table below.

Question 0.3 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

This is a table question which asks for details about your mayor and their time in office. The table provided has the following field headers:

Leader title
State the official title of your mayor.

Leader name
State the full name of your mayor.

Current term end month
Select the month in which your Mayor's current term will end. The Mayor’s end of term is defined by the year when elections to select (or continue the current Mayor’s term) a new mayor are scheduled to occur.

Current term end year
State the year in which your Mayor‘s current term will end. The Mayor’s end of term is defined by the year when elections to select (or continue the current Mayor’s term) a new mayor are scheduled to occur.

0.4 Please select the currency used for all financial information disclosed throughout your response.

Response Options

Select from Appendix A.

Question 0.4 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

Guidance

Select from the currencies provided, the full list can be seen in Appendix A of the questionnaire.

The currency selected here will be used for all financial information throughout your response and auto-populated within question tables, such as GDP, operating budget and costs of planned resilience projects in your city.

This should be your preferred currency to report financial information, rather than necessarily the currency of your jurisdiction, as for some cities this may not be appropriate for estimating some project costs.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

0.5 Please provide details of your city’s current population. Report the population in the year of your reported inventory, if possible.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Question 0.5 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Local governments are recommended to report the population in the year of their reported inventory in order to enable meaningful comparisons over time and between local governments.

Guidance

This question asks about your city’s current population size and how it is forecast to change in the future. Report the population in the year of your reported inventory, if possible.

Current population
Give the current population, the number of residents within your city boundaries [as reported in question 0.1] as a whole number.

Current population year
State the year for which the population figure was determined in numerical form.

Projected population
State the projected population of your city as a number.

Projected population year
State the year for which the projected population figure is estimated to be reached, in numerical form.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

0.6 Please provide further details about the geography of your city.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Question 0.6 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

Guidance

Land area
State the land area within your city boundaries as a one decimal figure in km2. Please provide the land area that is reflective of your emissions inventory boundary and the year of your reported emissions inventory.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

1. Governance & Data Management

Governance

1.0 Does your city incorporate sustainability goals and targets (e.g. GHG reductions) into the master planning for the city?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• In progress
• Intending to incorporate in the next 2 years
• Not intending to incorporate
• Do not know

Guidance

A master plan describes and maps an overall development concept, including present and future land use, urban design and landscaping, built form, infrastructure, circulation and service provision. It is based upon an understanding of place and it is intended to provide a structured approach to creating a clear and consistent framework for development (definition taken from the Scottish government).

If Yes to 1.0:

1.0a Please detail which goals and targets are incorporated in your city’s master plan and describe how these goals are addressed in the table below.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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Guidance

The purpose of this question is to understand which sustainability goals or targets your city is implementing in their master plan and is thus impacting on city-wide development planning, further asking for detail of how each target is being addressed.

Goal type
Identify the type of goals and targets that are incorporated in your city’s master plan. The available responses in the drop down menu include:

• Emissions reduction targets;
• Adaptation targets;
• Renewable energy targets;
• Energy efficiency targets;
• Water security targets;
• Waste management targets;
• Other – a sustainability goal or target in another strategic area such as health or community.

How are these goals/targets addressed in the city master plan?
Provide further clarification about the answer you have provided in the previous question. Briefly describe how each goal or target is incorporated in your city’s master plan. You can also provide more information about the regional context, relationships with surrounding jurisdictions or the next level of government.

1.1 Has the Mayor or city council committed to climate adaptation and/or mitigation across the geographical area of the city?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• In progress
• Intending to undertake in future
• Not intending to undertake
• Do not know

Guidance

Please respond to indicate whether your city’s Mayor or leadership has made a public commitment to adapt the city to climate change. The available responses in the drop down menu include:

• “Yes” – if a public commitment has already been made
• “In progress” – if a commitment is being developed. For example, if there is currently a resolution before your local council to make a commitment, but it has not yet been approved
• “Intending to undertake in future” – if your mayor or local government is planning to commit to adapting to climate change in your city
• “Not intending to undertake” – if your mayor or local government is not planning to commit to adapting to climate change in your city
• “Do not know”

If Yes to 1.1:

1.1a Please select any commitments to climate adaptation and/or mitigation your city has signed and attach evidence.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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Guidance

This question allows you to provide more detailed information about the type of adaptation and/or mitigation commitments your mayor or local government has made. Please select from the list of frameworks to identify the name and type of the commitment, attach any relevant documents and provide more details on the specific commitments in the comments field.

Name of commitment and attach document
Select a commitment from the list of values, and attach the document demonstrating your city's commitment, signed by the Mayor, or other senior stakeholder within the city government.

• Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy;
• Compact of Mayors;
• Durban Adaptation Charter;
• Mayors Adapt (EU);
• Mexico City Pact;
• UNISDR, Making Cities Resilient Campaign;
• Individual City Commitment;
• 100 Resilient Cities;
• Resilient Communities for America;
• STAR Communities;
• LEED for Cities;
• Mayors National Climate Action Agenda;
• Chicago Climate Charter;
• Klimakommune (Climate Municipality);
• 100% Renewable Energy Cities & Regions Network;
• Building Efficiency Accelerator;
• District Energy in Cities Initiative;
• One Planet City Challenge;
• EcoMobility Alliance;
• ICLEI’s Green Climate Cities Program;
• Deadline 2020 - Delivering the 1.5 degree ambition of the Paris Agreement in a resilient, inclusive way;
• Individual City Commitment;
• Other

Click on ‘Choose file’, navigate to the file you want to upload and click ‘Open’. Once you can see the file name in the text field click ‘Attach’ to attach the document.

Type of commitment
If your city's commitment relates to adaptation measures (reducing the vulnerability to climate risk), select "Adaptation". If your city's commitment relates to mitigation or emissions reduction measures (reducing the impact your city has on the environment e.g. emissions or energy reduction), select "Mitigation". If the commitment relates to both adaptation and mitigation, select "Both".

Comments
Please add further comments on your commitment.

If Not intending to undertake to 1.1:

1.1b Please explain why your Mayor or city council does not have any commitments to climate adaptation and/or mitigation.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

Reason

Select from the following options in the drop-down menu the most appropriate reason for why your Mayor does not have or does not intend to have a commitment to tackle climate adaptation or mitigation:

• Lack of political will;
• Commitments are under consideration;
• Lack of funding / resources;
• Lack of expertise / knowledge;
• Actions prioritised over commitment;
• Other

Comment

If more than one reason exists, select the most pressing immediate barrier, and use the comment field to explain other confounding barriers

1.2 Please attach the letter from your city’s Mayor requesting the relevant local government department to participate in the Green Climate Cities (GCC) program.

Response Options

Please attach the relevant document here.

1.3 Please list the local government departments involved in the GCC program and its role. It is important to specify the program coordinator, action plan developer, GHG inventory accountant, verifier and action plan implementer.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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1.4 Please list the key development challenges, barriers and opportunities within the GCC Program.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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1.5 Please list the stakeholder engagement activities for each relevant stakeholder group

Response Options

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1.6 Does the Mayor have a statutory duty (legal responsibility) to reduce greenhouse gases?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes, driven by the regional level
• Yes, driven by the national level
• Yes, driven by the city
• No
• Do not know

1.7 How many staff (FTE) work on topics related to climate change mitigation and adaptation?

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

Indicate the number of resources within your city government allocated to climate change mitigation (either reducing the sources of greenhouse gases or enhancing "sinks" to accumulate and store gasses) and climate change adaptation (adjusting to actual or expected future climate).

Data Management

1.8 Please describe your city’s climate data management plan including data collection, storing, quality assurance/checking (QA/QC) and updating of the plan, and attach reference document.

Response Options

This is an open text question with an attachment function.

Please note that when copying from another document into the disclosure platform, formatting is not retained.

1.9 How many staff (FTE) does your city have for environmental related data management? (including collecting, storing, analyzing and communicating).

Response Options

Numerical field.

Guidance

Indicate how many staff members (or full time equivalent) are employed to manage and curate the data generated within your team for specific projects or ongoing programmes.

1.11 How would you characterize the data management of your city and department?

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

Indicate the level in which your department manages, governs, uses and controls data and information as an asset.

1.12 What tools does your city / department use to manage its environmental related data?

Response Options

Select all that apply:

• Microsoft Excel
• Enterprise (packaged) software
• Custom designed software
• Other

Guidance

This question asks about what software your city / department uses to manage environmental related data. Data management refers to the collection, processing, analysis, storage and communication of data.

1.13 What tools does your city / department use to analyse its environmental related data?

Response Options

Select all that apply:

• Microsoft Excel
• Statistical Software - SPSS, SAS, etc.
• Visualization/Analysis Software - Tableau, Qlik, etc
• Other
• We do not analyse our environmental data

Guidance

This question aims to understand the software tools used by your city / department to analyse environmental related data. Data analysis refers to the research, organisation and manipulation of data in a way that brings about useful information.

1.14 Does your city have a team dedicated to data analysis (e.g., data analytics staff, performance management staff, evaluation staff, chief data officer, etc.)?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• The city does not have a team dedicated to data analysis
• The city has a team dedicated to data analysis that supports some departments, but our engagement with them is limited
• The city has a team dedicated to data analysis city-wide

1.15 Has your city's Mayor or equivalent legal authority communicated their commitment to governing with data publicly to city residents (e.g., through public remarks, press releases, etc.)?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No
• Do not know

2. Climate Hazards and Vulnerability

Section Overview

This section asks how climate change is affecting your city now and may affect it in the future. Further information regarding climate change adaptation analysis is available from the following sources:

• UKCIP Adaptation Wizard by UKCIP
• Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies by UNEP
• City Climate Hazard Taxonomy by C40 and ARUP

Questions 2.0-2.2 ask about your city’s risk or vulnerability assessment processes. A climate change risk and vulnerability assessment is used to determine the nature and extent of risks posed by climate change. This is done by analyzing potential future climate hazards and evaluating existing vulnerabilities to understand the seriousness of the potential impacts on people, assets, services, livelihoods and the environment.

When identifying impacts from climate change, cities should think objectively of the ways in which changes in the climate conditions will affect their city’s ability to conduct business as usual. Information about impacts associated with climate change can be found on the website of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in the report by Working Group II, " Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability "

Climate risk assessment considers the likely frequency of a climate hazard and magnitude of their impacts in a given place or population, based on the exposure of assets to the effects of a hazard, and the vulnerability of the population to loss or damage (IPCC, AR5 WGII SPM, 2014; UNISDR, 2012).

Information about the Climate Hazards faced by cities and driving their exposure to climate and social risks is sought in questions 2.1. Climate hazards are defined as dangerous climate-related physical events that may cause loss of life, injury, or other health impacts, as well as damage and loss to property, infrastructure, livelihoods, service provision, ecosystems, and environmental resources.

Adaptation is covered in Questions 3.0 to 3.2. These questions examine the actions your city takes to adapt to the risks of climate change.

Risk and Vulnerability Assessment

2.0 Has a climate change risk or vulnerability assessment been undertaken for the city area?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

Question 2.0 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

The local government shall prepare and submit a climate risk and vulnerability assessment within two years after committing to GCoM.

Guidance

Please respond to indicate whether your city has undertaken a climate change risk or vulnerability assessment by selecting the most relevant option from the drop down menu.

The effects of climate change may pose a significant risk to your city’s future development. A climate change risk or vulnerability assessment is a qualitative or quantitative scientific estimation the risks from, hazards associated or vulnerability to climate change. These assessments are most usually done within the context of a decision-making or planning process to address climate change impacts.

Before developing an adaptation plan, it is important to understand how climate change is likely to affect your city - this is usually done by conducting a climate change risk or vulnerability assessment.

A vulnerability assessment is the analysis of the expected impacts, risks and the adaptive capacity of your city to the effects of climate change.

A high-quality vulnerability assessment involves engagement with a broad range of stakeholders. It is important to recognize the diverse expertise that different stakeholders provide Broad engagement can result in identification of previously overlooked areas of vulnerability or in a more nuanced understanding of the root cause of vulnerabilities and hence better-targeted adaptation responses.

More can be read about creating a climate risk or vulnerability assessment in both the:

• CRAFT Climate Risk and Adaptation Framework and Taxonomy
• Planning for climate change: Guide – UN-Habitat

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

If Yes or In progress to 2.0:

2.0a Please select the primary process or methodology used to undertake the risk or vulnerability assessment of your city.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

Answering this question will provide important information for other cities which are assessing their risks from or vulnerability to climate change for the first time and may be interested in the methodology you used.

In the first field, please select the methodology you used to assess the risk in your city. If you have used a different assessment methodology than the ones proposed in the list of values, please select ‘Other’ and indicate the name of the methodology you have used. Select ‘Unknown’ if you do not know on which methodology the assessment was based. If your city uses a combination of methodologies, please select the main methodology used.

Primary methodology

• IPCC climate change impact assessment guidance
• OECD Strategic Environmental Assessment and Adaptation to Climate Change
• UNDP climate risk management methodologies
• UK Climate Impacts Partnership Framework (UKCIP)
• World Bank Urban Risk Assessment (URA)
• Shaping climate resilient development: A framework for decision making (ECA)
• Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
• US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
• Australian/New Zealand Standard for Risk Management
• State or region vulnerability and risk assessment methodology
• Agency specific vulnerability and risk assessment methodology
• Proprietary Methodology
• CRAFT Tool - City Climate Hazard Taxonomy;
• Building Adaptive and Resilient Cities (BARC) toolkit (regional – Canada);
• ICLEI ACCCRN Process Toolkit (regional - Southeast Asia);
• Local Government Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit (regional - Oceania);
• Unknown
• Other

Description
Use the description field to provide more details on how the assessment was carried out. You can include details about whether the assessment covered city operations, private stakeholders, a full range of sectors etc. In particular, if you choose ‘Proprietary Methodology’ or ‘Other’ to describe your methodology, please provide details so that others may understand your approach.

The following resources provide further information about physical risks and the methodology of risk assessment:

• The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (Working Group II: Impacts, Adaption and Vulnerability)
• ICLEI climate adaptation methodology (ADAPT) e.g. http://www.icleiusa.org/tools/adapt and http://archive.iclei.org/index.php?id=adaptation-toolkit0 .
• A report of the Economics of Climate Adaptation (ECA) Working Group: Shaping climate resilient development: A framework for decision making
• An example of a regional (country-level) vulnerability assessment is the Swedish Commission on Climate and Vulnerability report titled Sweden facing climate change – threats and opportunities
• An example of an agency specific vulnerability and risk assessment methodology is the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highways Administration Methodology.

If Yes to 2.0:

2.0b Please attach and provide details on your climate change risk and vulnerability assessment. Please provide details on the boundary of your assessment, and where this differs from your city’s boundary, please provide an explanation.

Question 2.0b is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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Guidance

Publication title and attach the document
Please state the name of your climate change risk or vulnerability assessment. If a formal assessment of your city’s vulnerabilities to climate change has been done, please attach this document here. Click on ‘Choose file’, navigate to the file you want to upload and click ‘Open’. Once you can see the file name in the text field click ‘Attach’ to attach the document.

Year of adoption from local government
Please state the year that your climate change risk or vulnerability assessment was published.

Web link
If you would like to provide a web link to your city’s climate change risk or vulnerability assessment in addition to attaching the document, please add the link here.

Boundary of assessment relative to city boundary (reported in 0.1)
Indicate the boundary of your city’s risk or vulnerability assessment relative to your city’s boundary (as reported in 0.1) by selecting the most applicable response from the following list of values. CDP recommends cities to develop assessments that cover at least the entire city boundary:

• Same – covers entire city and nothing else
• Smaller – covers only part of the city
• Larger – covers the whole city and adjoining areas
• Partial – covers part of the city and adjoining areas

Explanation of boundary choice where the assessment boundary differs from the city boundary
Please explain your choice in the previous field. For example, if your city’s risk assessment covers only part of the city, please use this field to describe which areas your assessment covers and the reason behind this. If your city’s risk assessment covers the entire city and nothing else, there is no need to provide an explanation here.

Areas/sectors covered by the risk and vulnerability assessment

Please select all the relevant sectors or areas that are covered in your city's risk and vulnerability assessment, especially the key areas covered.

• Energy
• Water Supply & Sanitation
• Transport
• Food and agriculture
• Waste Management
• Information & Communications Technology
• Environment, Biodiversity and Forestry
• Industrial
• Commercial
• Residential
• Education
• Public health
• Community & Culture
• Law & Order
• Emergency Management
• Land use planning
• Tourism
• Other

Primary author of assessment
Indicate who was predominately responsible for carrying out the risk or vulnerability assessment for your jurisdiction by selecting the most applicable response from the following list of values:

• Dedicated city team
• Relevant city department
• Consultant
• International organization
• Community group
• Regional / state / provincial government
• National / central government
• Other

Does the assessment identify vulnerable populations?
Vulnerable populations include individuals or groups of people who are less able than the general population to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impacts of disasters. Vulnerable populations may be described by race or ethnicity, culture, socio-economic status, geography, gender, disability, and age, or other characteristic, and may be disproportionally likely to be affected by climate hazards.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Please find below a breakdown of the information cities and local governments are asked to compile and report on as part of the GCoM new common reporting framework.

If Not intending to undertake is selected in 2.0:

2.0c Please explain why your city does not have a climate risk and vulnerability assessment.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

Reason

• Lack of expertise;
• Lack of political will;
• Climate hazards not experienced in the city;
• Other

Comment

If more than one reason exists, select the most pressing immediate barrier, and use the comment field to explain other confounding barriers

Climate Hazards

2.1 Please list the most significant climate hazards faced by your city and indicate the probability and consequence of these hazards, as well as the expected future change in frequency and intensity. Please also select the most relevant assets or services that are affected by the climate hazard and provide a description of the impact.

Question 2.1 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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Guidance

This table question is to identify climate hazards that your city experiences. It asks for current hazards and the probability and anticipated consequence of their impact, as well as their future change in frequency and intensity, and top 3 affected assets/services. An example response has been provided the box below. Responses should be reported in the table provided using the drop down menus where appropriate, as detailed below:

Climate hazards
Indicate the climate hazards that your city experiences either currently or in the future. It is only necessary to select the most significant hazards that your city experiences; table rows can be added or deleted as needed. Please select the ‘most significant’ hazards as relevant to your city’s understanding of significance. To help navigate the list, you will find the climate hazards grouped into major climate hazard category areas.

Climate hazards can be selected from the following list of values:

• Extreme Precipitation > Rain storm
• Extreme Precipitation > Monsoon
• Extreme Precipitation > Heavy snow
• Extreme Precipitation > Fog
• Extreme Precipitation > Hail
• Storm and wind > Severe wind
• Storm and wind > Tornado
• Storm and wind > Cyclone (Hurricane / Typhoon)
• Storm and wind > Extra tropical storm
• Storm and wind > Tropical storm
• Storm and wind > Storm surge
• Storm and wind > Lightning / thunderstorm
• Extreme cold temperature > Extreme winter conditions
• Extreme cold temperature > Cold wave
• Extreme cold temperature > Extreme cold days
• Extreme hot temperature > Heat wave
• Extreme hot temperature > Heat wave
• Water Scarcity > Drought
• Wild fire > Forest fire
• Wild fire > Land fire
• Flood and sea level rise > Flash / surface flood
• Flood and sea level rise > River flood
• Flood and sea level rise > Coastal flood
• Flood and sea level rise > Groundwater flood
• Flood and sea level rise > Permanent inundation
• Chemical change > Salt water intrusion
• Chemical change > Ocean acidification
• Chemical change > Atmospheric CO2 concentrations
• Mass movement > Landslide
• Mass movement > Avalanche
• Mass movement > Rock fall
• Mass movement > Subsidence
• Biological hazards > Water-borne disease
• Biological hazards > Vector-borne disease
• Biological hazards > Air-borne disease
• Biological hazards > Insect infestation

Did this hazard significantly impact your city before 2019?
Indicate using the drop-down menu whether the climate hazard selected had a significant impact on your city before 2019, to allow identification of hazards previously impacting the city.

Current probability of hazard
Indicate the likelihood of each climate hazard identified in the first field occurring within the next five years. If possible, this response should be based on the outcome of a risk or vulnerability assessment process. If your assessment process has not provided quantitative estimates of likelihood, please estimate using the qualitative descriptors provided below. Select the most appropriate response from the following list of values:

• High – Extremely likely that the hazard will occur (e.g. greater than 1 in 2 change of occurrence over the next five years)
• Medium high – Highly likely that the hazard will occur (e.g. between 1 in 2 and 1 in 20 chance of occurrence over the next five years)
• Medium – Likely that the hazard will occur (e.g. between 1 in 20 and 1 in 200 chance of occurrence over the next five years)
• Medium low – Somewhat likely that the hazard will occur (e.g. between 1 in 200 and 1 in 2,000 chance of occurrence over the next five years)
• Low – Not likely that the hazard will occur (e.g. between 1 in 2,000 and 1 in 20,000 chance of occurrence over the next five years)
• Do not know

Current consequence of hazard
Indicate the consequence of possible impacts of each climate hazard identified in the first field on your jurisdiction within the next five years. If possible, this response should be based on the outcome of a risk or vulnerability assessment process. If your assessment process has not provided quantitative estimates of level of impact, please estimate using the qualitative descriptors provided below. Select the most appropriate response from the following list of values:

• High – The hazard represents the highest level of potential concern for your jurisdiction. You anticipate that should it occur, the hazard would result in extremely serious impacts to your city and catastrophic interruption to day-to-day life.
• Medium high – The hazard represents a high level of potential concern for your jurisdiction. You anticipate that should it occur, the hazard would result in serious impacts to your jurisdiction and interruption to day-to-day life.
• Medium - The hazard represents a medium level of potential concern for your jurisdiction. You anticipate that should it occur, the hazard would result in impacts to your jurisdiction, but that these would be moderately significant to day-to-day life.
• Medium low – The hazard represents a lower level of potential concern for your jurisdiction. You anticipate that should it occur, the hazard would result in impacts to your jurisdiction, but that these would be less significant to day-to-day life.
• Low - The hazard represents the lowest level of potential concern for your jurisdiction. You anticipate that should it occur, the hazard would result in impacts to your jurisdiction, but that these would be insignificant in day-to-day life.
• Do not know

Social impact of hazard overall
Please select all social risks that are expected to occur within your city as a result of the specified climate hazard:

• Fluctuating socio-economic conditions
• Increased incidence and prevalence of disease
• Increased demand for public services
• Increased demand for healthcare services
• Increased risk to already vulnerable populations
• Increased conflict and/or crime
• Increased resource demand
• Loss of traditional jobs
• Migration from rural areas to cities
• Population displacement
• Loss of tax base to support public services
• Other

Future change in frequency
Indicate the expected change in frequency of climate change hazards in your jurisdiction based on the following list of values:

• Increasing – climate change will cause the hazard to occur more frequently in the future
• Decreasing – climate change will cause the hazard to occur less frequently in the future
• None – climate change will have no effect on the frequency of hazards
• Do not know

Future change in intensity
Indicate the expected change in intensity of climate change hazards in your jurisdiction based on the following list of values:

• Increasing – future hazards will be more intense as a result of climate change
• Decreasing – future hazards will be less intense as a result of climate change
• None – climate change will have no effect on the intensity of hazards
• Do not know

When do you first expect to experience those changes?
Indicate the timescale at which changes to the frequency and intensity of climate change hazards are expected to occur based on the following list of values:

• Immediately - if your city is already currently experiencing the changes to the frequency and intensity of the specified climate hazards
• Short-term – if you anticipate your jurisdiction will experience the changes to the frequency and intensity of the specified climate hazards by 2025.
• Medium-term – if you anticipate your jurisdiction will experience the changes to the frequency and intensity of the specified climate hazards between 2026 and 2050
• Long-term – if you anticipate your jurisdiction will experience the changes to the frequency and intensity of the specified climate hazards after 2051.

Most relevant asset or services affected overall
Indicate the critical assets or services in your jurisdiction that will be MOST AFFECTED by the corresponding climate hazard overall in the first field based on the following list of values: [NB: Stakeholders have varied needs and priorities in relation to the risks of climate impacts. This question aims to capture an overview of your city’s overall assessment of the most critical city assets or services impacted by each climate hazard.

• Energy
• Water supply & sanitation
• Transport
• Food & agriculture
• Waste management
• Information & communications technology
• Environment, biodiversity, forestry
• Industrial
• Commercial
• Residential
• Education
• Tourism
• Public health
• Society / community & culture
• Law & order
• Emergency services
• Land use planning
• Other

Please identify which vulnerable populations are affected

Please select all vulnerable population groups that are expected to be affected by the climate hazard overall. Select all that apply from the list:

• Women & girls
• Children & youth
• Elderly
• Indigenous population
• Marginalized groups
• Persons with disabilities
• Persons with chronic diseases
• Low-income households
• Unemployed persons
• Persons living in sub-standard housing
• Other

Magnitude of impact

Indicate the magnitude to which each climate hazard identified in the first column is expected to affect your city overall by selecting one of the following values:

• Extremely serious –you expect that the hazard may significantly affect the operation of a majority of critical assets and services across the city, and may result in the death or injury of a significant number of people and/or extreme economic disruption.
• Serious –you expect that the hazard may significantly affect the operation of some critical assets and services, or moderately affect a majority of critical assets and services, and may result in the death or injury of a number of people and/or major economic disruption
• Less serious –you expect that the hazard may moderately affect the operation of some critical assets and services, is unlikely to result in injury or death, but may cause moderate to insignificant economic disruption.

Please describe the impacts experienced so far, and how you expect the hazard to impact in the future

Provide a general description of how each of the climate hazards identified in the first field has affected the city so far, and how these effects will change in future, including any specific areas within the city where impacts will be felt most and including any interdependencies between various assets and services and any vulnerable populations that may be particularly affected.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

The local government shall identify the most significant climate hazards faced by the community. For each identified climate hazard, the local government shall report the following information in question table 2.1:

• Current probability and consequence level of the hazard
• Expected intensity, frequency, and timescale of the hazard
• All relevant assets or services that are expected to be most impacted by the hazard in the future, and the magnitude of the impact for each of them
• Description of expected future impacts

Past Hazards

Major hazards that occurred in past years can be identified by answering “Yes” to the field asking whether this hazard significantly impacted your city before 2019. If major hazards did occur in past years, the local government shall also report the following information:

• Vulnerable population groups most affected by the hazard (if available) in the “Please identify which vulnerable populations are affected” field
• Scale of the hazard, including loss of human lives, economic losses (direct and indirect, if possible), environmental and other impacts in the “describe the impacts experienced” field

Example response

Please see below for an example.

2.2 Please identify the factors that most greatly affect your city’s ability to adapt to climate change and indicate how those factors either support or challenge this ability.

Question 2.2 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

The local government shall identify factors that will most greatly affect its own and the city’s adaptive capacity and enhance climate resilience. For each factor, the local government shall report the following information in question table 2.2:

• Description of the factor as it relates to (supporting or challenging) the adaptive capacity in the “Support/Challenge” field
• Degree to which the factor challenges (as opposed to supports) the adaptive capacity and obstructs enhanced climate resilience in the description field

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

Guidance

This table question is to identify factors in your jurisdiction that either support or challenge its capacity to adapt to the impacts of future climate hazards. Responses should be reported in the table provided using the drop down menus where appropriate. Please refer to the example table below for more detail.

Factors that affect adaptive capacity
Indicate the major factors that either support or challenge your jurisdiction’s adaptive capacity. Please provide one response per table row, or select the ‘other’ value to add a new factor not listed.

Note that you can select the same factor more than once if that factor both support and challenges your jurisdiction’s adaptive capacity. For example, a jurisdiction experiencing rapid urbanization may benefit from increased economic growth and human capital; however, this trend may also experience significant pressure on infrastructure services that may increase the risk of day-to-day service interruptions, thus weakening the city’s resilience to shock events.

Factors can be selected from the following list of values:

• Access to basic services;
• Access to healthcare;
• Access to education;
• Cost of living;
• Housing;
• Poverty;
• Inequality;
• Unemployment;
• Public health;
• Political stability;
• Political engagement / transparency;
• Government capacity;
• Budgetary capacity;
• Migration; Safety and security;
• Economic health;
• Economic diversity;
• Rapid urbanization;
• Resource availability;
• Environmental conditions;
• Infrastructure conditions / maintenance;
• Infrastructure capacity;
• Land use planning;
• Community engagement;
• Access to quality / relevant data;
• Other

Support / challenge
Indicate whether each of the factors identified in the first field supports or challenges your jurisdiction’s adaptive capacity. Factors that support your adaptive capacity will be those that make adaptation easier, those that challenge will make it more difficult to adapt effectively. For an example response, please refer to the example below.

Please describe the factor and the degree to which it supports or challenges the adaptive capacity of your city
Provide a brief description of how each factor identified in the first field is supporting or challenging your jurisdiction’s adaptive capacity.

Example Response

3. Adaptation

Adaptation Actions

3.0 Please describe the main actions you are taking to reduce the risk to, or vulnerability of, your city’s infrastructure, services, citizens, and businesses from climate change as identified in the Climate Hazards section.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Question 3.0 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Please find below a breakdown of the information cities and local governments are asked to compile and report on as part of the GCoM new common reporting framework.

Guidance

Climate hazards
This list will be automatically filled with the values you reported in the first field of question 2.1. Please ensure you make a selection in this field, from the list shown which is populated with selections you made in the "Climate hazards" field of question 2.1. Only leave this field blank if your city is taking broad adaptation measures which do not relate to a specific climate hazard.

Action
This field asks to detail the actions you are taking to adapt to climate change. The list of actions that you can select from is located in Appendix B in the questionnaire.

Action title

Use this text box to provide the name (if applicable) of the adaptation action or project your city is undertaking.

Status of action
Select the most appropriate option from the drop-down menu to describe the current stage of implementation of the project or action.

Co-benefit area

Actions taken to adapt to climate change can also provide additional areas of benefit for the city. Please select which areas other than reducing vulnerability are also improved as a result of the action.

Action description and implementation progress
In this field, please give any further relevant comments about the action. Description of actions should include details about: project scope, timescale, current status of implementation, barriers to implementation, collaborators and projected impact on climate hazard.

Finance status

Please select the relevant financial status of the adaptation action from the list provided.

Total cost of the project

Please provide the total expected cost of the project, in numbers with no delimiters. For example $600,000 should be written as 600000. Please ensure you are reporting using the currency selected in 0.4.

Total cost provided by the local government

Please provide the total cost provided by the local government, if any, in numbers with no delimiters. For example $600,000 should be written as 600000. Please ensure you are reporting using the currency selected in 0.4.

Primary fund source

Please select the relevant fund source providing the majority of funding for the project.

Web link

Use this field to provide a link to the project website, where applicable, to provide more information on the initiative.

Example response

For explanatory purposes, a sample answer to this question is given below.

Adaptation Planning

3.1 Does your city council have a published plan that addresses climate change adaptation?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• In progress
• Intending to undertake in the next 2 years
• Not intending to undertake
• Do not know

Question 3.1 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Local governments shall develop plans for both climate change mitigation and adaptation (climate resilience), which may be presented in separate plans or an integrated plan. Local governments shall submit their climate action plans to GCoM within three years upon joining GCoM.

Please note that local governments may develop joint action plans with their neighbouring communities.

Guidance

Please respond to indicate whether your city has produced an adaptation plan, or incorporated adaptation within the context of another long-term plan or strategy by selecting “Yes”, “In progress”, “Intending to undertake in future”, “Not intending to undertake” or “Don’t know” from the drop down menu.

A climate adaptation plan outlines the planned alterations to the city’s systems in response to actual or anticipated climate change. It should cover the services and departments directly managed by the city government and may also consider the actions required by other stakeholders*. The aim of an adaptation plan is to moderate harm or exploit beneficial opportunities from expected climate change and its effects.

*Based on the glossary document of the IPCC

Example Response

If you wish to see an example of a climate adaptation plan, please refer to Copenhagen’s which can be found here.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

If Yes or In progress to 3.1:

3.1a Please provide more information on your plan that addresses climate change adaptation and attach the document. Please provide details on the boundary of your plan, and where this differs from your city’s boundary, please provide an explanation.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Question 3.1a is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Please find below a breakdown of the information cities and local governments are asked to compile and report on as part of the GCoM new common reporting framework.

Guidance

If you have a climate adaptation plan, please provide additional details about it in this question. Some cities are still working on their climate adaptation plan, attaching it here will enable them to understand your approach better. Please fill in the table with the following information:

Publication title and attach the document
State the official name of your plan that addresses climate change adaptation. Click on ‘Choose file’, navigate to the file you want to upload and click ‘Open’. Once you can see the file name in the text field click ‘Attach & Save’ to attach the document.

Areas covered by adaptation plan

Select all the relevant main areas that are covered within the adaptation plan from the list.

Year of adoption from local government
Enter the year the plan was published and adopted by the city as a numeric value.

Boundary of assessment relative to city boundary (reported in 0.1)

Indicate the boundary of your city’s adaptation plan relative to your city’s boundary (as reported in 0.1) by selecting the most applicable response from the following list of values:

• Same – covers entire city and nothing else
• Smaller – covers only part of the city
• Larger – covers the whole city and adjoining areas
• Partial – covers part of the city and adjoining areas

If the city boundary is different from the plan boundary, please explain why and any areas/other cities excluded or included
Please explain your choice in the previous field. For example, if your city’s risk assessment covers only part of the city, please use this field to describe which areas your plan covers and the reason behind this.

Stage of implementation
Indicate the extent to which your city has implemented its adaptation plan by selecting the most applicable response from the following list of values:

• Plan in development – your jurisdiction has identified a vision and goals; and begun to organize resources to develop a plan;
• Plan developed but not implemented – plan to implement actions has been developed and implementation tools have been identified;
• Plan in implementation –if your jurisdiction has begun to implement actions from the climate action plan (execution);
• Implementation complete – if the actions identified in the plan have been fully implemented;
• Measurement in progress – if the project is complete and results are being measured;
• Plan update in progress – if your jurisdiction has begun to update the action plan based on the progress and success of actions that have been executed;
• Other.

Type of plan
Indicate whether the adaptation plan is a standalone document or integrated into other city plans by selecting the most applicable response from the following list of values:

• Standalone; Integrated mitigation/adaptation;
• Addressed in general city plan;
• Addressed in city sector plan;
• Other

Has your local government assessed the synergies, trade-offs, and co-benefits, if any, of the main mitigation and adaptation actions you identified?

Please select from the options to indicate whether your city has assessed the synergies, trade-offs, and co-benefits, of the main mitigation and adaptation actions identified in the plan. Click here to read more about how to identify potential interactions between climate adaptation and mitigation measures.

Comment or describe the synergies, trade-offs, and co-benefits of this interaction

Describe the interactions between adaptation and mitigation measures, and how these were assessed.

Primary author of plan
Indicate the primary author responsible for the primary planning document to address climate adaptation in your jurisdiction by selecting the most applicable response from the following list of values:

• Dedicated city team
• Relevant city department
• Consultant
• International organization
• Community group
• Regional / state / provincial government
• National / central government
• Other

Description of the stakeholder engagement processes

Please describe the stakeholder engagement processes conducted during the development of the adaptation plan, including stakeholders involved, how the relevant stakeholders were engaged and the results of the engagement.

Web link

If you would like to provide a web link to your city’s climate change risk or vulnerability assessment, in addition to attaching the document, please add the link here.

If Not intending to 3.1:

3.1b Please explain why not and any future arrangements you have to create a plan.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

Select from the following options in the drop-down menu the most appropriate reason for why you do not have or do not intend to have a climate adaptation plan:

• Adaptation is not within city control;
• Adaptation is covered under main city strategy;
• Lack of resources/funding;
• Lack of expertise;
• Lack of political will;
• Adaptation is covered in the city plans;
• Adaptation is not currently a priority for my city;
• Other

In the comment field please provide more information or context on the reason selected. Such a description should include information about the practical barriers that impact each reason.

For information see the 'Urban Adaptation Support Tool', which has been developed for European cities to support their adaptation efforts.

Adaptation Goals

3.2 Please describe the main goals of your city’s adaptation efforts and the metrics/KPIs for each goal.

Question 3.2 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Please find below a breakdown of the information cities and local governments are asked to compile and report on as part of the GCoM new common reporting framework.

Guidance

This question is part of the CRAFT Climate Risk and Adaptation Framework and Taxonomy, answers can be copied across from the corresponding question in the spreadsheet that you reported last year.

This table question is to identify the overarching goals for your jurisdiction’s adaptation efforts, and to understand if and how your jurisdiction plans to monitor and evaluate progress towards these goals.

Adaptation goals
Briefly state (10 to 20 words) your jurisdiction’s main goals for climate adaptation. If possible, these goals should be time bounded, and able to be monitored and evaluated based on specific metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs). Please add or delete table rows as needed for your entries.

Target year
Please enter in numerical form the year by which you anticipate achieving your goal. Please note that the target year cannot be in the past.

Metrics / indicators
If applicable, briefly state (5 to 10 words) the metrics or indicators that are being used to monitor and evaluate progress towards the goals identified in the first field.

Percentage of target achieved so far

Please enter a numerical value for the percentage of your emissions reduction target that you have achieved since the ‘Target year start’, without commas and without the percentage symbol (%). If you have a fixed level target, you can calculate the % of target achieved so far if you have base and current emissions figures.State the target’s percentage completion (in terms of emissions) against the base year emissions. For example, if your target is to reduce your emissions by 10% by 2020 compared with a 2010 base year, and in your reporting year your emissions had reduced by 3% compared to that target base year, your target is 30% complete ((3/10) x 100). If you have met your target in the reporting year, indicate 100% complete.

Does this target align with a requirement from a higher level of government?
Indicate if the adaptation goal set by your jurisdiction relates to a higher level of government such as state, regional or national government

4. City-wide Emissions

The questions in this section refer to your city’s city-wide (sometimes referred to as “geographic” or “community”) emissions inventory. This inventory encompasses emissions which are within a particular city boundary, over which local governments can exercise a degree of influence through the policies and regulations they implement.

Section Overview

This module gives you the opportunity to disclose your community (or “city-wide”) emissions inventory as well as some other metrics that will provide a holistic picture of your emissions and activities.

This section of the questionnaire is divided into 3 pages:

• GHG Emissions Data (Questions 4.0-4.9): This page defines the 12 month period over which data is reported and the boundary of your community emissions inventory – this period and boundary should be consistent throughout the inventory. You must provide a 12 month period.
• External Verification (Question 4.11): The page of the community emissions inventory collects information on verification of emissions data.
• Historical emissions inventories (Question 4.12): This page requests any historical emissions inventories to be reported
• Re-stating previous emissions inventories (Question 4.13): This final page is about any past city-wide emission inventories that might have been recalculated since the last submission.

In general, emissions from local government operations represent only a small portion of overall emissions from the community over which the government has jurisdiction. Capturing community emissions – often referred to as the “geographic” or “city-wide” emissions inventory – creates a snapshot of all local activities and their contribution to global climate change. Collating community emissions can provide a basis from which cities can develop policy and enact regulation with the aim of reducing these emissions.

Global momentum is growing around the protocol created by C40, WRI, ICLEI, and the World Bank, called the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories. A number of large cities have piloted the first version of this methodology in 2013, and the partnership published this full version in 2014. CDP Cities recommend this framework for emissions inventory and it is a requirement of Global Covenant of Mayors reporting compliance.

Many other methodologies exist. It may be the case that individual cities are using methodologies designed for national or regional inventories, but ‘downscaling’ them for their jurisdictions. Thus, using the IPCC national inventory framework as the basic accounting architecture, but tailoring to local circumstances to manage data availability and reliability issues, is one approach. Other examples include the use of Greenhouse Gas Regional Inventory Protocol (GRIP), which, as the name implies, is designed for regional calculations. Some cities have adapted this framework for their boundaries (e.g. Sacramento, California). Even cities that use common approaches produce variations in what is included in their community emissions. The World Bank, UNEP and UN Habitat have also created an emissions inventory protocol for cities (International Standard for Determining Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Cities) (Note that this protocol will be replaced by the Global Protocol for Community Greenhouse Gas Inventories).

Cities can report their emissions on CDP’s platform regardless of which protocol or methodology they have used to develop their inventory.

City-wide GHG Emissions Data

4.0 Does your city have a city-wide emissions inventory to report?

By selecting Yes below, you are indicating that you have fuel and/or greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data from the entire city area over which the city government can exercise a degree of influence through the policies and regulations they implement (sometimes referred to as ‘geographic’ or ‘community’ emissions) to report at this time.

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• In progress
• Intending to undertake in the next 2 years
• Not intending to undertake

Question 4.0 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

Guidance

City-wide (sometimes referred to as “community” or “geographic”): encompassing emissions which are within a particular geopolitical region, over which local governments can exercise a degree of influence through the policies and regulations they implement.

For more information on the difference between Government and Community emissions inventories, please see the following documents:

• Local Government Operations Protocol (LGOP) for the Quantification and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories (Version 1.1) (a collaboration between The California Air Resources Board, The California Climate Action Registry, The Climate Registry, and ICLEI)
• International Local Government GHG Emissions Analysis Protocol (IEAP) developed by ICLEI
• Appendix B in the Global Protocol for Community-scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (WRI, C40 and ICLEI).

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

If Yes or In Progress to 4.0:

4.1 Please state the dates of the accounting year or 12-month period for which you are reporting your latest city-wide GHG emissions inventory.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Question 4.1 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Local governments shall submit their greenhouse gas emissions inventory to GCoM within two years upon joining GCoM. Greenhouse gas emissions inventories shall cover a consecutive period of 12 months.

Guidance

The ORS provides a drop-down calendar for you to enter the dates requested. Entries must be for a 12-month period. Please provide the start date of the period for which your emissions inventory represents in the first field, and the end date of the period for which it represents in the second. If you do not have data for the entire 12-month period, please extrapolate to 12 months.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

If Yes or In Progress to 4.0:

4.2 Please indicate the category that best describes the boundary of your city-wide GHG emissions inventory.

Question 4.2 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

Boundary of inventor relative to city boundary (reported in 0.1)

Indicate the boundary of your city-wide emissions inventory relative to your city’s boundary (as reported in 0.1) by selecting the most applicable response from the following list of values:

• Same – covers entire city and nothing else
• Smaller – covers only part of the city
• Larger – covers the whole city and adjoining areas
• Partial – covers part of the city and adjoining areas

Excluded sources/areas
Please explain your choice in the previous field. For example, if your city-wide emissions inventory covers only part of the city or includes areas outside the city boundary, please use this field to describe which areas your plan covers and which are excluded.

Explanation of boundary choice where the inventory boundary differs from the city boundary (include inventory boundary, GDP and population)
Please explain the reason for the exclusions or inclusions identified in the previous column. For example if an area within the city boundary such as the port has been excluded, please explain why.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Local governments shall consider all categories of emission sources and report all emissions that are significant. Exclusion of emission sources shall be disclosed and justified.

Please note that local governments may develop joint GHG inventories with their neighbouring communities. Please detail the neighbouring communities included in the inventory in the “Explanation of boundary choice where the inventory boundary differs from the city boundary” field.

If Yes or In progress to 4.0:

4.3 Please give the name of the primary protocol, standard, or methodology you have used to calculate your city’s city-wide GHG emissions.

Question 4.3 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

In the ORS, you will see a list of methodologies developed by third parties. Please select the primary methodology that you followed in measuring greenhouse gas emissions for your community. If you do not see your chosen methodology reflected in the list please select “Other” and describe your methodology.

The values provided are:

• Global Protocol for Community Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories (GPC);
• International Standard for Determining Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Cities (UNEP and World Bank);
• 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories;
• U.S. Community Protocol for Accounting and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (ICLEI);
• Regional or country specific methodology;
• City specific methodology;
• Other.

Please select “Other” if you use a proprietary methodology or a third party methodology that you do not see listed here. Enter the name of the methodology in the text box provided.

In the “Comment” field please provide more detail on the methodology used on which you base the majority of your calculations or whether you utilized a combination of protocols.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Local governments may use existing GHG emissions inventory reporting protocols and tools available from GCoM partners or other bespoke tools, as long as all mandatory information outlined in the GCoM framework are provided. Cities will also be asked to report their summary emissions data in the format of the new Common Reporting Framework (CRF), to encourage standard reporting of emissions data.

The city-wide GHG emissions inventory shall report emissions occurring from different sectors as well as distinguish between direct and indirect emissions. This is aligned with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, as well as some other commonly used GHG accounting and reporting frameworks.

If Yes to 4.0 and GPC selected in 4.3:

4.3a The Global Covenant of Mayors requires committed cities to report their inventories in the format of the new Common Reporting Framework (CRF), to encourage standard reporting of emissions data. If your city is reporting an updated inventory, we encourage reporting this in the CRF format, for which guidance can be found in the link below. Would you like to report your inventory in the CRF format or continue to report in the GPC format? Please ensure you respond to this question in order for the correct emissions breakdown questions to be displayed.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes - use the CRF format
• No - continue to use the GPC format

Question 4.3a is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Local governments may use existing GHG emissions inventory reporting protocols and tools available from GCoM partners or other bespoke tools, as long as all mandatory information outlined in the GCoM framework are provided. Cities will also be asked to report their summary emissions data in the format of the new Common Reporting Framework (CRF), to encourage standard reporting of emissions data.

The city-wide GHG emissions inventory shall report emissions occurring from different sectors as well as distinguish between direct and indirect emissions. This is aligned with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, as well as some other commonly used GHG accounting and reporting frameworks.

If Yes or In progress to 4.0:

4.4 Which gases are included in your city-wide emissions inventory?

Response Options

Select all that apply:

• CO2
• CH4
• N2O
• HFCs
• PFCs
• SF6
• NF3

Question 4.4 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

The inventory shall quantify emissions of the following gases: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). All GHG emissions data should be reported as metric tonnes of each gas, and/or metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent (CO2e).

Guidance

The list consists of the main greenhouse gases defined by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), as well as nitrogen trifluoride (NF3).

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

If Yes to 4.0:

4.5 Please attach your city-wide inventory in Excel or other spreadsheet format and provide additional details on the inventory calculation methods in the table below.

If you have an inventory in the format of the GPC, please attach it below. If you are using the ClearPath tool, please attach both extracts in the table below. If your inventory is not in the format of the GPC, you can also attach it below.

Question 4.5 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Please complete the following table.You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

[Add Row]

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Emission sources

Local governments shall report GHG emissions from at least three main sectors, namely stationary energy, transportation, and waste. Additionally, local governments shall report GHG emissions from energy generation activities, but to avoid double counting, these shall not form part of the GHG emissions inventory total. Local governments shall consider all categories of emission sources and report all emissions that are significant. Exclusion of emission sources shall be disclosed and justified.

Notation Keys

Notation keys may be used to accommodate limitations in data availability and differences in emission sources between local governments. Where notation keys are used, an accompanying explanation shall be provided.

The following are the descriptions on how to use the notation keys:

• “NO” (not occurring): An activity or process does not occur or exist within the city. This notation key may also be used for insignificant sources.
• “IE” (included elsewhere): GHG emissions for this activity are estimated and presented in another category in the same inventory, stating where it is added. This notation key may be used where it is difficult to disaggregate data into multiple sub-sectors.
• “NE” (not estimated): GHG emissions occur but have not been estimated or reported, with a justification why.
• “C” (confidential): GHG emissions which could lead to the disclosure of confidential information, and as such are not reported publicly.

Activity Data and Emission Factors

All relevant activity data, emission factors, data sources, methodologies, assumptions, exclusions and deviations shall be documented and reported for all sources of emissions, disaggregated by activity/fuel type. Local governments shall account for emissions of the following gases: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and report them in metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent (CO2e), and by individual GHG where possible.

Tools to compile your inventory

Various tools have been produced to help cities develop a city-wide inventory in the format of a GPC, CDP recommends the CIRIS GPC reporting tool (City Inventory Reporting and Information System) which you can use to enter your breakdown of fuel use and emissions by subsector and scope according to the requirements of the GPC, or the ClearPath tool to report their GPC inventories

Using ClearPath

ClearPath is ICLEI’s online GHG inventory tool for local governments worldwide. Cities using the ClearPath tool can report their GPC inventories through the CDP platform by following the instructions below.

In the ClearPath tool, please click on the ‘Reports’ tab to access your data summary reports and extract your inventory data in in .xls format. You will have the option of exporting your GPC inventory in various formats, identify the two formats detailed below and click on ‘export’ on the far right of the table to start the downloading process (see screenshot below).

Reports to extract:

• 'GPC overview’
• Detailed report’

These two reports contain the data points that will be checked against the Global Covenant of Mayors framework. Once extracted, please save the two reports onto your computer and attach them to the table.

Inventory format

Please note Macro-Enabled workbooks that use the “.xlsm” format (e.g. CIRIS, earlier versions of the GPC reporting tool) should be saved as Excel workbooks “.xlsx” in order to be attached to the questionnaire.

Guidance

If you have an inventory in the format of the GPC, please attach it below. You can download the GPC Reporting Tool (CIRIS) here. If you are using the ClearPath tool, please attach both extracts in the table below. If your inventory is not in the format of a GPC, you can also attach it below.

Please note Macro-Enabled workbooks that use the “.xlsm” format (e.g. CIRIS, earlier versions of the GPC reporting tool) should be saved as Excel workbooks “.xlsx” in order to be attached to the questionnaire.

Emissions inventory format
Select the format of your inventory from the options provided in the drop down menu.

Document title and attachment
Provide the title of your emissions inventory. Use this field to attach your city’s inventory. You can do this by clicking “Chose file”, navigating to the inventory file and clicking “Attach”.

Emissions factors used

Please select which emissions factors are used in the city-wide emissions inventory. An emission factor is a representative value that attempts to relate the quantity of a pollutant released to the atmosphere with an activity associated with the release of that pollutant.

Global Warming Potential (select relevant IPCC Assessment Report)

Please select which IPCC Assessment Report Global Warming Potential values have been used in the city-wide emissions inventory. Global warming potential (GWP) is a measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas traps in the atmosphere up to a specific time horizon, relative to carbon dioxide.

Please select if these additional sectors are included in the inventory

Please identify if any of the following optional additional sectors have been included in the calculation of your city-wide emissions inventory.

Population in inventory year

Overall level of confidence
Please select the level of confidence associated with your total emissions figure.

• High – select high if your inventory has a high level of accuracy
• Medium – select medium if your inventory has a medium level of accuracy
• Low – select low if your inventory has a low level of accuracy

Comment on level of confidence
Use this text box to comment on your selection in the Level of confidence drop down

If Yes – use the CRF format is selected in 4.3a OR any selection other than Global Protocol for Community Scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories is selected in 4.3:

4.6a The Global Covenant of Mayors requires committed cities to report their inventories in the format of the new Common Reporting Framework, to encourage standard reporting of emissions data. Please provide a breakdown of your city-wide emissions by sector and sub-sector in the table below. Where emissions data is not available, please use the relevant notation keys to explain the reason why.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Question 4.6a is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Cities will also be asked to report their summary emissions data in the format of the new Common Reporting Framework (CRF), to encourage standard reporting of emissions data.

Emission sources

Local governments shall report GHG emissions from at least three main sectors, namely stationary energy, transportation, and waste. Additionally, local governments shall report GHG emissions from energy generation activities, but to avoid double counting, these shall not form part of the GHG emissions inventory total. Local governments shall consider all categories of emission sources and report all emissions that are significant. Exclusion of emission sources shall be disclosed and justified.

Notation Keys

Notation keys may be used to accommodate limitations in data availability and differences in emission sources between local governments. Where notation keys are used, an accompanying explanation shall be provided.

The following are the descriptions on how to use the notation keys:

• “NO” (not occurring): An activity or process does not occur or exist within the city. This notation key may also be used for insignificant sources.
• "E” (included elsewhere): GHG emissions for this activity are estimated and presented in another category in the same inventory, stating where it is added. This notation key may be used where it is difficult to disaggregate data into multiple sub-sectors.
• “NE” (not estimated): GHG emissions occur but have not been estimated or reported, with a justification why.
• "C” (confidential): GHG emissions which could lead to the disclosure of confidential information, and as such are not reported publicly.

If Global Protocol for Community Scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories is selected in 4.3 and No – continue reporting using the GPC format to 4.3a:

4.6b Please provide a summary of emissions by sector and scope as defined in the Global Protocol for Community Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories (GPC) in the table below.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Question 4.6b is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

The GPC standard classifies GHG emissions into “scopes,” depending on where they physically occur, and into six main sectors, which are then broken down by sub-sectors. If you have chosen to report using the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC), (WRI, C40 and ICLEI), please use the embedded table to disaggregate and report your emissions by sector and by scope, as according to table 4.2 of the GPC:

Sector and Scope (GPC reference number)
Please fill in every row of the table with the relevant emissions. Remember to only report data for the 12 month time-period selected in Q 4.1.

• Stationary Energy: energy use – Scope 1 (I.X.1);
• Stationary Energy: energy use – Scope 2 (I.X.2);
• Stationary Energy: energy use – Scope 3 (I.X.3);
• Stationary Energy: energy generation supplied to the grid – Scope 1 (I.4.4);
• Transportation – Scope 1 (II.X.1);
• Transportation – Scope 2 (II.X.2);
• Transportation – Scope 3 (II.X.3);
• Waste: waste generated within the city boundary – Scope 1 (III.X.1);
• Waste: waste generated within the city boundary – Scope 3 (III.X.2);
• Waste: waste generated outside the city boundary – Scope 1 (III.X.3);
• Industrial Processes and Product Use – Scope 1 (IV);
• Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use – Scope 1 (V);
• TOTAL Scope 1 (Territorial emissions);
• TOTAL Scope 2 emissions;
• TOTAL Scope 3 emissions;
• TOTAL BASIC emissions;
• TOTAL BASIC and BASIC+ emissions.

- ‘BASIC’ emissions includes scope 1 and scope 2 emissions from stationary energy and transportation, as well as scope 1 and scope 3 emissions from waste.
- ‘BASIC+’ additionally includes emissions from IPPU and AFOLU and transboundary transportation (scope 3 'energy use' and 'transportation').

Emissions (Metric Tonnes CO2e)
Enter the corresponding quantity of emissions in metric tonnes CO2e. If there are no emissions occuring within your city relating to a specific sector/scope, please indicate this with a 0.

Where data is not available, please explain why

Use this field to indicate why emissions data is not provided. This could be due to a lack of available information or due to the scope of the inventory.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Emission sources

Local governments shall report GHG emissions from at least three main sectors, namely stationary energy, transportation, and waste. Additionally, local governments shall report GHG emissions from energy generation activities, but to avoid double counting, these shall not form part of the GHG emissions inventory total. Local governments shall consider all categories of emission sources and report all emissions that are significant. Exclusion of emission sources shall be disclosed and justified.

Notation Keys

Notation keys may be used to accommodate limitations in data availability and differences in emission sources between local governments. Where notation keys are used, an accompanying explanation shall be provided.

The following are the descriptions on how to use the notation keys:

• “NO” (not occurring): An activity or process does not occur or exist within the city. This notation key may also be used for insignificant sources.
• "E” (included elsewhere): GHG emissions for this activity are estimated and presented in another category in the same inventory, stating where it is added. This notation key may be used where it is difficult to disaggregate data into multiple sub-sectors.
• “NE” (not estimated): GHG emissions occur but have not been estimated or reported, with a justification why.
• "C” (confidential): GHG emissions which could lead to the disclosure of confidential information, and as such are not reported publicly.

If any methodology other than GPC is selected in 4.3 and if Yes selected in response to 4.0:

4.6c Please provide a breakdown of your GHG emissions by scope. Where values are not available, please use the comment field to indicate the reason why.

Please note this question is not relevant for the Global Covenant of Mayors and One Planet City Challenge. If you are participating in either of these initiatives, please respond to 4.6a or 4.6b.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

If you categorize your emissions by scope, please enter the appropriate figures for your Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. Where values are not available, please use the comment field to indicate the reason why.

For example, if your city has only calculated scope 1 emissions, provide this in rows 1, 2 and 3, and leave scope 2 and 3 emissions blank.

Scope
This table question breaks down emissions into scope 1, 2 and scope 3. Scope 1 emissions are further split into emissions excluding grid-supplied energy generation and emissions exclusively from grid-supplied energy generation within your city boundaries. For more information on 'scopes' consult the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories (GPC), (WRI, C40 and ICLEI).

Metric tonnes CO2e
Your answers will be numeric entries (metric tonnes of CO2e) in the second field. If you do not break down your scope 1 emissions in this way, then please still fill in your “total scope 1 emissions” in this row.

Level of confidence
Please select the level of confidence associated with your total emissions figure.

• High – select high if your scope breakdown has a high level of accuracy
• Medium – select medium if your scope breakdown has a medium level of accuracy
• Low – select low if your scope breakdown has a low level of accuracy

Comments
If you do not have the full breakdown of your city’s emissions by scope, please use the comments field to indicate this, and any reasoning you may have.

If 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories or International Standard for Determining Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Cities (UNEP and World Bank) is selected in 4.3 and if Yes selected in response to 4.0:

4.6d Where it will facilitate a greater understanding of your city-wide emissions, please provide a breakdown of these emissions by IPCC sector in the table below.

Please note this question is not relevant for the Global Covenant of Mayors and One Planet City Challenge. If you are participating in either of these initiatives, please respond to 4.6a or 4.6b.

Response Options

Please complete the following table.You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

Guidance

The purpose of this question is to understand the brekadown of your city's emissions by sector, as defined by the IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.

You are provided with a table in the ORS to structure your repsonse. Using the 'Add row' function in this table allows you to report your city's emisisons breakdown using multiple sectors and scopes.

IPCC Sector: Please select the relevant sector as defined by the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories:

• Energy
• Industrial Processes and Product Use (IPPU)
• Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)
• Waste
• Other

Sector: Please indicate the relevant GHG emissions sub-sector from the drop down options

Scope: Please indicate the scope considered for each sector

Emissions: Emissions associated with that sector

Example response

For explanatory purposes, a sample answer to this question is included below.

If U.S. Community Protocol for Accounting and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (ICLEI) is selected in 4.3 and if Yes selected in response to 4.0:

4.6e Where it will facilitate a greater understanding of your city-wide emissions, please provide a breakdown of these emissions by the US Community Protocol sources.

Please note this question is not relevant for the Global Covenant of Mayors and One Planet City Challenge. If you are participating in either of these initiatives, please respond to 4.6a or 4.6b.

Response Options

Please complete the following table.You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

Guidance

The purpose of this question is to understand the breakdown of your city's emissions by source. You are provided with a table in the ORS to structure your response. Using the 'Add row' function in this table allows you to report your city's emissions breakdown using multiple sectors and scopes.

U.S. Community Protocol Sources: Please select the relevant sector as defined by the U.S. Community Protocol for Accounting and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (ICLEI):

• Built Environment
• Transportation and Other Mobile Sources
• Solid Waste
• Wastewater and Water
• Agricultural Livestock
• Upstream Impacts of Community-Wide Activities

Sector: Please indicate the relevant GHG emissions sub-sector from the drop down options

Scope: Please indicate the scope considered for each sector

Emissions: Emissions associated with that sector

Example response

For explanatory purposes, a sample answer to this question is included below.

If Regional or country specific methodology, City specific methodology or Other is selected in 4.3 and if Yes selected in response to 4.0:

4.6f Where it will facilitate a greater understanding of your city-wide emissions, please provide a breakdown of these emissions by end user (buildings, water, waste, transport), economic sector (residential, commercial, industrial, institutional), or any other classification system used in your city.

Please note this question is not relevant for the Global Covenant of Mayors and One Planet City Challenge. If you are participating in either of these initiatives, please respond to 4.6a or 4.6b.

Response Options

Please complete the following table.You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

Guidance

The purpose of this question is to learn more about how your city government breaks down emissions, which can be valuable information for comparative understanding between cities. Please note that this question is flexible to accommodate many of the different kinds of categories used by cities.

You are provided with a table in the ORS to structure your response. Examples of how your city might characterize and differentiate emissions are listed below and also shown in an example table:

Source: Please indicate the source of emissions, for example: buildings, transport, water utilities, wastewater utilities, etc. using the relevant classification system as instructed by your inventory methodology.

Sector: Please indicate which the relevant GHG emissions sector from the drop down options

Scope: please indicate the scope considered for each sector

Emissions: emissions associated with that sector

Example response

For explanatory purposes, a sample answer to this question is included below.

If Yes to 4.0:

4.7 If the submitted GHG inventory is baseline inventory for target setting, please provide the Baseline Synthesis Report and stakeholder consultation process and results to this inventory.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

If Yes to 4.0

4.8 Please indicate if your city-wide emissions have increased, decreased, or stayed the same since your last emissions inventory, and describe why.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

The purpose of this table question is to understand the change in your emissions over time and the factors which have led to that change. Changes in emissions could be due to emissions reduction actions, changes to your electricity mix, changes in methodology etc.

In the ‘Change in emissions’ field, please select how your emissions have changed compared to the emissions you reported last time:

• Increased;
• Decreased;
• Stayed the same;
• This is our first year of calculation;
• Do not know

Reason for change
Please select from the drop down menu to indicate some of the reasons you have identified that led to the change in emissions.

For example, if you previously reported emissions from 2012 and you are now reporting emissions from 2014 please explain any material difference in the figures. For instance, your city may have changed the emissions accounting methodology which may have affected the figures.

Please explain and quantify changes in emissions
Please provide more information or context on the reasons for change that you have selected. Please include the percentage or absolute amount of emissions that have changed since your last inventory. If the change in emissions is due to several factors, please select the reason for the most significant change and use this column to explain any other factors.

In cases where there is no change from data previously reported indicate that there is no change and why.

Example response

For explanatory purposes, a sample answer to this question is included below.

If Yes to 4.0:

4.9 Does your city have a consumption-based inventory to measure emissions from consumption of goods and services by your residents?

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

Consumption-based greenhouse gas accounting is an alternative to the sector and scope approach to measuring city-wide emissions. This focuses on the consumption of goods and services (such as food, clothing, electronic equipment, etc.) by residents of a city, and GHG emissions are reported by consumption category rather than GHG emission source category. Consumption-based GHG emissions of cities are often significantly larger than the those calculated under alternative methods that focus primarily on GHG emissions taking place within the city boundary. Select the relevant option to indicate whether your city has conducted a consumption-based emissions inventory.

City-wide External Verification

If Yes to 4.0:

4.11 Has the city-wide GHG emissions data you are currently reporting been externally verified or audited in part or in whole?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• In progress
• Intending to undertake in the next 2 years
• Not intending to undertake
• Do not know

Guidance

City governments (or any large organization) may see value in having external verification or auditing of their emissions and emission reduction efforts. This can ensure higher levels of quality control / quality assurance.

Please answer by selecting “Yes”; “In progress”; “Intending to undertake in the next two years”; “Not intending to undertake”; or “Don’t know” from the drop down menu provided.

For more information about external verification see chapter 12 of the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GPC)

If Yes to 4.11:

4.11a Please provide the following information about the city-wide emissions verification.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

This is a table question with fields to provide an opportunity to describe relevant information about this verification process with the following headings:

Name of verifier and attach verification certificate
List the names of organizations which have verified your greenhouse gas emissions and provide proof of verification in the form of an attachment. This function allows you to attach your verification certificate document. To attach a document click on ‘Choose file’, navigate to the file you want to upload and click ‘Open’. Once you can see the file name in the text field click ‘Attach & Save’ to attach the document.

Year of verification
State the year in which the verification occurred.

Please explain which parts of your inventory are not verified

If the inventory is only verified for certain sectors or scopes, please identify here which parts of the inventory are not covered by the verification. You can also use this field to provide additional details on your verification process, such as:

• Percentage of emission inventory audited
• Sections of emission inventory audited

If Not intending to undertake or Intending to undertake in the next 2 years to 4.11:

4.11b Please explain why your city-wide emissions inventory is not verified and describe any plans to verify your city-wide emissions in the future.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

Please give more details on whether and how you plan to verify your emissions related to your local government operations in the future by selecting an option from the drop down options in the “Reason” field; providing a comment on this selection in the “Comments” field.

Historical emissions inventories

4.12 Please provide details on any historical and base year city-wide emissions inventories your city has, in order to allow assessment of targets in the table below.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

Guidance

Please use the table to provide details on any historical emissions inventories your city may have, including a base year inventory where possible. The base year inventory should detail emissions by source within the city boundary to allow an understanding of the emissions in the base year, which are especially important in analyzing sector specific emissions reductions targets and how far the city has reached in achieving those targets.

Please ensure each inventory covers an accounting period of 12-months, provide an indication of which scopes are covered by the inventory and which methodology was used to develop the inventory. Please ensure the inventory document is attached in Excel format.

Re-stating previous emissions inventories

If Yes to 4.0:

4.13 Since your last submission, have you needed to recalculate any past city-wide GHG emission inventories previously reported to CDP?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No
• Do not know

Guidance

This question gives cities the opportunity to update previously submitted emissions figures.

All emissions over time should be estimated consistently, which means that as far as possible, the time series should be calculated using the same methods, data sources and boundary definitions in all years. Using different methods, data or applying different boundaries in a time series may result in an unrepresentative change of figures, as a result of methodological refinements, rather than a real change in emissions or removals.

Cities may undergo significant changes, which will alter a city’s historical emissions profile and make meaningful comparisons over time difficult. In order to maintain consistency over time, emissions for previous years should be retroactively recalculated to reflect changes in the city that would otherwise compromise the consistency and relevance of the reported GHG emissions information.

If Yes to 4.13:

4.13a Please provide your city’s recalculated total city-wide emissions figures for any previous inventories along with Scope 1, 2 and 3 breakdowns where applicable.

Response Options

Please complete the following table.You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

[Add Row]

Guidance

Indicate the emissions 'scope' for which figures have been recalculated, as well as the inventory period, change in figures and methodology.

Attach the updated inventory and explain the reasoning and impact behind the recalculation.

For more details on recalculating emissions see chapter 11 of the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GPC)

Example response

For explanatory purposes, a sample answer to this question is included below.

5. Emissions Reduction

Mitigation Target setting

5.0 Do you have a GHG emissions reduction target in place at the city-wide level?

Question 5.0 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Select all that apply:

• Base year emissions (absolute) target
• Fixed level target
• Base year intensity target
• Baseline scenario (business as usual) target
• No target

Guidance

A GHG emissions reduction target is a commitment to reduce, or limit the increase of, GHG emissions or emissions intensity by a specified quantity, to be achieved by a future date. To respond to this question, please tick the box(es) to indicate the type(s) of city-wide emissions reduction target(s) your city currently has in place. Please note this question applies to community (city-wide) emission reduction targets only.
For more information on the definitions of each target type, please see the descriptions below, and refer to the Mitigation Goal Standard, developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI). If your city does not have an emissions reduction target for city-wide emissions, please only select “No target”.

Base year emissions (absolute) target
A base year emissions (absolute) target is a commitment to reduce or controls the increase of emissions by a specified quantity relative to a base year.

For example, a 25% reduction of absolute emissions from 1990 levels by 2020.

Fixed level target

Fixed level goals represent a reduction in emissions to an absolute emissions level by a target year. For example “to achieve 200Mt CO2e by 2020”. Carbon neutrality goals are the most common type of fixed level goal, for example: “to reach net zero emissions by 2050”.

Base year intensity target
A base year intensity target is a commitment to reduce a city’s emissions intensity (emissions per unit of another variable, typically GDP) by a specified quantity relative to a base year.

For example, a 40% reduction of emissions per GDP from 1990 levels by 2020.

Baseline scenario (business as usual) target
A baseline scenario (business as usual) target is a commitment to reduce emissions by a specified quantity relative to a projected emissions baseline scenario, also referred to as a business as usual scenario. A baseline scenario is a reference case that represents future events or conditions most likely to occur in the absence of activities taken to meet the mitigation goal.

For example, a 30% reduction from baseline scenario emissions in 2020.

No target
If your city does not currently have any emissions targets in place, please only select “No target”.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Please find below a breakdown of the information cities and local governments are asked to compile and report on as part of the GCoM new common reporting framework.

If “Base year emissions (absolute) target” is selected in 5.0:

5.0a Please provide details of your total city-wide base year emissions reduction (absolute) target. In addition, you may add rows to provide details of your sector-specific targets, by providing the base year emissions specific to that target.

Question 5.0a is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Please complete the following table.You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Please refer to the guidance of question 5.0 (emissions reduction target) to understand the requirements of the GCoM Common Reporting Framework.

Guidance

Please ensure to report long (2051+), medium (2026-2050) and short term (present-2025) targets if you have them.

Provide the details of your city’s base year emissions (absolute) target in the table provided under the following headings:

Sector
Please select ‘Total city-wide emissions’ to report the emissions reduction target for your total city-wide emissions inventory. If you have sector breakdowns of your city-wide emissions reduction target, please add a row and select the relevant sector.

Where sources differ from the inventory, identify and explain these additions / exclusions

Please use this field to explain any additional inclusions or exclusions in the target sectors in comparison with the inventory sectors.

Boundary of target relative to city boundary (reported in 0.1)

Indicate the boundary of your emissions reduction target relative to your city’s boundary (as reported in 0.1) by selecting the most applicable response from the following list of values:

• Same – covers entire city and nothing else
• Smaller – covers only part of the city
• Larger – covers the whole city and adjoining areas
• Partial – covers part of the city and adjoining areas

Base year
Please enter the appropriate year to the numerical field provided. Your base year (also known as the “representative year”) is the reference year from which your greenhouse gas reductions are measured. Please ensure the base year corresponds to the total emissions inventory if Total is selected in the sector field. If you are reporting a target for a specific sector of your local government inventory, please provide the base year for that sector.

Year of target implementation
Please enter in numerical format the year in which your target came into effect or was approved by the local government. This differs from your base year which is used as a reference year from which to measure or compare emissions.

Base year emissions (metric tonnes CO2e)

Please enter the numerical value for the emissions in your base year, without commas. Your base emissions are the greenhouse gas emissions from your base year on which your target is based. Please ensure the base year emissions pertains to the total emissions inventory if Total is selected in the sector field. If you are reporting a target for a specific sector of your city-wide emissions inventory, please provide the base year emissions for that sector. Please ensure that the base year emissions correspond with the base year reported.

Example Response

For explanatory purposes, a sample answer to this question is included below.

If “Fixed level target” selected in 5.0:

5.0b Please provide details of your total fixed level target.

Question 5.0b is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Please complete the following table.You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

[Add Row]

Guidance

Please ensure to report long (2051+), medium (2026-2050) and short term (present-2025) targets if you have them.

Provide the details of your city’s fixed level emissions reduction target in the table provided under the following headings:

Sector
Please select ‘Total city-wide emissions’ to report the emissions reduction target for your total city-wide emissions inventory. If you have sector breakdowns of your city-wide emissions reduction target, please add a row and select the relevant sector.

Where sources differ from the inventory, identify and explain these additions / exclusions

Please use this field to explain any additional inclusions or exclusions in the target sectors in comparison with the inventory sectors.

Boundary of target relative to city boundary (reported in 0.1)

Indicate the boundary of your emissions reduction target relative to your city’s boundary (as reported in 0.1) by selecting the most applicable response from the following list of values:

• Same – covers entire city and nothing else
• Smaller – covers only part of the city
• Larger – covers the whole city and adjoining areas
• Partial – covers part of the city and adjoining areas

Year of target implementation

Please enter in numerical format the year in which your target came into effect or was approved by the local government. This differs from your base year which is used as a reference year from which to measure or compare emissions.

Target year

Please indicate to which sector(s) the target applies

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Please refer to the guidance of question 5.0 (emissions reduction target) to understand the requirements of the GCoM Common Reporting Framework.

Example Response

For explanatory purposes, a sample answer to this question is included below.

If “Base year intensity target” selected in 5.0:

5.0c Please provide details of your total city-wide base year intensity target. An intensity target is usually measured per capita or per unit GDP. If you have an absolute emissions reduction target, please select “Base year emissions (absolute) target” in question 5.0.

Question 5.0c is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

[Add Row]

Guidance

Please ensure to report long (2051+), medium (2026-2050) and short term (present-2025) targets if you have them.

Provide the details of your city’s base year emissions (absolute) target in the table provided under the following headings:

Sector
Please select total emissions in order to report the emissions reduction target for your total city-wide emissions inventory. If you have sector breakdowns of your city-wide emissions reduction target, please add a row and select the relevant sector.

Where sources differ from the inventory, identify and explain these additions / exclusions

Please use this field to explain any additional inclusions or exclusions in the target sectors in comparison with the inventory sectors.

Boundary of target relative to city boundary (reported in 0.1)

Indicate the boundary of your emissions reduction target relative to your city’s boundary (as reported in 0.1) by selecting the most applicable response from the following list of values:

• Same – covers entire city and nothing else
• Smaller – covers only part of the city
• Larger – covers the whole city and adjoining areas
• Partial – covers part of the city and adjoining areas

Base year

Please enter the appropriate year to the numerical field provided. Your base year in which your base year (also known as “representative year”) is the reference year from which your greenhouse gas reductions are measured. Please ensure the base year corresponds to the total emissions inventory if Total is selected in the sector field. If you are reporting a target for a specific sector of your local government inventory, please provide the base year for that sector.

Year of target implementation
Please enter in numerical format the year in which your target was established or came into effect. This differs from your base year which is used as a reference year from which to measure or compare emissions.

Intensity unit (Emissions per)

Please define the variable used in your city’s intensity target by selecting the relevant variable from the drop down options (either metric tonnes CO2e per capita, or metric tonnes CO2e per GDP). If your city uses a variable which is not listed, please select “Other” and define the variable in the box provided. Emissions intensity refers to emissions per unit of another variable, which is typically economic output, such as GDP, but may also be population, energy use, or a different variable.

Base year emissions per intensity unit (metric tonnes CO2e)
Please enter the numerical value of your base year emissions, without commas. Your base year emissions are the greenhouse gas emissions from your base year on which your target is based. Please ensure the base year emissions corresponds to the total emissions inventory if Total is selected in the sector field. If you are reporting a target for a specific sector of your city-wide emissions inventory, please provide the base year emissions for that sector. Please ensure that the base year emissions correspond with the base year reported.

Base year absolute emissions (metric tonnes CO2e)

Please enter the numerical value of your base year absolute emissions, without commas. Your base year emissions are the greenhouse gas emissions from your base year on which your target is based. Please ensure the base year emissions corresponds to the total emissions inventory if Total is selected in the sector field. If you are reporting a target for a specific sector of your city-wide emissions inventory, please provide the base year emissions for that sector. Please ensure that the base year emissions correspond with the base year reported.

Percentage reduction target in emissions intensity
Please enter the numerical value of your percentage reduction target, without commas and without the percentage symbol (%). If your target is not currently expressed as a percentage, please convert it into this format (for example an emissions reduction in metric tonnes CO2e per intensity metric can be converted into a percentage reduction relative to the base year). If this is not possible, please note your target reduction and other relevant detail in the Comment field for this question.

Target year
Please enter in numerical form the year by which you anticipate achieving your goal. Please note that the target year cannot be in the past.

Target year absolute emissions (metric tonnes CO2e)

Please indicate the absolute emissions expected in the target year when the target is achieved. For example, if a 20% reduction on 2000000 tC02e is the goal for 2030, then in 2030 the expected absolute emissions would be 1600000 tC02e.

Percentage of target achieved so far
Please enter a numerical value for the percentage of your emissions reduction target that you have achieved since the ‘Target year start’, without commas and without the percentage symbol (%).State the target’s percentage completion (in terms of emissions) against the base year emissions. For example, if your target is to reduce your emissions by 10% by 2020 compared with a 2010 base year, and in your reporting year your emissions had reduced by 3% compared to that target base year, your target is 30% complete ((3/10) x 100). If you have met your target in the reporting year, indicate 100% complete. It is not possible to put values greater than 100% in this field; however if you have exceeded your target, explain in the Comment field.

If you set an absolute target to stabilize your greenhouse gas emissions against a base year, enter 0 (zero) until the target year. For example, if a city sets an absolute target to cap emissions using a 2008 base year and a 2019 target year. For reporting years until 2019, they would enter 0 (zero) in this column, before entering 100% in 2019 if they have achieved their target.

Does this target align with the global 1.5-2°C pathway set out in the Paris Agreement?

The Paris agreement set out a pathway to keep global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees. Many cities are developing targets in line with the Paris agreement goals, such as New York City's 80% by 2050 reduction target. If your city's target is aligned with the Paris agreement goals, please select the relevant option from the list.

Please indicate to which sector(s) the target applies

Please use this field to select all sectors that are covered under the target

Does this target align to a requirement from a higher level of sub-national government?

Please select the relevant option from the list to indicate whether the target aligns with a requirement set by county, state or regional government.

Please describe your target. If your country has an NDC and your city’s target is less ambitious than the NDC, please explain why

Describe your target in this field and where your city's target is less ambitious than your country's NDC, please explain why.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Please refer to the guidance of question 5.0 (emissions reduction target) to understand the requirements of the GCoM Common Reporting Framework.

Example Response

For explanatory purposes, a sample answer to this question is included below.

If “Baseline scenario (business as usual) target” is selected in response to 5.0:

5.0d Please provide details of your total city-wide baseline scenario target, including projected business as usual emissions.

Question 5.0d is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Response Options

Please complete the following table.The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

[Add Row]

Guidance

Please ensure to report long (2051+), medium (2026-2050) and short term (present-2025) targets if you have them.

Provide the details of your city’s base year emissions (absolute) target in the table provided under the following headings:

Sector
Please select total emissions in order to report the emissions reduction target for your total city-wide emissions inventory. If you have sector breakdowns of your city-wide emissions reduction target, please add a row and select the relevant sector.

Where sources differ from the inventory, identify and explain these additions / exclusions

Please use this field to explain any additional inclusions or exclusions in the target sectors in comparison with the inventory sectors.

Boundary of target relative to city boundary (reported in 0.1)

Indicate the boundary of your emissions reduction target relative to your city’s boundary (as reported in 0.1) by selecting the most applicable response from the following list of values:

• Same – covers entire city and nothing else
• Smaller – covers only part of the city
• Larger – covers the whole city and adjoining areas
• Partial – covers part of the city and adjoining areas

Base year

Please enter the appropriate year to the numerical field provided. Your base year (also known as a “representative year”) is the reference year from which your greenhouse gas reductions are measured. Please ensure the base year corresponds to the total emissions inventory if Total is selected in the sector field. If you are reporting a target for a specific sector of your local government inventory, please provide the baseline year for that sector.

Year of target implementation

Please enter in numerical format the year in which your target was established or came into effect. This differs from your base year which is used as a reference year from which to measure or compare emissions.

Base year emissions (metric tonnes CO2e)
Please enter the numerical value of your base emissions, without commas. Your base emissions are the greenhouse gas emissions from your base year on which your target is based. Please ensure the base year emissions corresponds to the total emissions inventory if Total is selected in the sector field. If you are reporting a target for a specific sector of your city-wide emissions inventory, please provide the base year emissions for that sector. Please ensure that the base year emissions correspond with the base year reported.

Target year
Please enter in numerical form the year by which you anticipate achieving your goal. Please note that the target year cannot be in the past.

Estimated business as usual absolute emissions in target year (metric tonnes CO2e)
Please indicate the estimated business as usual emissions figure in the target year (defined in the previous field). A baseline scenario is a reference case that represents the events or conditions most likely to occur in the absence of activities taken to meet a mitigation target.

Percentage reduction target from business as usual
Please enter the percentage reduction relative to your city’s baseline scenario emissions (reported in ‘base year emissions’). This should not include commas or the percentage symbol (%).State the target’s percentage completion (in terms of emissions) against the base year emissions. For example, if your target is to reduce your emissions by 10% by 2020 compared with a 2010 base year, and in your reporting year your emissions had reduced by 3% compared to that target base year, your target is 30% complete ((3/10) x 100). If you have met your target in the reporting year, indicate 100% complete. It is not possible to put values greater than 100% in this field; however if you have exceeded your target, explain in the Comment field.

If you set an absolute target to stabilize your greenhouse gas emissions against a base year, enter 0 (zero) until the target year. For example, if a city sets an absolute target to cap emissions using a 2008 base year and a 2019 target year. For reporting years until 2019, they would enter 0 (zero) in this column, before entering 100% in 2019 if they have achieved their target.

Percentage of target achieved so far
Please enter a numerical value for the percentage of your emissions reduction target that you have achieved since the ‘Target year start’, without commas and without the percentage symbol (%).

Does this target align with the global 1.5-2°C pathway set out in the Paris Agreement?

The Paris agreement set out a pathway to keep global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees. Many cities are developing targets in line with the Paris agreement goals, such as New York City's 80% by 2050 reduction target. If your city's target is aligned with the Paris agreement goals, please select the relevant option from the list.

Please describe the target and the modelling methodology(ies) and parameters used to define it

Please describe the modelling methodologies used to develop your business as usual trajectory in order to better understand the variables and assumptions involved in the business as usual pathway.

Please indicate to which sector(s) the target applies

Please use this field to select all sectors that are covered under the target

Does this target align to a requirement from a higher level of sub-national government?

Please select the relevant option from the list to indicate whether the target aligns with a requirement set by county, state or regional government.

Please describe your target. If your country has an NDC and your city’s target is less ambitious than the NDC, please explain why

Describe your target in this field and where your city's target is less ambitious than your country's NDC, please explain why.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Please refer to the guidance of question 5.0 (emissions reduction target) to understand the requirements of the GCoM Common Reporting Framework.

Example Response

For explanatory purposes, a sample answer to this question is included below.

If "No target" is selected in 5.0:

5.0e Please explain why you do not have a city-wide emissions reduction target and any plans to set one in the future.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

Please give more details on why you do not have a city-wide or local government emissions target by selecting a suitable option from the drop down options in the “Reason” field; providing a comment on this selection in the “Comments” field.

If Yes – 1.5 or Yes – 2°c is selected in “Does this target align…” in 5.0a, 5.0b, 5.0c or 5.0d:

5.1 Please describe how the target(s) reported above align with the global 1.5-2°c pathway set out in the Paris agreement.

Response Options

This is an open text question.

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Guidance

Please use this field to describe the methodologies used to develop your city's emissions reduction target, and indicate any methodologies used to ensure the target is aligned with the Paris agreement goals of keeping global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees.

If any selection except No target in 5.0:

5.2 Is your city-wide emissions reduction target(s) conditional on the success of an externality or component of policy outside of your control?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No
• Do not know

Question 5.2 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Please refer to the guidance of question 5.0 (emissions reduction target) to understand the requirements of the GCoM Common Reporting Framework.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

If Yes to 5.2:

5.2a Please identify and describe the conditional components of your city-wide emissions reduction target(s).

Response Options

This is an open text question.

Please note that when copying from another document into the disclosure platform, formatting is not retained.

Question 5.2a is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

GCom Common Reporting Framework

Please refer to the guidance of question 5.0 (emissions reduction target) to understand the requirements of the GCoM Common Reporting Framework.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

If any selection except No target in 5.0:

5.3 Does your city-wide emissions reduction target(s) account for the use of transferable emissions units?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No
• Do not know

Question 5.3 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

GCom Common Reporting Framework

Please refer to the guidance of question 5.0 (emissions reduction target) to understand the requirements of the GCoM Common Reporting Framework.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

If Yes to 5.3:

5.3a Please provide details on the use of transferable emissions.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

Guidance

A carbon offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for or to offset an emission made elsewhere.

If offset credits are generated in the geographic boundary and sold, these should be documented separately from emissions reporting. In addition, any offsets purchased from outside the geographic boundary should be separately reported and not “netted” or deducted from the reported inventory results.

Question 5.3a is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

GCom Common Reporting Framework

Please refer to the guidance of question 5.0 (emissions reduction target) to understand the requirements of the GCoM Common Reporting Framework.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Mitigation Actions

5.4 Describe the anticipated outcomes of the most impactful mitigation actions your city is currently undertaking; the total cost of the action and how much is being funded by the local government.

Response Options

Please complete the following table.You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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These columns are additional to question 5.4 for ICLEI GCC cities

Question 5.4 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

GCom Common Reporting Framework

Please find below a breakdown of the information cities and local governments are asked to compile and report on as part of the GCoM new common reporting framework.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Guidance

This question requests information about the efforts you are undertaking to reduce community-wide emissions.

For example, a city may have multiple projects within the wider activity of improving buildings energy efficiency / retrofit measures, which may involve different forms of public/private partnership, different sectors, scope, costs or timescale. This question seeks to understand the details about emissions reduction projects which your city has, including the activities which they fall under, emissions reduction potential, timescale and other details.

Mitigation action
Individual actions fall within a broader group of activity. The list of activities is provided in Appendix E of the questionnaire. Please select the relevant actions that apply to your city from the drop down menu.

Action title

Use this text box to provide the name (if applicable) of the adaptation action or project your city is undertaking.

Means of implementation

Please select from the list to indicate how your city is planning to implement the specified action.

Implementation status
Please indicate the current status of the project by selecting from the following options:

• Scoping – if your city is in the process of developing a project plan, this is also known as the identification phase
• Pre-feasibility study – if your city is researching the feasibility of the project plan, this is known as the evaluate phase
• Pre-implementation – if your city has developed a project plan but not begun implementation, this is also known as the feasibility or definition phase
• Implementation – if the project has started implementation (execution)
• Operation – if the project is in full operation
• Implementation complete – if the project is complete
• Monitoring and reporting – if the project is complete and results are being measured

Estimated emissions reduction (metric tonnes CO2e)
Please enter the numerical value of the total cumulative anticipated emissions reductions as a result of the action in metric tonnes CO2e without commas and without unit symbols. This can be an estimate. If you prefer to report this information in amount of energy saved, please use the next field.

Energy savings (MWh)
Please enter the numerical value of the total cumulative anticipated energy savings in megawatt hours as a result of the action without commas and without unit symbols. This can be an estimate. If you prefer to report this information in amount of renewable energy produce, please use the next field.

Renewable energy production (MWh)
Please enter the numerical value of the total cumulative anticipated renewable energy generated in megawatt hours as a result of the action without commas and without unit symbols. This can be an estimate.

Timescale of reduction/savings/energy production
Select from the drop down menu the timescale for the estimated emissions reduction / energy savings / renewable production reported in the previous field. If the figure represents an annual reduction or production select “Per year”, or select “Projected lifetime” if it represents total emissions saved over the lifetime of the project. If the figure represents neither annual reduction or total lifetime emissions / energy saved, select ‘Other' and provide an explanation.

Co-benefit area

Actions taken to adapt to climate change can also provide additional areas of benefit for the city. Please select which areas other than reducing vulnerability are also improved as a result of the action.

Action description
The ORS provides a free text box for you to enter further information about your greenhouse gas reduction efforts. Text can be entered freely into this field but please keep this as concise as possible. Description of actions should include further details about: scope, costs, timescale and collaborators.

Finance status

Please select the relevant option to indicate what financing has been secured for this action. If the action has not secured full financing, please report the project in the opportunities section under question 6.2.

Total cost of the project

Please provide the total expected cost of the project, in numbers with no delimiters. For example $600,000 should be written as 600000. Please ensure you are reporting using the currency selected in 0.4.

Total cost provided by the local government

Please provide the total cost provided by the local government, if any, in numbers with no delimiters. For example $600,000 should be written as 600000. Please ensure you are reporting using the currency selected in 0.4.

Primary fund source

Please select the relevant fund source providing the majority of funding for the project.

Web link to project

Provide a web link to the project website

Mitigation Planning

5.5 Does your city have a climate change mitigation or energy access plan for reducing city-wide GHG emissions?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• In progress
• Intending to undertake in the next 2 years
• Not intending to undertake
• Do not know

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Question 5.5 is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

GCoM Common Reporting Framework

Local governments shall develop plans for both climate change mitigation and adaptation (climate resilience), which may be presented in separate plans or an integrated plan. Local governments shall submit their climate action plans to GCoM within three years upon joining GCoM.

Please note that local governments may develop joint action plans with their neighbouring communities.

Guidance

Please indicate whether your city has a climate change action plan by selecting “Yes”; “In progress”; “Intending to undertake in the next 2 years”; “Not intending to undertake”; or “Don’t know” from the drop down menu provided.

Further to incorporating sustainability goals into the city’s master plan, this question explores whether your city has created a separate action plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This could for example include a plan for the local public transportation to cut GHG emissions by modernizing the bus fleet to hybrid vehicles. A climate action plan should include information about baseline emissions, target reductions, sectors of focus, stakeholder engagement, implementation and monitoring plans.

Example Responses

If you wish to see an example of a climate change action plan please refer to London’s which can be found here.

If Yes to 5.5:

5.5a Please attach your city’s climate change mitigation plan below. If your city has both action and energy access plans, please make sure to attach all relevant documents below.

This question is required for the assessment of your response for the WWF One Planet City Challenge.

Question 5.5a is required for the Global Covenant of Mayors. For more detailed information on the reporting requirements, please refer to the GCoM Guidance note.

Response Options

Please complete the following table.You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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GCom Common Reporting Framework

Please find below a breakdown of the information cities and local governments are asked to compile and report on as part of the GCoM new common reporting framework.

Guidance

If you have a climate action plan, please provide additional details about it in this question. Please indicate:

Publication title and attach the document
State the official name of your city’s climate action plan. Click on ‘Choose file’, navigate to the file you want to upload and click ‘Open’. Once you can see the file name in the text field click ‘Attach & Save’ to attach the document.

Year of approval from local government
Enter the year the plan was published and approved by the city as a numeric value.

Web link

Provide a web link to the climate action plan

Areas covered by action plan

Please select all the relevant areas from the list that are included in your city's action plan.

Boundary of assessment relative to city boundary (reported in 0.1)

Indicate the boundary of your city’s adaptation plan relative to your city’s boundary (as reported in 0.1) by selecting the most applicable response from the following list of values:

• Same – covers entire city and nothing else
• Smaller – covers only part of the city
• Larger – covers the whole city and adjoining areas
• Partial – covers part of the city and adjoining areas

If the city boundary is different from the plan boundary, please explain why and any areas/other cities excluded or included
Please explain your choice in the previous field. For example, if your city’s risk assessment covers only part of the city, please use this field to describe which areas your plan covers and the reason behind this.

Stage of implementation
Indicate the extent to which your city has implemented its climate change action plan by selecting the most applicable response from the following list of values:

• Plan in development – your jurisdiction has identified a vision and goals; and begun to organize resources to develop a plan;
• Plan developed but not implemented – plan to implement actions has been developed and implementation tools have been identified;
• Plan in implementation –if your jurisdiction has begun to implement actions from the climate action plan (execution);
• Implementation complete – if the actions identified in the plan have been fully implemented;
• Measurement in progress – if the project is complete and results are being measured;
• Plan update in progress – if your jurisdiction has begun to update the action plan based on the progress and success of actions that have been executed;
• Other.

Has your local government assessed the synergies, trade-offs, and co-benefits, if any, of the main mitigation and adaptation actions you identified?

Please select from the options to indicate whether your city has assessed the synergies, trade-offs, and co-benefits, of the main mitigation and adaptation actions identified in the plan. Click here to read more about how to identify potential interactions between climate adaptation and mitigation measures.

Comment or describe the synergies, trade-offs, and co-benefits of this interaction

Describe the interactions between adaptation and mitigation measures, and how these were assessed.

Has there been a stakeholder engagement plan to develop the plan?

Please describe the stakeholder engagement processes conducted during the development of the action plan, including stakeholders involved, how the relevant stakeholders were engaged and the results of the engagement.

Primary author of plan
Indicate the primary author responsible for the primary planning document to address climate adaptation in your jurisdiction by selecting the most applicable response from the following list of values:

• Dedicated city team
• Relevant city department
• Consultant
• International organization
• Community group
• Regional / state / provincial government
• National / central government
• Other

If Not intending to undertake, or Intending to undertake in the next 2 years to 5.5:

5.5b Please explain why you do not have a city climate change mitigation plan and any future plans to create one.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

In the first field, select from the following options in the drop-down menu the most appropriate reason for why you do not have or do not intend to have a climate change action plan:

• No plans yet to create an action plan;
• Resources lacking to create an action plan;
• Action plan in early stages of project planning;
• Action plan in progress;
• Lack of budget/resources;
• Other.

Please provide more information or context on the reason selected in the comment field. Such a description should include information about the practical barriers that impact each reason, or detail your progress in developing a plan and the areas likely to be incorporated within it.

6. Opportunities

Opportunities

6.0 Please indicate the opportunities your city has identified as a result of addressing climate change and describe how the city is positioning itself to take advantage of these opportunities.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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Guidance

Example Response

For explanatory purposes, a sample answer to this question is included below.

6.1 Does your city collaborate in voluntary partnership with businesses in your city on sustainability projects?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• In progress
• Intending to undertake in the next 2 years
• Not intending to undertake
• Do not know

Guidance

This question aims to understand how cities collaborate with businesses on sustainability issues. Some examples of collaboration can be found in the 2014 CDP Cities report, Protecting Our Capital.

Response
Please answer by selecting “Yes”; “In progress”; “Intending to undertake in the future”; “Not intending to undertake”; or “Don’t know” from the drop down menu provided.

If Yes to 6.1:

6.1a Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business in the table below.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

Guidance

Collaboration area

Please select an appropriate collaboration area or sector from the drop-down list that your city is collaborating with business in. Table rows can be added or deleted as needed to report multiple collaboration areas.

Description of collaboration

If you selected “Yes” as your response, please use this text box to describe what areas or projects your city works on with businesses.

6.2 List any emission reduction, adaptation, water related or resilience projects you have planned within your city for which you hope to attract financing, and provide details on the estimated costs and status of the project. If your city does not have any relevant projects, please select No relevant projects under Project Area.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

Guidance

The goal of this question is to understand what climate-change related projects your city is currently seeking external financing for from public or private institutions. These may be projects relating to renewable energy, sustainable transport, building or energy efficiency, waste, water or other climate-related areas. From the data gathered in this question, CDP aims to help cities improve access to financing for climate change-related projects.

Use the table in this question to list the different projects your city is looking to attract public or private sector finance for – you can add multiple projects by clicking ‘Add row’. If your city is not currently seeking financing on any relevant projects, please select “No relevant projects” in the first field.

Project area
Use the drop down options to select the project area that is closest to the project that your city is seeking financing for. If your city does not have any projects currently seeking financing, please select “None”.

Stage of project development
Please indicate the current status of the project by selecting from the following options:

• Scoping
• Pre-feasibility study
• Project feasibility
• Project structuring
• Transaction preparation
• Post implementation

Status of financing
Please indicate the status of the project’s financing by selecting from the following options:

• Project not financed and seeking partial financing – If the project is not funded and your city is seeking financing for part of the project. If your project is in this status, please indicate how much finance is being sought in these fields of the table.
• Project not financed and seeking full financing – if the project is not funded and seeking financing for the whole project. If your project is in this status, please indicate how much finance is being sought in these fields of the table.
• Project partially financed and seeking additional financing – if the project is partially financed, but your city is still seeking additional finance. If your project is in the status, please indicate how much finance has already been received and how much additional finance is being sought.
• Other (please specify)

Finance & Economic Opportunities

6.3 Has your City received/secured funding for any low carbon projects (e.g. energy efficiency, renewable energy, low emission vehicles, bus rapid transit, waste management) or climate adaptation projects from a development bank (e.g. World Bank, Asian Development Bank, etc.)?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No
• Do not know

6.4 Has your City established a fund to invest in energy efficiency, renewable energy or carbon reduction projects?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No
• Do not know

Guidance

Indicate whether your city has a dedicated fund for renewable energy or carbon reduction programs or services.

6.5 Does your City have its own credit rating?

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

International and domestic credit ratings and rating agencies are offered by third-party rating agencies such as Standard & Poor or Moody's. Municipal market participants rely heavily on these indicators of risk when they determine the relative value of municipal investments.

6.6 Are Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues incorporated into investment decisions of any of the city retirement funds?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No
• Do not know

6.7 How are investment decisions of the city retirement funds made?

Response Options

This is an open text question.

Please note that when copying from another document into the disclosure platform, formatting is not retained.

6.8 Which individuals in the city have responsibility for oversight and/or implementation of investment of the city retirement funds?

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

6.9 Has your City prepared a strategy for green growth?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No
• Do not know

Guidance

This question seeks to understand whether your city has a strategy in place to achieve economic growth and development through urban activities that reduce negative environmental externalities and the impact on natural resources and environmental services.

• “Green” refers to urban activities (public and private) that reduce negative environmental impact (land-use, transport, buildings, energy, waste, and water)
• “Growth” refers to GDP growth primarily, but also urban quality of life.

• Vancouver
• Copenhagen

6.11 How many people within your City are employed in green jobs/ industries?

Response Options

Numerical field.

Guidance

This question considers green growth strategies, including those meant to accelerate investment and job creation in the sustainability sector, encourage the growth of green enterprise districts or clusters, and quantify the economic benefit of climate action. If you do not know, please provide an estimate.

7. Local Government Emissions

The questions in this section refer to emissions associated with your local government operations (sometimes referred to as “corporate” or “municipal”) emissions.

Section Overview

The module gives you the opportunity to disclose your local government’s emissions inventory as well as some other metrics that will provide a holistic picture of your operations. Calculating an LGO inventory is a good first step into measuring emissions, as the data is more readily available than a city-wide inventory, hence many cities chose to calculate LGO emissions before developing a community inventory.

This section of the questionnaire is divided into 4 pages:

• Boundary and scope (Question 7.0 – 7.4): This page collects information on the approach taken for preparing your emissions inventory. Importantly this page also allows users to define the 12 month period for which data is reported – this period should be consistent throughout the inventory. Where data is not available for an entire 12 month period, please extrapolate your data to a 12 month period.
• Energy Data (Question 7.5): This page collects information on the energy purchased and consumed over the reporting year.
• GHG Emissions Data (Questions 7.6 - 7.8): This page collects information on the emissions released during the inventory year.
• External Verification (Question 7.9): The final page of the local government operations inventory collects information on verification of emissions data.

CDP recognizes that cities use different methodologies to measure their greenhouse gas emissions. As such, at this time CDP does not require cities to use a specific methodology to report to CDP - you may disclose an emissions inventory that has been calculated by any methodology. Please identify the methodology used at the appropriate place in the questionnaire.

CDP also recognizes that many cities have created their own proprietary methodologies for calculating greenhouse gas emissions. If your city fits into this category, please provide as much information as possible about the methods you have used to measure your emissions.

Please note that a metric tonne is equivalent to 2,204.6lbs. The “long ton”, a term generally used in Britain, is equivalent to 2,240lbs and the “short ton”, generally used in the USA, is equivalent to 2,000lbs. The CDP Cities questionnaire asks for CO2e measurements in metric tonnes.

For more information on any of the above considerations, please refer directly to the protocols listed in this section of the guidance document or contact [email protected].

Local Government Operations GHG Emissions Data

The questions in this section refer to emissions reduction targets and actions associated with your local government operations (sometimes referred to as "corporate" or "municipal") emissions.

7.0 Do you have an emissions inventory for your local government operations to report? Reporting a Local Government Operations emissions inventory is optional.

By selecting Yes below, you are indicating that you have fuel and/or greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data from your local government operations (sometimes referred to as ‘corporate’ or ‘municipal’ emissions) to report at this time.

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• In progress
• Not intending to undertake in the next 2 years
• Not intending to undertake

Guidance

The municipal or local government inventory is a subset within the city-wide inventory. City-wide emissions are designed to represent the total quantity of GHG emissions produced by your community (as defined by geographic boundaries) and will therefore include Government emissions which are emissions rising from the local authority’s own estate and operations. You will have the opportunity to describe the methodology or protocol utilized to measure your city’s emissions later in the questionnaire.

For more information on the difference between Government and Community emissions inventories, please see the following documents:

Local Government Operations Protocol (LGOP) for the Quantification and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories (Version 1.1) (a collaboration between The California Air Resources Board, The California Climate Action Registry, The Climate Registry, and ICLEI) International Local Government GHG Emissions Analysis Protocol (IEAP) developed by ICLEI Appendix B in the Global Protocol for Community-scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (WRI, C40 and ICLEI).

If Yes or In progress to 7.0:

7.1 Please state the dates of the accounting year or 12-month period for which you are reporting an emissions inventory for your local government operations.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

The ORS provides a drop-down calendar for you to enter the dates requested. Entries MUST be for a 12-month period. If you do not have data for the entire 12-month period, please extrapolate to 12 months please extrapolate to 12 months (by multiplying figures [12/x amount of months in inventory] * emissions figures).

If Yes or In progress to 7.0:

7.2 Please indicate the category that best describes the boundary of your local government operations emissions inventory.

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Departments, entities or companies over which operational control is exercised
• Departments, entities or companies over which financial control is exercised
• Other

Guidance

A drop-down list is provided with the following values:

• Departments, entities or companies over which operational control is exercised;
• Departments, entities or companies over which financial control is exercised;
• Other

The options allow for emissions to be captured from a ranging set of institutions, from government departments to quasi-governmental authorities, public corporations and special purpose vehicles. Further guidance on the suitability of these different methods is available in the Local Government Operations Protocol, the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol, and Appendix B of the Global Protocol for Community Scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories.

If none of the listed options describes your boundary, please select “other” from the drop down list. You will then be provided with a text box in which to describe your boundary.

If Yes or In progress to 7.0:

7.3 Please give the name of the primary protocol, standard, or methodology used to calculate your local government operations emissions inventory and attach your inventory using the attachment function.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

CDP recognizes that cities use different methodologies to measure their greenhouse gas emissions. As such, at this time CDP does not require cities to use a specific methodology to report local government emissions to CDP - you may disclose an emissions inventory that has been calculated by any methodology.

In the first field you will see a list of methodologies. Please select the methodology on which you base the majority of your calculations. The system will only let you select one methodology. If you do not see your chosen methodology reflected in the list please select “Other” and describe your methodology

• Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Public Sector Standard;
• International Emissions Analysis Protocol (ICLEI);
• ISO 14064;
• Local Government Operations Protocol (ICLEI / The Climate Registry / California Climate Action Registry / California Air Resources Board);
• Australian National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Measurement) Determination;
• Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories (GPC), (WRI, C40 and ICLEI);
• 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories;
• Other

You might have calculated your emissions using multiple methodologies or by slightly modifying an existing methodology. In the comment field, please detail how you have used multiple methodologies or how your city collects and manages data for your local government operations.

If Yes or In progress to 7.0:

7.4 Which gases are included in your emissions inventory?

Response Options

Select all that apply:

• CO2
• CH4
• N2O
• HFCs
• PFCs
• SF6
• NF3

Guidance

The list consists of the main greenhouse gases defined by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), as well as nitrogen triflouride (NF3).

Energy Data

If Yes to 7.0:

7.5 Please give the total amount of fuel (refers to Scope 1 emissions) that your local government has consumed this year.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

[Add row]

Guidance

The intent of the question is to capture data on fuel that is consumed (converted to end-use energy) directly by your city – referring to Scope 1. Scope 1 emissions are all direct GHG emissions sources owned or operated by the municipal government. This fuel could be used in combustion in owned or controlled boilers, furnaces, vehicles, etc.

The ORS provides a table for your answer with the following fields:

Source
Please select a source of your fuel consumption, the list of emissions sources is the same as in LGO1.2.

Fuel
The second field is a list of fuel types in a drop-down menu. The list of fuels is drawn from WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol Stationary Combustion Guidance document. The fuels are listed in alphabetical order. The most commonly used fuels are provided in the box below.

Under the additional headings of the table – ‘Amount’ and ‘Units’ – please provide the corresponding data for the fuel type used. The energy units should be selected from the following: GWh; MWh; kWh; TJ; GJ; MJ; Therms; Btu; m3; L; Metric tonnes; Short tons. Multiple entries can be made, using the ‘Add Row’ facility at the bottom right of the table.

Emissions

Please provide the total emissions resulting from burning the fuels identified in the Fuel column. Please provide the number in metric tonnes CO2e with no delimiters.

If Yes to 7.0:

7.6 Please provide total (Scope 1 + Scope 2) GHG emissions for your local government operations, in metric tonnes CO2e. Scopes are a common categorization method.

Scope 1: All direct GHG emissions

Scope 2: Indirect GHG emissions associated with the consumption of purchased or acquired electricity, steam, heating, or cooling.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

This question is your opportunity to enter a numeric value for the total figure of your local government’s GHG emissions in the selected year, as well as your total scope 1 and scope 2 emissions if your city disaggregates these emissions. Please note that these are local government operation emissions only and should be provided in metric tonnes CO2e.

Scope 1 emissions are all direct GHG emissions sources owned or operated by the municipal government. Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions as a result of electricity, steam, heating, or cooling that has been purchased or acquired by the municipal government. For more information on scopes see the Local Government Operations Protocol.

If your city has only calculated Scope 1 emissions, provide this in the ‘Total Scope 1’ field, and leave both ‘Total Scope 1 + Scope 2’ and ‘Total Scope 2’ emissions fields blank. 

If your city disaggregates emissions into Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, please enter the totals for your accounting year here. Refer to your city’s emissions methodology or protocol to determine if this categorization is relevant for your city. Scopes are a common categorization and more details are available in the following methodologies:

• International Emissions Analysis Protocol
• Local Government Operations Protocol
• WRI / WBCSD Greenhouse Gas Protocol

A table is provided with the following fields:

Total Scope 1 + Scope 2 emissions (metric tonnes CO2e)
Enter the sum of your total Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions in metric tonnes CO2e as a numeric value.

Total Scope 1 emissions (metric tonnes CO2e)
Enter your total scope one emissions in metric tonnes CO2e as a numeric value. Scope 1 refers to all direct GHG emissions from the municipal local government operations.

Total Scope 2 emissions (metric tonnes CO2e)
Enter your total scope one emissions in metric tonnes CO2e as a numeric value.Scope 2 refers to all indirect GHG emissions associated with the consumption of purchased or acquired electricity, steam, heating, or cooling of the municipal local government operations.

Comment
Provide more detail on your scope 1 and 2 emissions reported. Please check that your Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions add up to your total emissions. Please use the comment field to explain any inconsistencies or gaps in data.

If Yes to 7.0:

7.7 Do you measure local government Scope 3 emissions?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• In progress
• Intending to undertake in the next 2 years
• Not intending to undertake

Guidance

Please answer by selecting “Yes”; “In progress”; “Intending to undertake in the next 2 years”; “Not intending to undertake”; or “Don’t know” from the drop down menu provided.

As an example, the following description of Scope 3 emissions is taken directly from the ICLEI Local Government Operations Protocol:

• Scope 3: “All other indirect emissions not covered in Scope 2, such as emissions resulting from the extraction and production of purchased materials and fuels, transport-related activities in vehicles not owned or controlled by the reporting entity (e.g., employee commuting and business travel), outsourced activities, waste disposal, etc.”

Further detail on measuring Scope 3 emissions can be found in the ICLEI Local Government Operations Protocol.

If Yes to 7.7:

7.7a Please complete the table.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

[Add Row]

Guidance

This is a table question with three fields to allow explanation of the Scope 3 emissions sources which are included in the local government operations inventory. The fields provided are as follows:

Source of Scope 3 emissions
Provide a breakdown of the different categories of scope 3 emissions by choosing a source from the list of values:

• Employee Commuting;
• Employee Business Travel;
• Emissions from Contracted Services;
• Upstream Production of Materials and Fuels;
• Upstream and Downstream Transportation of Materials and Fuels;
• Waste Related Scope 3 Emission Sources;
• Other

You can find more information on scope 3 upstream and downstream activities here.

Emissions (metric tonnes CO2e)
Provide the amount of CO2e emitted for each source.

Comment
Provide more detail about your Scope 3 emissions reported.

Example Response

For explanatory purposes, a sample answer to this question is included below.

If Not intending to undertake or Intending to undertake in the next 2 years to 7.7:

7.7b Please explain why not and detail your plans to do so in the future, if any.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

If you do not measure Scope 3 emissions, please explain why not.

Reasoning
In this field, select from the following options in the drop-down menu the most appropriate reason for why you do not measure scope 3 emissions in your local government operations :

• Lack of data;
• Low data quality;
• Lack of knowledge/capacity;
• Lack of funding/resources;
• Scope categorization not used;
• Not required by national authorities;
• Not required by international agreements;
• Local government Scope 3 emissions have been assessed as insignificant;
• Other.

Explanation
Please provide more information or context on the reason selected in the previous field.

If Yes to 7.0:

7.8 Please indicate if your local government operations emissions have increased, decreased, or stayed the same since your last emissions inventory, and please describe why.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

The purpose of this table is to understand the change in emissions over time and the factors which led to that change.

Change in emissions
In the first field, please select how your emissions have changed compared to the emissions you reported last time. A drop down with the following list of values is provided:

• Increased;
• Decreased;
• Stayed the same;
• This is our first year of calculation;
• Do not know.

Reason for change
In the second field, please select from the drop down menu to indicate the reason you have identified that led to this change.

For example, if you previously reported emissions from 2012 and you are now reporting emissions from 2014 please explain any material difference in the figures. For instance, you may have experienced population increase, which may have affected the figures.

Please explain and quantify changes in emissions
Please provide more information or context on the reasons for change that you have selected. Please include the percentage or absolute amount of emissions that have changed since your last inventory. If the change in emissions is due to several factors, please select the reason for the most significant change and use this column to explain any other factors.

Example Response

For explanatory purposes, a sample answer to this question is included below.

Local Government Emissions Verification

If Yes to 7.0

7.9 Has the GHG emissions data you are currently reporting been externally verified or audited in part or in whole?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• In progress
• Intending to undertake in the next 2 years
• Not intending to undertake
• Do not know

Guidance

City governments (or any large organization) may see value in having external verification or auditing of their emissions and emission reduction efforts. This can ensure higher levels of quality control / quality assurance. The ability to call on verified data may provide your government with a powerful tool in efforts to influence policy or regulation at other levels of government or with other community stakeholders.

Please respond to indicate whether your local government emissions have been externally verified or audited by selecting “Yes”, “In progress”, “Intending to undertake in future”, “Not intending to undertake” or “Do not know” from the drop down menu.

If Yes to 7.9:

7.9a Please provide the following information about the emissions verification process.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

This is a table question with fields to provide an opportunity to describe relevant information about this verification process with the following headings:

Name of verifier and attach verification certificate
List the names of organizations which have verified your greenhouse gas emissions and provide proof of verification in the form of an attachment. This function allows you to attach your verification certificate document. To attach a document click on ‘Choose file’, navigate to the file you want to upload and click ‘Open’. Once you can see the file name in the text field click ‘Attach & Save’ to attach the document.

Year of verification
State the year in which the verification occurred.

Please explain which parts of your inventory are not verified

If the inventory is only verified for certain sectors or scopes, please identify here which parts of the inventory are not covered by the verification. You can also use this field to provide additional details on your verification process, such as:

• Percentage of emission inventory audited
• Sections of emission inventory audited

If Not intending to undertake, or Intending to undertake in the next 2 years to 7.9:

7.9b Please explain why your local government operations inventory is not verified and describe any future plans for verification.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

Please give more details on whether and how you plan to verify your emissions related to your local government operations in the future by selecting an option from the drop down options in the “Reason” field; providing a comment on this selection in the “Comments” field.

8. Energy

Energy

8.0 Does your city have a renewable energy or electricity target?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• In progress
• Intending to undertake in the next 2 years
• Not intending to undertake
• Do not know

Guidance

Renewable energy targets are defined as numerical goals established by governments to achieve specific amount of renewable energy production or consumption. They can apply to the electricity, heating/cooling or transport sectors, or to the energy sector as a whole. To respond to this question please select the dropdown that is most appropriate to your city:

• Yes;
• In progress;
• Intending to undertake in the next 2 years;
• Not intending to undertake;
• Do not know.

If Yes to 8.0:

8.0a Please provide details of your renewable energy or electricity target and how the city plans to meet those targets.

Response Options

Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

[Add Row]

Guidance

The goal of this question is to understand the targets you have in place regarding renewable electricity or energy in your city. This year, we have combined both renewable energy and electricity targets into one table, to allow comparability between different target types. You may report either capacity based (MW) or output based (MWh) renewable energy targets. For more information on setting renewable energy targets, please refer to the IRENA Renewable Energy Target Setting report, which defines renewable energy targets as:

“Numerical goals established by governments or other actors (such as electric utilities) to achieve a specific amount of renewable energy production or consumption. Renewable energy targets can apply to the electricity, heating/cooling or transport sectors, or to the energy sector, and include a specific time period or date by which the target is to be reached.”

Please provide your response in the table provided under the following headings:

Scale
Please select which scale your target applies to. This can either be for your local government operations only or for your community.

Energy types covered by target
Please select the energy type covered by your city’s renewable energy or electricity target. Please note the selection you make in this field will define the units used for the entire row of the table. For example, if you select “Total installed capacity of renewable energy (in MW)”, the number provided in for ‘base year renewable energy’ as well as ‘target year renewable energy’ will both be in MW. Please select from the following options:

• Total installed capacity of renewable energy (in MW);
• Total installed capacity of renewable electricity (in MW);
• All renewable energy produced (in MWh);
• All renewable electricity produced (in MWh);
• All renewable energy consumed (in MWh);
• All renewable electricity consumed (in MWh);
• Other (please specify)

Base year
Please enter the appropriate year to the numerical field provided. Your base year (also known as the “representative year”) is the reference year from which your energy or electricity is measured. If you are reporting a target for a specific sector of your city or local government, please provide the base year for that sector.

Total renewable energy covered by target (in unit specified in ‘Energy / electricity types covered’ field)
Please enter the numerical value of the total renewable energy covered by the target in the base year field.

Percentage renewable energy / electricity of total energy or electricity in base year
Please enter the proportion of total electricity from renewable energy in the base year. For example, your city may have 7% of the total electricity from renewable sources in the base year.

Target year
Please enter in numerical form the year by which you anticipate achieving your goal. Please note that the target year cannot be in the past.

Total renewable energy / electricity covered by target (in unit specified in ‘Energy / electricity types covered’ field)
Please indicate the total amount of renewable energy / electricity covered by the target in the units specified in the target year.

Percentage renewable energy / electricity of total energy or electricity in target year
Please indicate the proportion of total electricity as a percentage from renewable energy sources in the target year.

Percentage of target achieved so far
Please enter a numerical value for the percentage of your renewable energy or electricity target that you have achieved since the ‘Target year start’, without commas and without the percentage symbol (%).

Plans to meet target (include details on types of energy)
Please be as specific as possible when describing how you are planning to reach your renewable electricity target and do not hesitate to mention or reference any plans or strategies developed to help deliver the target.

Example Response

For explanatory purposs, a sample answer to this question is included below.

If Not intending to undertake, or Intending to undertake to 8.0:

8.0b Please explain why you do not have a renewable energy or electricity target and any plans to introduce one in the future.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

Please give more details on why you do not have a renewable energy or renewable electricity target by selecting a suitable option from the drop down options in the “Reason” field; providing a comment on this selection in the “Comments” field. Such a comment should include information about the barriers that impact each reason, or detail your progress in developing a target and the areas likely to be incorporated within it.

8.1 Does your city have energy consumption data to report?

Response Options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No

If Yes to 8.1:

8.2 Please indicate the energy mix of electricity consumed in your city.

Response Options

Please complete the following table:

Guidance

The goal of this question is to get a better understanding of the current energy mix of your electricity grid and the contribution made by renewable technologies at the city-wide scale.

In the first field we have listed the most common sources of energy. Please indicate in the second field the percentage of each energy source constituting your energy mix, where it is applicable. Please ensure that the total percentage entered adds up to 100. If the energy source is not applicable to your electric grid please enter 0.

Please note: If you do not have data for city-wide energy mix, only for national or local government level, describe this in the comments.

The energy mix of countries can be found here.

Example Response

For explanatory purposes, a sample answer to this question is included below.