London – CDP and ICLEI are teaming up to develop a unified platform city climate reporting. This will simplify how cities report their climate actions and better enable them to protect themselves from climate impacts.
Reporting on climate change for cities and towns of all sizes
is about to get a lot easier, according to a statement from CDP. It is
teaming up with ICLEI to develop a single, unified
platform for city climate reporting. From 2019 onwards, the ICLEI
network of cities, towns and regions will report alongside C40
member cities on CDP’s online reporting platform. The result is
that cities will only have to report once on one
platform.
“By streamlining the two systems into one centralized entry
point, we hope to radically simplify how cities report and better
enable them to track efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
build climate resilience and protect themselves from climate
impacts,” writes Kyra Appleby, director of Cities at CDP.
The aim of the new, unified platform is to help local
governments manage their cities to better understand the
opportunities available to them, while at the same time provide
vital information for investors to feel confident in their funding
decisions.
“Because of this, we will have data that is robust and
standardized across all cities… that gives the confidence to cities
to know what they are doing, for investors to know what they are
investing in, and… for national governments to really understand
how much cities have been able to contribute,” said the former UN
climate chief Christiana Figueres.