Tag: Climate Action Programme

A new C40 toolkit is now available to help cities improve the quality of community wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emission accounting and reporting. It aims to guide practitioners through the process of assessing whether their emission inventories have followed the requirements and principles of the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC), a best practice standard used by cities across the globe to measure and report GHG emissions in a comprehensive and consistent manner. 

2016 was a monumental year for C40, our member cities and our mayors. Not only did the Paris Agreement enter into force less than one year after COP21, but we also saw the number of C40 member cities grow to 90, representing more than 650 million citizens, and our Steering Committee unanimously elected the first-ever woman C40 Chair, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, to lead the organisation. Below, we look back at ten key moments that made 2016 a very productive and important year. 

Director of UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Dr. Jeffrey Sachs makes a compelling case for implementing long-term, low-emission development strategies now, including serious plans for decarbonization.

The latest issue of Sustainable Cities – a twice-yearly publication by Climate Action designed for Mayors, urban planners and sustainability experts – features a foreword by our new Executive Director Mark Watts, where he emphasizes the impact C40 Cities are having on reducing carbon emissions worldwide.