Photos: The COP20 in Lima
(All photos © Katrina Borromeo.)
ICLEI Links: 12 December 2014
Welcome to the latest edition of ICLEI Links! This week we’re focusing all of our attention on ICLEI’s efforts at the COP20 in Lima. Here’s what’s happened so far in this busy week! Launch of First Global Standard to Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Cities IISD report on the launch of the new GPC (VIDEO)
Lima’s Climate Ambitions
Lima, the host city of one of the most important international climate conference to date, the COP20, is not limiting its engagement in the field of climate change to the co-organization of this impressive gathering of climate negotiators and experts. For the past years, the Municipality of Lima, conscious of the interactions between climate change
Lima hosts cities climate change meeting alongside COP20
Lima convenes the biggest gathering of Mayors and climate action experts after the New York Climate Summit 8 December 2014, Lima, Peru – The Peruvian capital Lima is hosting an important climate change meeting today among world mayors and experts to concretize their engagement in the new climate regime to be adopted in Paris next
Bristol becomes the 500th reporting city of carbonn Climate Registry
8 December 2014, Lima, Peru: The world’s leading reporting platform for local and subnational climate action – the carbonn Climate Registy (cCR) – welcomes its 500th reporting city today, with the new addition of the City of Bristol, United Kingdom. ICLEI, the leading cities network operating carbonn Climate Registry, announced this today at the ongoing
Launch of First Global Standard to Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Cities
Today ICLEI, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) launched the first widely endorsed standard for cities to measure and report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC) uses a robust and clear framework to establish credible emissions accounting and reporting practices, thereby
Focus on Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo is the world’s most populous urban agglomeration. As the capital city of Japan, it is the country’s political, economic and cultural center. Although the city occupies only 0.6 percent of Japan’s total land area, it is home to more than 10 percent of the country’s population and it accounts for over 4 percent of
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