That’s why we – CDP and ICLEI - are partnering to present one unified process for subnational climate action reporting.

Local and regional governments have called for a unified reporting system, and starting from April 18, 2019 they are getting just that. They now report once, through CDP, and the publicly reported data is automatically shared with ICLEI.

We understand that the process of reporting climate data requires valuable resources and that many local and regional governments are stretched with limited capacity and pressing responsibilities. For this reason, ICLEI and CDP have launched this collaboration to simplify the reporting process to better support subnational governments to take faster and further action.

Local and regional governments can’t manage well what they don’t measure at all. The reporting process encourages them to better understand and think about the climate risks they face. Reporting helps them to embed climate action planning in policy-making and spending and motivates them to create comprehensive action plans.

Delivering on these plans in turn improves public health, creates jobs, tackles fuel poverty and attracts investment to the area, as highlighted here and here.

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Since announcing our collaboration at COP23 in Bonn in 2017, our two organizations have been busy working out the details of the partnership. And now we have updated local and regional governments on our new unified reporting system.

By streamlining ICLEI’s carbonn Climate Registry (cCR) and CDP’s reporting platform, our goal is to make climate reporting faster and easier. We aim to build on each organization’s strengths to simplify how local and regional governments report and better enable them to track efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to climate change.

For more information, please click here.