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The SEAD Street Lighting Tool is a free, easy-to-use calculator that can help purchasers make more informed choices regarding street lighting fixtures to save up to 50 percent in energy costs. Supported by Mexico's National Commission for Energy Efficiency,India's Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Natural Resources Canada,Swedish Energy Agency and U.S. Department of Energy, the tool is designed to make the fixture evaluation process easier by assisting street light purchasers with evaluating light quality, energy use and costs for the most common road layouts. Designed for international use, the tool is currently available in English, French, and Spanish. You can change the language by using the "Select Language" drop down menu on the first page of the tool.
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This query tool is intended to help local government staff screen tools and resources designed to measure the emissions, energy, and economic impacts of current and prospective programs and policies at both the government operations and community-wide scales. The Tool Finder for Local Government Clean Energy Initiatives allows you to navigate the wide array of freely-available tools and resources to identify those most relevant for your given situation or need.
Tool Finder for Local Government Clean Energy Initiatives
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The LGO Protocol is an unprecedented collaboration between ICLEI, the California Air Resources Board, the California Climate Action Registry, and The Climate Registry. With the nation’s leading organizations in local GHG accounting protocol collaborating on a single protocol, LGO Protocol is now the official standard for all local governments in the United States who wish to prepare and report GHG emissions. The LGO Protocol has been formally approved by the boards of ICLEI USA, the California Climate Action Registry and the California Air Resources Board. By following the LGO Protocol, local governments can be confident that their work will adhere to the latest in GHG accounting, and can be sure that their efforts will be compatible with programs by the collaborating partners, and with any other entity that adopts the LGO Protocol for its programs. ICLEI has adopted LGO Protocol as the basis for its Five Milestones for Climate Mitigation. The objective of this protocol is to provide a consistent set of methodologies for US government inventories in order to facilitate benchmarking between local governments as well as the basis for completing the Five Milestones for Climate Protection.
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ICLEI-USA has produced the RC Protocol in recognition of the contribution recycling and composting can make to greenhouse gas reduction efforts. The RC Protocol represents the new national standard for measuring emissions benefits of recycling and composting at the community level. The RC Protocol complements ICLEI's Community Protocol by providing additional guidance on accounting for the emissions benefits of recycling and composting activities in a community. The RC Protocol is intended to help local governments account for the overall net emissions benefits of recycling and composting activities in their communities, as well as to estimate additional emissions reductions that occur outside the boundary of a community inventory. Inventory protocols that focus on gross emissions generation do not have within them opportunities for firms and local governments to quantify and promote alternative management practices that result in lower emissions. This protocol supports this type of quantification, but notes that it is not intended to support the calculation of net emissions from an inventory.
US Recycling and Composting Emissions Protocol
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EPA created the Waste Reduction Model (WARM) to help solid waste planners track and report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions from several different waste management practices. WARM is available both as a Web-based calculator and as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.zip) (586 Kb). The Excel-based version of WARM offers more functionality than the Web-based calculator. WARM calculates and totals GHG emissions of baseline and alternative waste management practices—source reduction, recycling, combustion, composting, and landfilling. The model calculates emissions in metric tons of carbon equivalent (MTCE), metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2E), and energy units (million BTU) across a wide range of material types commonly found in municipal solid waste (MSW). For information on the data and methodologies behind the calculations, please see the model documentation. WARM is periodically updated as new information becomes available and new material types are added. Users may refer to the model history to better understand the differences among various versions of WARM. WARM was last updated June, 2014. WARM now recognizes 50 material types, which are presented in the table below; their emission factors are available for viewing in units of metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2E) or metric tons of carbon equivalent (MTCE). Note that the emission factors represent the GHG emissions associated with managing 1 short ton of MSW in the manner indicated. GHG savings should be calculated by comparing the emissions associated with the alternative scenario with the emissions associated with the baseline scenario, as opposed to simply multiplying the quantity by an emission factor. For instance, the GHG savings of recycling 1 short ton of aluminum cans instead of landfilling them would be calculated as follows: (1 short ton × -9.11 MTCO2E/short ton) - (1 short ton × 0.04 MTCO2E/short ton) = -9.15 MTCO2E For information on the definition of each of the WARM material types as well as data source and year of underlying life-cycle data, please see the WARM materials definitions list.
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The Tool for Rapid Assessment of City Energy (TRACE) was first developed in 2008 by ESMAP’s Energy Efficient Cities Program to help cities expand their municipal services through energy efficiency. It was designed to give city authorities a quick and easy way to assess their energy use and to identify cost-effective and feasible measures they can take to improve energy efficiency in a variety of public sectors including lighting, water and wastewater, buildings, transportation, solid waste, and power and heating. It guides users through the process of data collection and sector prioritization —considering key constraints such as technical capacity and finance— to generate specific and integrated recommendations cities can use to improve and expand their energy efficiency efforts. TRACE's benchmarking function allows a city to compare its energy use against a range of peer cities and show the potential energy efficiency improvement the city may realize if it were to match the average of better-performing cities.
Tool for rapid assessment of city energy (TRACE 2.0)
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HEAT+ isICLEI’s multilingual online emissions inventory tool to help Local Governments account for greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants in local communities. The Harmonized Emissions Analysis Tool plus (HEAT+) helps Local Governments prepare baseline and monitoring inventories, forecast emissions, identify key emission sources , track commitments and facilitates reporting to the Council and reporting platforms such as the carbonn Cities Climate Registry(cCCR). It covers greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), Common Air Pollutants (CAP) and other Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC). HEAT+ is consistent with the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines and compliant with the Global Protocol on Community-scale GHG Emissions (GPC). Multi-lingual and multi-country versions are available, with guest access for visitors interested in exploring the tool. It offers secure data storage, a global database, comprehensive technical support and accessibility 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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The Integrated Environmental Assessment (IEA) is an on-line interactive training resource platform, including numerous IEA tools, methods, case studies and available reports.This web site is designed for:Governments, practitioners and other stakeholders that are conducting or involved with integrated environmental assessments;Students and educators that are learning about environmental assessment. The Training Manual is produced by UNEP in collaboration with the InternationalInstitutefor Sustainable Development (IISD) and is available for users worldwide. It contains an eight-volume basic training course on integrated environmental assessment (including PDF, PowerPoint and e-learning versions). The manual is intended to be a guide for people designing and running training workshops inIEAs at the regional, national or ecosystem level. The Training Manual is a global resource, intended for direct use in different parts of the world in guiding assessment processes at different levels (global, regional, national, etc.) and for guiding decision making at the regional and international levels. The content of the Training Manual is generic (i.e., it leads participants through all the steps required to carry out an effective Integrated Environmental Assessment). As such, the tool can be locally adapted, allowing it to serve very effectively as guidance for national or sub-national (e.g., city, watershed, ecosystems) scale assessments. The module on Climate Change Vulnerability and Impact Assessment (VIA), as well as the version for cities, outline key approaches to help in assessing vulnerability to climate change in the context of other non-climatic issues and stresses such as environmental change and consumption levels, and their integration with other drivers and pressures. In this way, they make use of the general DPSIR framework
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The Practical Evaluation Tools for Urban Sustainability is an online tool to help people consider the impacts of buildings and infrastructure on the environment, society and the economy. The website includes information that can be used to analyze and improve the sustainability of urban infrastructure, whatever the size or type. The information in PETUS includes:case study projects from across Europe that illustrate where sustainability has been considered, methods that can be used to guide and analyze consideration of sustainability in a practical way,EU legislation that has to be followed in member countries.a monitoring process to enable YOU to track the inclusion of sustainability in YOUR project. PETUS covers the sectors of:Energy -information regarding developments related to energy infrastructure. Infrastructure within this sector is likely to be associated with increase in supply of energy from renewable sources, reduction of energy use, maintenance of current energy supply systems to ensure that a constant supply of energy is provided.
Practical Evaluation Tools for Urban Sustainability (PETUS)
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The carbonn Cities Climate Registry (cCCR) is the leading global reporting platform of local climate action. It enables cities and Local Governments to demonstrate their power and potential to reduce climate risks and move towards global low-emissions and climate resilient development through the reporting of energy and climate commitments, greenhouse gas emissions as well as mitigation and adaptation actions. Launched at the World Mayors Summit on Climate in Mexico City on 21 November 2010cCCR), cCCR is the global response of Local Governments to measurable, reportable and verifiable climate action. The cCCR was developed by local governments for local governments.The cCCR enables cities and local governments to publicly register their greenhouse gas reduction commitments, report performance and showcase actions. It supports the global credibility of local climate action and ensures transparency, accountability and comparability. The cCCR enables cities and Local Governments to publicly report their energy and climate commitments, greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation and adaptation actions.
carbonn Cities Climate Registry (cCCR)
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Clean Air Asia, with support of its partners including the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and the Global Atmospheric Pollution Forum, developed CitiesACT. CitiesACT is an online database providing access to air quality, climate change, transport and energy data and indicators for Asian cities and countries. CitiesACT is part of the Clean Air Portal and maintained by Clean Air Asia. Data on air pollution, GHG and climate change, energy and transport in Asia are often incomplete, lacking or dated. Whenever available, these are usually spread across different agencies and institutions. Often this requires having to contact individual organizations and request the data, which can be in different formats. This process of data collection is time consuming and inefficient, making it difficult for researchers and policy makers to find relevant data quickly and efficiently. In addition, data on air quality or GHG emissions are often presented in isolation from data on population, economy, energy and transport structure. This makes it more difficult to utilize the data for effective policy making. The main objective of the citiesact portal is to provide data and indicators on air quality, transport and climate (GHG emissions) for countries and cities in Asia. Data are compiled from international and national statistical sources, national and local statistical yearbooks, responses to survey questionnaires, secondary data sent by Clean Air Asia country networks and partners, and personal correspondence with national ministries, among others. CitiesACT also contains air pollution and GHG emissions indicators for transport and energy generated by Clean Air Asia. Popular Clean Air Asia data charts, graphs and maps can also be accessed here! An overview of data and indicators available is available here.
Citiesact.org – Air Quality, Climate, Transport and Energy Portal
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Energy Efficient Cities Case Studies Database is home to several dozen urban energy efficiency case studies across all sectors in both developing and developed countries. In addition to the Energy Efficient Cities cases, the database also includes Eco2 cities case studies from Australia, Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and Sweden. The goals of the Case Studies Database are to: Demonstrate the range of approaches and measures various cities have used to undertake efficiency improvements, Document implementation arrangements, costs, results and lessons learned, Provide a platform for cities to share their own experiences and programs, and Help guide cities around the globe in designing effective urban energy efficiency policies and programs.
Energy Efficient Cities Case Studies Database
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The ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager® is an online tool you can use to measure and track energy and water consumption, as well as greenhouse gas emissions. It allows you to benchmark the performance of one building or a whole portfolio of buildings, and compare them against similar buildings nationwide. All you need are your energy bills and some basic information about your building to get started. Portfolio Manager includes a vast array of data and tools and all the regression equations used in a Technical Reference. It provides a methodology and data trends that can provide useful insights in other countries. The objectives of this web-based calculation tool are to; benchmark energy use, build an energy program; improve energy performance; communicate and educate.
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EPA’s Waste Reduction Model (WARM) recognizes 54 material types, and that number continues to grow. However, users may still find that some materials and pathways of interest to them are not represented in the model. In such cases, WARM users often apply WARM factors for materials that seem similar to the non-WARM material in which they are interested. This document discusses some of the limitations of using WARM materials as proxies for non-WARM materials, and provides EPAapproved WARM proxies for some commonly-requested non-WARM materials.
EPA_Using WARM Emission Factors for Materials and Pathways Not in WARM
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