US Community Protocol for Accounting and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Community Protocol is designed to inspire and guide U.S. local governments to account for and report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the communities they represent.
This Community Protocol represents a new national standard that establishes requirements and recommended best practices for developing community GHG emissions inventories of emissions generating sources that are within local government’s ability to influence.This protocol provides methodologies and reporting frameworks which focus attention on those sources and activities within US local government’s ability to influence. Methodologies reference specific data sources that are available to US local governments.