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This article is for disclosing Cities, States and Regions and provides guidance on reporting science-based targets in the Cities CDP-ICLEI Track questionnaire and the States and Regions questionnaire.

Contents

Introduction

Science-based climate targets are part of CDP’s scoring criteria. To ensure that your jurisdiction’s target can be assessed for alignment with limiting global warming to 1.5°C, you should provide data for the following questions and columns. Failing to report these data points could result in the targets not being reviewed due to insufficient information. The questions below help us analyze whether targets are aligned with the SBT methodologies for Subnational Goverments.

For more information on science-based targets, visit: SBTs for Subnational Governments.
 

Reporting science-based targets in the questionnaire (question list)

Questionnaire section

Question

Datapoint which should be answered

Introduction, general information

(1.2) Provide details of your jurisdiction in the table below.

- Current (or most recent) population size.

- Population year.

- Projected population size.

- Projected population year.

Emissions inventories

(4.1) Does your jurisdiction have a community-wide emissions inventory to report.

- Must select “Yes”.

Emissions inventories

(4.1.1) Attach and provide information on your jurisdiction’s main community-wide greenhouse gas emissions inventory.

- Latest year covered by main inventory.

- Population year covered by main inventory.

Introduction, general information

(4.1.2) Provide a breakdown of your community-wide emissions.

- Scope 1/direct emissions (metric tonnes CO2e).

- Scope 2/indirect emissions from the use of grid-supplied electricity, heat, steam and/or cooling (metric tonnes CO2e).

Or “If you have no emissions to report, please select a notation key to explain why”.

Please report on sectoral and sub-sectoral totals when available. Please report Total emissions for each scope.

Mitigation targets 

(7.1) Does your jurisdiction have an active greenhouse gas emission reduction target(s) in place? Please include long-term and/or mid-term targets. If no active GHG emissions reduction target is in place, please indicate the primary reason why.

- Must select “Yes”.

Mitigation targets

(7.1.1) Provide details of your emissions reduction target(s). Please report both long-term and mid-term targets, if applicable:

  • For your jurisdiction’s target to be considered a science-based target, you should report:

    • A long-term (by 2050 latest) net zero target covering jurisdiction-wide, scope 1 and 2 emissions.

    • A 1.5°C-aligned mid-term target covering jurisdiction-wide, scope 1 and 2 emissions in line with halving global emissions by 2030. A mid-term target is any interim or near-term target set between the reporting year and your net zero target. For more information on how to set a science-based target, please refer to the Science-Based Target Network's Guide for Cities.
       

- Select a reference ID for the target.

- Target type.

- Boundary of target relative to jurisdiction boundary:

  • Should cover at least the full jurisdiction boundary.

  • Valid selections include: “Same - covers entire jurisdiction and nothing else;” or “Larger - covers the whole jurisdiction and adjoining areas, please explain additions”.

- Gases covered by the target.

- Emissions sources covered by target:

  • Should cover at least Scope 1 and 2 emissions.

  • Valid selections include: “All emissions sources which are included in the jurisdiction inventory”, “All BASIC (GPC) emissions sources which are included in jurisdiction inventory” “All BASIC+ (GPC) emissions sources included in jurisdiction inventory”, “All BASIC+ (GPC) emissions sources plus other indirect emissions (scope 3) included in jurisdiction inventory, please specify other indirect emissions covered” , “All direct emissions (scope 1 or "territorial") and indirect emissions from grid-supplied energy (scope 2) included in jurisdiction inventory”.

- Is this target a net zero target?

- Year target was established.

- Emissions covered by target in year target was established (metric tonnes CO2e).

- Base year.

- Base year emissions covered by target (metric tonnes CO2e).

- Target year.

- Estimated business as usual emissions in target year (metric tonnes CO2e).

- Percentage of emissions reduction (including offsets and carbon dioxide removal):

  • The percentage emission reduction target you report for your jurisdiction should include any planned offsets and carbon dioxide removals. For example, if a jurisdiction is reporting a net zero target, this should be reported as 100%.

- Net emissions in target year (including offsets and carbon dioxide removal) (metric tonnes CO2e):

  • Report your jurisdiction’s net emissions in the target year here, after emissions offsetting or carbon dioxide removals have been applied. For example, for a net zero target, this would be zero metric tonnes CO2e.

  • Depending on your selection in column ‘Target type,’ this may be auto calculated.

Specify if target is considered a science-based target (SBT) and the SBT methodology it aligns to.

The following three methodologies listed below can be used to set or check science-based targets in line with a 1.5C scenario:

Target status and progress made towards target.


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Keywords: CDP, questionnaire, CDP-ICLEI Track, Cities, States, Regions, questions, question, Science Based Targets, SBTs, subnational goverments, reporting.
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