# Presentation: 282616

## California Climate Action Registry  		

- EPA State & Local Climate Partners’
- Conference
- November 22nd, 2002
- Annapolis, MD

## Introduction

- Overview of the California Climate Action Registry
- Update of recent Registry activity
- Demonstrate the Climate Action Registry Reporting Online Tool (CARROT)
- Discuss future collaborations, opportunities, and challenges
- Where can we come together?

## California Climate Action Registry 

- Nonprofit organization created in 2001 by state legislation
- Voluntary GHG registry of 6 Kyoto gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFC, PFC, SF6)
- Technical partnership with California Energy Commission and Air Resources Board
- Annual entity-wide (CA or US) inventory reporting
- Direct & Indirect Emissions
- Third party certification

## California Registry Program

- Standardized GHG Reporting:
- General Reporting Protocol
- Industry Specific Protocols
- Certification Protocol
- CARROT: Climate Action Registry Reporting Online Tool
- “How-To” and “Best Practices” Workshops
- Policy Seminars
- Annual Conference
- Expert workgroups to further GHG science and accounting practices

## Charter Members

- Better World Group
- Bentley Prince Street
- BP
- Calif. Energy Commission
- Cal-EPA
- CCEEB
- City of Los Angeles
- City of Sacramento
- City of Santa Monica
- City of San Diego
- Clipper Windpower, Inc.
- COPEC

- Energy Foundation
- ICF Consulting
- InTex Services, Inc.
- L.A. Dept. of Water & Power
- NRDC
- NUMMI
- PG&E Corporation
- QUALCOMM
- SMUD
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- U.C.S.D.

## General Reporting Protocol

- Participant’s User Manual for participation in the Registry
- Protocol Organization:
- Part I:  Introduction
- Part II:  What you should Report
- Part III:  Quantifying your Emissions
- Part IV:  Completing and Submitting your Emissions Report

## Emission Reporting Process 

- Determine Geographic, Organizational, and Operational Boundaries
- Establish Emission Baseline (voluntary)
- Quantify Emissions
- Determine De Minimis Emissions
- Complete & Certify Annual GHG Emission Report

## The Certification Protocol

- Companion document to the General Reporting Protocol
- Users Manual for Approved Certifiers/Reference for Participants
- Outlines the certification process
- Describes certification activities
- Includes checklists and references
- Answers key questions

## Certification Principles

- Purpose:  To provide an independent review of emission report to ensure it achieves a minimum quality standard (95% accuracy)
- Criteria:
- Completeness
- Consistency
- Comparability
- Accuracy
- Transparency

## Certification Process

- Scope and plan certification activities
- Conduct the core certification activities:
- Identify Emission Sources
- Review Management Systems/Methodologies
- Verify Emission Estimates
- Prepare Certification Report and Certification Opinion
- Submit authorized Certification Opinion to the Registry
- Retain proper records and documentation

## CARROT

**C**limate **A**ction **R**egistry **R**eporting **O**n-line **T**ool
- Tool for multiple users:
- Helps participants calculate and report annual GHG emissions
- Allows certifiers to review standardized data
- Enables Registry staff to track participant data
- Permits the public to view aggregated reports
- Version 1.0: Designed by CH2M Hill
- Very attractive feature to many participants
- Other states and programs already expressing interest in using the CARROT

## Registry’s Next Steps

- Develop Industry Specific Protocols
- Provide member services
- Develop project level reporting
- Improve Protocols
- Enhance CARROT
- Continue to share and absorb GHG accounting and management information to ensure consistency

## How Can the States Work Together?

- Consistency is key!
- Don’t reinvent the wheel:
- Use Registry Protocols, if applicable
- Use the CARROT:
- Create new state-specific user interface
- Collaborate to develop future CARROT features
- Lower shared costs to maintain and host CARROT
- License the entire application
- Work together on new protocols

## Collaboration (Cont.)

- “Road Test” the Certification Protocol and process....is this the right approach?
- Design data links/communication between registries to promote consistency and reduce reporting burdens
- Develop “least common denominator” reporting language across registries?

## Contact Information

- Jill Gravender
- 	Technical Director
- 	_[jill@climateregistry.org](mailto:jill@climateregistry.org)_
- 	213-891-6921
- California Climate Action Registry
- 515 S. Flower Street, Suite 1305
- Los Angeles, CA  90071
- 213-891-1444
- _[www.climateregistry.org](http://www.climateregistry.org/)_