LOS ANGELES—As world leaders kicked off United Nations climate talks in Paris this week, Mayor Eric Garcetti released the “Los Angeles Climate Action Report,” which shows that L.A. has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 20%. The report also details how Los Angeles is nearly halfway to the 2025 emissions reduction target established in the Mayor’s Sustainable City pLAn.
The report updates the City’s 1990 baseline emissions inventory and includes new 2013 emissions data calculated based on the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories (GPC) methodology, which was released in 2014. Los Angeles is among the first cities in the world to use the GPC, an internationally recognized GHG accounting and reporting standard for cities.
In September, when the Mayor hosted the U.S.-China Climate Leaders Summit, he announced that these updates would be released in time for the U.N. climate talks. The information provided in the report includes:
● An update of L.A.’s 1990 baseline inventory data utilizing GPC standards;
● A summary of the 2013 community-wide emissions inventory, the first inventory data to be published for the City in a decade;
● And evidence that L.A.’s emissions are 20% below 1990 levels, and nearly halfway to meeting the pLAn’s 2025 target to reduce GHG by 45%
“We are transforming our City day-by-day,” said Mayor Eric Garcetti. “L.A.’s electrical grid is moving toward becoming coal-free by 2025. We are getting closer to having the largest EV fleet of any city in the U.S. We are providing residents with more opportunities to go solar and drive electric — or not drive at all. And now, through the release of this data, L.A. is improving the ways we calculate and report our climate emissions data, and helping other cities do the same.”
This report delivers on Mayor Garcetti’s commitment to consistent and standardized inventories, as laid out in the Sustainable City pLAn, the Mayor’s National Climate Agenda — co-founded by Mayor Garcetti — and the Compact of Mayors.
