North America
The Climate Registry is a collaboration between over 40 states, provinces and tribes in the United States, Canada, and Mexico to develop and manage a common and unified greenhouse gas emissions reporting system. The Climate Registry is designed to support various greenhouse gas emission reporting and reduction policies for its member states, provinces, and tribes and reporting entities, based on data that is accurate, complete, consistent, transparent and verified. The Registry consists of a voluntary entity-wide reporting program as well as the infrastructure to collect and track greenhouse gas data reported to state mandatory and regulatory programs.
The Climate Registry is founded on the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard. WRI provided technical support and facilitation throughout the development process to ensure capability with the GHG Protocol.
The Climate Registry is an effort to unify existing U.S. state and regional registries also founded on the GHG Protocol and facilitated by WRI. These include the California Climate Action Registry, the first state-level corporate GHG registry in the U.S. with current participation from 300 reporting companies, and the Eastern Climate Registry, a joint project of several Northeast states. The Climate Registry represents the joint efforts of California and the Northeast, together with states in the Midwest, Western, and Southeast U.S., to create a single unified greenhouse gas emissions registry, supported by states, provinces, and tribes across North America.
The Climate Registry will become operational and accept reported emissions data beginning in early 2008. See www.theclimateregistry.org for more information on The Climate Registry and www.climateregistry.org for more information on the California Climate Action Registry.
