Program for Local and Urban Sustainability: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement and Reporting Guide

This Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement and Reporting Guide is designed to help USAID staff, Missions, and local partners measure and report GHG emissions reductions from their current and future SWM activities. It identifies available tools and methodologies for measuring GHG emissions, and provides information intended to help implementers, managers, and analysts choose the tool or methodology most appropriate for their circumstances. For each tool and methodology, the guide informs this choice with information about the applicable data inputs and outputs, as well as descriptions of its relative ease of use based upon technical complexity, length of time to complete, and data requirements. Case studies are provided, as is information about the analytic limitations of each tool and methodology.

In addition to helping USAID Missions and local partners select a tool or methodology for measuring emissions reductions, this guide provides key details about the subsequent reporting of these reductions in a complete, timely, and credible manner. Applied broadly, the guide can inform USAID efforts to establish a robust, systematic, and comprehensive approach to measuring and reporting the sum total of GHG reductions resulting from current and future waste-sector programs and activities.