ICLEI USA provided technical expertise to review city-level greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory data provided by Google Environmental Insights Explorer, a modeling tool which uses unique Google data sources to produce GHG inventory estimates for building and transportation sectors. The insights pair actual measurements of activity and infrastructure with advanced machine learning techniques to understand how people use transportation, inform factors for scaling, and account for efficiency changes in emissions estimates.
The GHG inventory data generated using the EIE tool only targeted a subset of the GHG inventory activity categories—transportation and building—and must, therefore, be combined with other data sources to create a complete inventory under either the U.S. Community Protocol or the Global Protocol for Community-Scale GHG Emissions Inventories (GPC).
