Global Covenant of Mayors unveils new data framework for 2019

The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) will release a new framework for reporting urban greenhouse gas emissions in cities in 2019.

Amanda Eichel, Executive Director of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy

The new framework will sync climate data from cities around the world and make data available across open platforms for urban centres to learn from each other. Cities will also be able to quantify and compare their results, the impact of which will be consistent for the first time with those of national governments.

Amanda Eichel, Executive Director of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, told Cities Today: “The effort of developing ...