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Technical Analysis of Google Environmental Insights Explorer

Google EIE
Back Completed Start date: 01.03.2019 End date: 01.09.2019
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What we did

Developing an inventory of GHG emissions is a fundamental step to city climate action planning. Many cities find the process to be complex and time-consuming, therefore ICLEI continuously works to streamline and simplify this process. Google announced in early 2019 that it was harnessing building energy and transportation data in an attempt to provide an estimated snapshot of GHG emissions at the city scale. ICLEI evaluated this data to help local government practitioners understand the impacts of using the data in their inventories.

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What we achieved

ICLEI USA GHG experts provided Google with a technical review of the city-level greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory data provided by the Google Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE). Staff provided a comparison to other data sources commonly used in local community-scale GHG inventories. This analysis will increase awareness and understanding for cities that wish to use EIE data in the development of GHG inventories.

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  • Zero emission development
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Buildings Date GHG Emissions Inventory Google Transport
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