The Climate Registry


The Climate Registry is a non-profit organization governed by U.S. states and Canadian provinces and territories. TCR designs and operates voluntary and compliance greenhouse gas reporting programs globally, and assists organizations in measuring, reporting and verifying the carbon in their operations in order to manage and reduce it. TCR also consults with governments nationally and internationally on all aspects of GHG measurement, reporting, and verification.

History

Established in 2007, The Climate Registry was formed to continue the work of the California Climate Action Registry. Created by the State of California in 2001, CCAR promoted and protected businesses’ early actions to manage and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Through the state mandate, CCAR established protocols to guide emissions inventories and manage an online reporting tool, the Climate Action Registry Reporting Tool, to serve as a central database for emissions reports. Members of CCAR served as true leaders in environmental responsibility and were among the first in the world to measure their emissions according to comprehensive and rigorous standards and make their emissions publicly accessible online. Together, CCAR and its members influenced California climate change policy, including Assembly Bill 32, and worked to ensure proper recognition from the state for early actions to reduce emissions. Recognizing climate change is a global issue and that success in emissions reporting must be based on consistent data in an integrated system that stretched beyond California’s borders, CCAR was instrumental in establishing TCR with the mission of expanding CCAR’s emissions reporting work to include all of North America. CCAR accepted its last emissions inventory reports for 2009 in December 2010 and officially transitioned its members to The Climate Registry. CCAR is now a program of The Climate Registry’s sister organization, the Climate Action Reserve.

Participants

At the launch of The Climate Registry, the following were the participants:
US States:
Arizona

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Hawaii

Illinois

Kansas

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

Montana

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Utah

Vermont

Washington

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Canadian provinces:

British Columbia

Manitoba

Ontario

Newfoundland and Labrador
As of September 24, 2009 all Canadian Provinces and Territories are participating in the greenhouse gas registry.
Yukon

Northwest Territories

Nunavut

British Columbia

Alberta

Saskatchewan

Manitoba
Ontario

Quebec

Newfoundland and Labrador
Prince Edward Island
New Brunswick

Nova Scotia

Native American tribes: