I thought ICLEI’s standards were voluntary. How do the protocol’s requirements fit into a voluntary program?
• Local government participation in ICLEI’s programs and adherence to these standards will remain entirely voluntary. These standards are established in order to create greater consistency among ICLEI members, with other greenhouse gas management programs and with an eye toward complying with potential future regulatory systems. At this time, ICLEI is not proposing a verification mechanism to demonstrate compliance with these standards. ICLEI will continue to encourage standardization, and most of our members will use this protocol because doing so will help make the impact and importance of their actions clear, because it brings greater rigor to comparative analysis and because it will strengthen local governments’ position in emerging carbon markets. However, we acknowledge that some governments will have a valid rational for doing their inventory in another way and may choose to deviate from these standards on a case by case basis.
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