LAKS project
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Posting Date | 16 January 2012
Geographic Coverage | International
Available link languages | English , Italian
Type of Link | National and regional energy agencies and organisations
The LAKs project (Local Accountability for Kyoto goalS) aims at showing the cities potential in grasping existing opportunities and synergies to actively contribute to the achievement of the Kyoto goals, and more actual, the targets set by the European Commission within the Climate Action and renewable energy package approved in December 2008 and the targets set by the Covenant of Mayor campaign
The main objective of the now-completed LAKS (Local Accountability for Kyoto goalS) project was to provide instruments to European cities to monitor CO2 emissions, assess their environmental impact, apply corrective actions and report results. Following the LAKS project, enhancements to simplify reporting to the Covenant of Mayors were incorporated into ICLEI Europe’s Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) GHG calculator.
The LAKS guidelines which have been developed as a result of the project and are now available to cities across Europe to ease their transition to sustainable mobility.
A user-friendly LAKS GHG calculator tool was also developed to compile emission inventories, allowing project partners to convert the energy consumption of their territory into greenhouse gas emissions. The developments took place within the framework of LAKS, with the contribution of the LIFE financial instrument of the European Community
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