President Clinton launched the Clinton Foundation’s Climate Initiative (CCI) in August 2006 with the mission of applying the Foundation’s business-oriented approach to the fight against climate change in practical, measurable and significant ways. In its first phase, CCI is working with the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group, an association of large cities dedicated to tackling climate change—to develop and implement a range of actions that will accelerate greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
CCI is creating a purchasing consortium to lower the price of energy saving products and mobilizing experts from around the world to provide technical assistance in developing greenhouse gas emission reduction projects. In addition, CCI seeks to create and deploy common measurement and information flow tools that will allow cities to establish a baseline on their greenhouse gas emissions, track the effectiveness of their emissions reduction programs, and share what works and does not work with each other. Greenhouse gas emissions inventories will inform where and how cities direct their mitigation activities. Common measurement systems also will allow cities to relate the emissions reductions, energy savings, cost savings, and other cobenefits of projects in foreign cities to expected benefits in their own local contexts. Our online information network will include real-time mechanisms for technical experts and policymakers in different cities to access data and to engage one another in dialogue about best practices.
The Climate Project is an online suite of websites to be developed over the next three years in partnership with Microsoft, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, and the Center for Neighborhood Technology using the knowledge base that ICLEI has acquired in developing its online Harmonized Emissions Analysis Tool (HEAT) and the desktop Clean Air and Climate Protection Software. The Climate Project is being built from the ground up, will be deployed into cities around the world, and will become the international standard for cities in their climate change accounting, mitigation, and communication efforts.
The online application will enable cities to do the following:
· Implement a common measurement system for emissions reductions
· Perform analyses of potential projects and estimate their effect on reducing emissions
· Generate structured and custom reports for users based on inventory and measures data
· Access data from around the world and engage other cities in dialogue about best practices in real time.
The Climate Project is developing the software iteratively and is planning up to three test cycles with a small number of cities this fall. Cities completed a first user survey this summer. The user tests are not yet fully structured and so this is an opportune time for a team of usability assessment students to get involved.
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This sounds very interesting; however, I am wondering if Liz or anyone has an idea of how this would work geographically. If it is supposed to be a system for large cities, this limits us to only online surveys or phone interviews, right?
Liz or Nancy, it says that the "user tests are not yet fully structured" but they have a first round of survey data - do you know if there is a usability team already working on this, or with whom would we be working (these people who have conducted a survey already)?
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