![]() Unusually and to their credit, they have also included consumption emissions – the emissions from all the stuff that is produced elsewhere for consumption in the city. These are the ones produced in the city itself. ![]() There is the direct, or sector-based, emissions. The full methodology is available, and there are two things I wanted to highlight.įirst, Corporate Knights have included two different sets of data on carbon emissions. For each of these, figures are calculated, adjusted and weighted before they are compared and ranked. In this case the index includes carbon emissions, water use, car dependency, green spaces, air pollution and several other measures. Corporate Knights’ index is – like all indices – derived from a range of different datasets combined into a single score. However, there is some devilry in the details. This is fairly standard climate reporting, telling us what we already know: that advanced Western cities are the greenest. If we were to carry on reading the index, we’d find seven in the top 20 – Canadian cities rock, basically. It doesn’t just get two into the top ten. Don’t miss the particularly glowing performance by Canada here. Europe and Oceania are also well represented. Scandinavia does very well, and having visited some cities in the region for the first time last year, I can see why. ![]() It celebrates the world’s most environmentally progressive cities, and you can probably guess some of the places that feature. Last month the sustainability research group Corporate Knights published their Sustainable Cities Index.
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