This tool can help you do the following:

• Create emissions inventories for the community as a whole or for the government's internal operations.
• Quantify the effect of existing and proposed emissions reduction measures.
• Predict future emissions levels.
• Set reduction targets and track progress towards meeting those goals.

How to Access CACP 2009

• View the Eligible Recipients page.
  
• Local government staff: If you are an ICLEI primary staff liaison or primary elected liaison, or if you are a staff member who has previously been granted access to download CACP, click the "Download" button. You will be prompted for your ICLEI member username and password, after which you can download the software.
• If you are on staff at an ICLEI member local government but do not have a member username and password, or you are a consultant, NACAA member, NARUC member, or NASEO member, please click the "Register Now" button to submit your information. You will then be contacted about how to download the software, assuming that you are an eligible recipient. If you are unsure about your eligibility, click on "Register Now."
• Trouble accessing the software? E-mail cacp-software@iclei.org. Forgotten your member username and password? E-mail membership-usa@iclei.org.

More About This Software

In 2001, ICLEI joined forces with the National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to build a software product that helps local governments create greenhouse gas inventories, quantify the benefits of reduction measures, and formulate local climate action plans. The result -- the original CACP Software -- has been helping local governments for five years develop climate action plans that harmonize strategies to reduce both greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions.

In 2008, ICLEI partnered with the California Air resources Board and the California Climate  Action Registry to develop LGOP. This emerging standard describes methods and data requirements that, in some cases, differed from those in the original CACP. ICLEI is releasing CACP 2009 to support LGOP.