WWF-SA and ICLEI Africa have partnered on the One Planet City Challenge (OPCC) to assist African districts, metros and municipalities to submit their climate action plans or projects via the CDP ICLEI Unified Reporting System (URS), motivating the need, and highlighting opportunities, for both adaptation and mitigation initiatives at the local level. In addition, ICLEI Africa provides technical assistance and training on CDP ICLEI Track reporting to new OPCC participants, and further assist existing participants as needed on new actions being reported.
Disclosing environmental data through CDP provides cities with improved engagement on climate activities, and centralizes data and tracks progress. CDP provides cities with all publicly available data, evaluates cities' responses, benchmarks performance against peers, and also finds areas of opportunity or improvement for cities.
Through previous iterations of OPCC, participating cities have reported a total emissions reduction potential of 3.9Gt GHG (by 2050) using CDP-ICLEI’s globally recognized reporting system.