Measuring Sustainability
View City of Surrey's Sustainability Dashboard to see the award-winning progress we're making on sustainability.
The City of Surrey Sustainability Dashboard is an online platform that tracks and shares the progress of Surrey's sustainability indicators over time. It provides a transparent, user-friendly and publicly accessible report card on our sustainability achievements.
The City's Sustainability Charter 2.0 ensures we have a long-term community vision that continues to reflect the priorities and needs of our city. Through this process, we have refined the set indicators that will ensure we are measuring impactful outcomes and tell us if we are hitting the mark on sustainability.
World Council on City Data Portal
In November 2015, the City of Surrey pursued ISO 37120 certification, a new global standard for measuring the sustainable development of communities. The certification complements the 'made-in-Surrey' Sustainability Dashboard and facilitates benchmarking our progress against other global cities that are leading on sustainability.
Based on the first international standard on city data, ISO 37120, the World Council on City Data (WCCD) Open Data Portal allows you to see how Surrey measures up to other member cities on up to 100 service performance and quality of life indicators.
GHG Emissions and Climate Action
As a signatory to the BC Climate Action Charter, the City of Surrey is committed to publicly reporting corporate and community greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions each year, along with providing updates on steps the City is taking to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
We also report our corporate and community greenhouse gas emissions through the Carbon Disclosure Project, which is aligned with the reporting requirements of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.