Small Business Today Magazine SEP 2014 ELP ENTERPRISES | Page 16

EDITORIALFEATURE

Measure to Manage:

Measurement & Data To Advance Houston’s Climate Agenda
By Annise Parker, Mayor of the City of Houston

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ou can’t manage what you don’t
measure.  It is an old adage that
remains true today.  I believe that
unless you measure critical success
factors you cannot know if your plans and
programs are getting better or worse.

The City of Houston looks at three areas very closely when we are evaluating
greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction progress:  energy use, transportation, and waste.
In the City’s 2007 Community GHG emissions inventory, 58 percent of GHG emissions came from the building and industrial
energy sector, 32 percent from the transportation sector, and 10 percent from the
waste sector.

We have focused on th