After the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the City of New Orleans has returned to state of near normalcy. Most of the sights familiar to vacationers remain or have been restored, but much of the city will never be the same.

This is doubly true because of the renewed spotlight on sustainability. The great lesson of the storms is not merely one of levies and emergency response; Katrina and Rita are reminders of the raw power of the natural world, and the city has since become a focal point for adaptive and sustainable growth.

ICLEI is pleased to offer a sneak peak of the City of New Orleans 2009 Carbon Report, to be formally released at the end of the month. The report details the efforts of city staff, partner groups, and residents to innovatively and mindfully reinvent New Orleans neighborhoods and infrastructure.

Also contained in the report are “before and after” emissions inventories for both government operations and the community. You can compare for yourself the effects that the storms had on emissions.

ICLEI would like to thank John Moore of the City of New Orleans for sharing the report with us.

Read the Full Carbon Footprint Report