Revisiting Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Inventories

The document examines the lack of a broadly accepted standard for measuring local greenhouse gas emissions and highlights the difficulty of accounting for emissions from goods and materials produced or consumed outside community boundaries. It notes that current efforts primarily focus on in-boundary energy use and suggests that industry should be analyzed separately to improve effectiveness.

• There is currently no universally accepted standard for measuring greenhouse gas emissions at the local level to track progress toward climate goals, although various protocols are being developed.
• A significant challenge in community-scale inventories is determining how to account for emissions related to goods and materials that are produced in the community but consumed elsewhere, or consumed in the community but produced elsewhere.
• Most current community-scale GHG assessments focus on energy use within boundaries, which supports actions regarding transportation and buildings; however, the authors propose that industry be removed from these inventories and analyzed separately from both production and consumption perspectives.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2012). Revisiting Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Inventories. https://www.sei.org/publications/revisiting-community-scale-greenhouse-gas-inventories/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Revisiting Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Inventories. 2012. https://www.sei.org/publications/revisiting-community-scale-greenhouse-gas-inventories/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2012revisiting, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Revisiting Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Inventories}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2012}, month = apr, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/revisiting-community-scale-greenhouse-gas-inventories/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }