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GHG Emissions Inventory Guide

The GHG Emissions Inventory Guide is meant to aid future members of the Burlington Climate Action Planning team in regularly and efficiently tracking municipal greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by city facilities, fleet, services and operational practices. The document is a work in progress, encapsulating lessons learned from previous GHG inventories and anticipating challenges ahead. Therefore, readers are invited to write to the author directly for questions or clarification by emailing Nathaly.AgostoFilion@gmail.com.

The chapters are organized in order to most easily facilitate data entry into Burlington’s current GHG accounting tool, Clean Air and Climate Protection Software (CACP 2009). This tool, provided free-of-charge to all members of ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, offers Burlington a way to measure, track and report its GHG emissions as compared to other municipalities of a similar size and character. However, CAP leaders recognize the software has a number of challenges and are exploring alternatives for use into the future. As a result, the author has provided guidance that can be followed regardless of the specific tool selected, based on instructions provided in the Local Government Operations Protocol (LGOP), released in May of 2010. The LGOP was developed and adopted by a consortium of organizations leading the way in the field of local climate action and provides a standardized, rigorous and internationally-recognized approach for quantifying and reporting GHG emissions associated with government operations. As such, this guidebook is meant to encompass the latest in best practices for completing a Burlington municipal GHG emissions inventory.

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