Product No.: 09038A
Date Published: 12/2010
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The Regional Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory provides an accounting of greenhouse gas emissions for the nine-county DVRPC region for 2005. This inventory was carried out in close consultation with the US EPA to assure the protocol used conforms where possible to the agency's current thinking on MPO-level inventories. DVRPC also consulted with both the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey, as well as with ICLEI--Local Governments for Sustainability. The protocol used drew on the state inventories developed using the State Inventory Tool, as well as local data where available. This revision incorporates a lower emissions factor for electricity, based on new guidance from US EPA. In addition, a small number of analytical errors have been corrected. DVRPC has also created detailed estimates for each municipality's GHG emissions and energy use, to serve as a starting point for local action and analysis. The inventory allocates emissions to the each of the nine counties and 352 municipalities in the region. This sub-regional allocation excludes several emissions categories which were not feasible to allocate with available data, including emissions from aircraft, through highway traffic, some industrial fuel use, and livestock. Nonetheless, 90 percent of all emissions for the region are allocated to the county level, and 84 percent to the municipal level. Electricity and natural gas use information was collected at either the municipal or ZIP code level by customer class (residential, commercial, industrial) from each of the dozen or so utilities that serve the region. Vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the region was allocated to municipalities by assigning half of each trip to the municipality of origin and half to the destination municipality. The results clearly demonstrate that municipalities with higher density tend to produce lower per capita emissions. DVRPC will use this inventory in its work to develop policies and programs for the region to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. DVRPC will also use this inventory to support inventory efforts at the county and municipality level, as well as to support regional analysis of where investments in energy conservation and efficiency might be most productively made.Geographic Area Covered: DVRPC's nine member counties: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties in Pennsylvania; Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Mercer counties in New Jersey
Key Words: Greenhouse gas; climate change; energy; emissions; inventory
Staff Contact(s)
- Karin A. Morris, AICP (kmorris@dvrpc.org)
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