Consultants present draft community greenhouse-gas inventory showing transport, natural gas as largest sources

Cascadia consultant Jenna Decker Sherry told the City of Lake Forest Park Climate Planning Advisory Team (CPAT) that a draft community-wide greenhouse-gas inventory for 2019, 2022 and 2023 and a separate 2023 municipal inventory are underway to inform the city’s climate element.

The inventory uses locally specific utility consumption where available and regional or national datasets where local data are not available. "I do want to stress that this is a draft, so these numbers are subject to change," Decker Sherry said. She said the team prefers locally specific data and follows the U.S. Community Protocol for estimating greenhouse-gas emissions when scaling to regional datasets.

The presentation listed the primary emissions sources and the data sources being used: building energy (electricity, natural gas, fuel oil,…