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Littleton staff presents greenhouse-gas inventory showing about 464,000 metric tons CO2e baseline
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Staff presented a community and local-government greenhouse‑gas inventory to the Littleton Environmental Stewardship Board showing a baseline of roughly 464,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent and identifying buildings, transportation and municipal facilities as the largest sources. The presentation outlined next steps — climate modeling,
Staff presented the findings of a greenhouse‑gas inventory to the Littleton Environmental Stewardship Board, saying the city’s baseline is roughly 464,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year and identifying commercial energy, transportation and residential energy as the largest sectors.
The inventory, compiled with support from ICLEI and using IPCC (2023) emissions factors, separated a community‑wide inventory from a local‑government operations inventory so the city could see which emissions it controls directly. The presenter said commercial energy accounted for the single largest share (about 33.05 percent), transportation and mobile sources were the second largest, and residential energy the third.
The presentation explained scope definitions used in greenhouse‑gas accounting: scope 1 for direct emissions, scope 2 for purchased electricity and heat,…
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