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City of Los Angeles notes municipal greenhouse-gas progress but warns community-wide targets lag
Summary
LA Sanitation presented municipal and community greenhouse-gas inventories showing the city's municipal emissions are ahead of 2025 targets while the broader community inventory lags; committee noted the report and voted to note-and-file.
The Energy and Environment Committee on June 3 heard a Bureau of Sanitation update on Los Angeles' municipal and community greenhouse-gas (GHG) inventories and voted to note and file the report.
Laura McAllister and Daniel Brim of LA Sanitation’s Climate Action Group presented the city’s 2023 inventory results. McAllister said the municipal inventory is outperforming targets: “As of 2023 we are 8% ahead of our 2025 target to be 55% reduction of our 2008 baseline data.” Daniel Brim said the community inventory shows slower progress; the city had achieved a 33% reduction against the 2008 baseline while the 2025 community goal is a 50% reduction.
Why it matters: The municipal inventory covers city operations — city-owned vehicles, facilities and services — while the community inventory covers emissions geographically within the city boundary and reflects broader consumer and commercial activity that the city can influence but not directly control.
Presenters emphasized the different drivers behind municipal and community trends. McAllister and Brim credited fleet electrification and the city’s shift away from natural gas-fired power generation for municipal improvements; Brim highlighted the transition away from coal by LADWP and pandemic-related reductions in transportation as major factors in emissions declines. Brim told the committee the city’s most recent international CDP submission earned the highest grade: “the city of Los Angeles got an A on our most recent report,” making Los Angeles one of 29 U.S. cities with that score.
Committee members pressed staff on methodology and semantics used in reporting. Brim explained municipal inventories capture city-owned vehicles and equipment while the community inventory follows the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC) and is reported at the basic level; the community inventory also tracks a broader set of scope 3 emissions in a separate reporting tier but does not use those for the headline target.
Outcome: The committee voted to note and file the Bureau of Sanitation report. The roll call showed four ayes with one member absent.
