Sustainability

Community Greenhouse Gas Inventory

Draft, November 2024

Washoe County, like many other governments around the world, has committed to measuring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) in our community. This Community GHG Inventory estimates the quantity of GHG emissions and removals associated with community sources and activities taking place during calendar year 2021.

This Community GHG Inventory is part of the larger Washoe County Climate Action Plan, which has the following sections:

• Climate Action Plan Introduction 
• County Operations Climate Action Plan 
• Community GHG Inventory (this page)
• Community Climate Action Plan

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Download the draft Community GHG Inventory PDF 

Document

A. Executive Summary
B. Climate in Washoe County
C. What are GHG emissions, and why is Washoe County measuring them?
D. GHG Inventory methodology
E. GHG Inventory results by sector

1. Transportation
2. Energy Methodology
3. Residential Energy
4. Commercial Energy
5. Industrial Energy
6. Solid Waste
7. Water and Wastewater
8. Process and Fugitive Emissions
9. Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU)

F.  Community-wide GHG emissions forecast
G. Next steps: Working together as a community to reduce GHGs

Appendices

1. Contributors
2. Glossary
3. Abbreviations
4. Comparison of 2014 and 2021 emissions data for Washoe County
5. Total emissions from 2008 and 2014 Community-wide Inventories
6. Description of "Nonroad" Transportation Sources
7. Definitions of customer types from energy utilities
8. Commercial and industrial jobs in Washoe County, 2021
9. Definitions of Solid Waste material categories
10. Land Use Change matrices, 2013 to 2019