Sustainability

E. Total Community-wide Emissions

2021 Community-wide GHG emissions

Total community wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for Washoe County in 2021 were 6.32 million metric tons (MMT) carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). 37% of emissions come from Transportation, 22% from Commercial Energy, 20% from Residential Energy, 15% from Industrial Energy, 2% from Solid Waste, 3% from Process & Fugitive Emissions, 1% from Water & Wastewater, and less than 1% from Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU). This inventory includes emissions for City of Reno, City of Sparks, and Unincorporated Washoe County. It was calculated using ICLEI’s Clearpath software, and it uses 100-year global warming potentials (GWPs) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 6th Assessment Report (AR).

2021 Washoe County Community Emissions (MMT CO2e)

Community-wide GHG emissions by sector, 2021
Sector	MMT CO2e	Percent
Transportation & Mobile Sources	2.32	37%
Commercial Energy	1.42	22%
Residential Energy	1.23	20%
Industrial Energy	0.93	15%
Solid Waste	0.13	2%
Process & Fugitive Emissions	0.19	3%
Water & Wastewater	0.09	1%
TOTAL	6.32	100%

The following sections explain operations and Inventory methodology 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
9. Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU)