Sustainability

Community Greenhouse Gas Inventory

January 2025

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:

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Document

Introduction from the BCC Chair
Washoe County Mission, Vision

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. Total emissions from 2008 and 2014 Community-wide Inventories
  5. Comparison of 2014 and 2021 emissions data for Washoe County 
  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

Acknowledgements

The Washoe County Community Emissions Reduction Plan was developed by the Office of the County Manager, Sustainability Division, with support from a Fuse Corps Executive Fellow. Development of the plan would not have been possible without leadership from the County Manager’s Office and collaboration across county and regional agencies. A list of local specialists who provided operations data for 2021 Washoe County Inventory is in Appendix 1.

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