County of San Diego 2005/2006 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory

Appendix E:
Conducting a Monitoring Inventory
The purpose of this appendix is to assist San Diego County staff in conducting a monitoring inventory to measure
progress against the baseline established in this inventory report. Conducting such an inventory represents milestone
five of the Five- Milestone Process, and allows a local government to assess how well it is progressing toward
achieving its emissions reduction targets.
This inventory was conducted by ICLEI in conjunction with the Advance Planning Group in the Department of
Planning and Land Use at the County of San Diego, who provided resources and assisted in gathering data for the
inventory. To facilitate a monitoring inventory, ICLEI has documented all of the raw data, data sources, and
calculation methods used in this inventory. Future inventories should seek to replicate or improve upon the data and
methods used in this inventory. Wherever possible, however, ICLEI strongly recommends institutionalizing internal
data collection in order to be able to meet the recommended methods outlined in LGOP.
E.1 ICLEI Tools for Local Governments
ICLEI has created a number of tools for the County of San Diego to use to assist them in future monitoring
inventories. These tools are designed to work in conjunction with LGOP, which is, and will remain, the primary
reference document for conducting an emissions inventory. These tools include:
• A “master data sheet” that contains most or all of the raw data (including emails), data sources,
emissions calculations, data templates, notes on inclusions and exclusions, and reporting tools (charts
and graphs and the excel version of LGOP reporting tool).
• A copy of all electronic raw data, such as finance records or Excel spreadsheets.
• LGOP reporting tool (included in the master data sheet and in Appendix B) that has all activity data,
emissions factors, and methods used to calculate emissions for this inventory.
• Sector-specific instructions that discuss the types of emissions, emissions calculations methods, and
data required to calculate emissions from each sector, as well as instructions for using the data
collection tools and calculators in the master data sheet.
• The appendices in this report include detailed methodology for calculating emissions from Scope 3
government-generated solid waste.
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