Daly City's Green Vision - City of Daly City

Step 9: Report Emissions
The master data sheet also contains the LGOP Standard Reporting Template, which is the template adopted by ARB
as the official reporting template for government operations emissions inventory. This tool, as well as the charts and
graphs tool provided by ICLEI can be used to report emissions from government operations. Also, local government
staff should utilize this narrative report as guide for a narrative report if they so choose.
Step 10: Standardize and Compare to Base Year
Conducting a monitoring inventory is meant to serve as a measuring point against the baseline year represented in
this report. In order to make a more accurate comparison, it is necessary to standardize emissions from stationary
sources based upon heating and cooling degree days (staff can use a ratio of heating /cooling degree days to
standardize across years).
In addition, it is important, when comparing emissions across years, to clearly understand where emissions levels
may have changed due to a change in methodology or due to excluding an emissions source. For example, if the
default method was used to estimate refrigerant leakage in 2005 (this method highly overestimates these emissions),
and the recommended method was available in a monitoring year, this would appear as a dramatic reduction in these
emissions even though actual leaked refrigerants may be similar to the base year. Changes such as these should not
be seen as progress toward or away from an emissions reduction target, but emissions estimates should be adjusted
to create as much of an apples-to-apples comparison as possible. If such an adjustment is not possible, staff should
clearly note the change in methodology between years when comparing emissions.
2005 Daly City Government Operations Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory XXIII