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y ICLEI, is called the Five-Milestone Process and is utilized by over 550 local governments in the U.S. to structure their climate protection efforts. The process is as follows: Milestone 1: Conduct a baseline emissions inventory and forecast Milestone 2: Adopt an emissions reduction target for the forecast year Milestone 3: Develop a local climate action plan Milestone 4: Implement the climate action plan Milestone 5: Monitor progress and report results Figure 1.1 The Five-Milestone Process Leadership Commitment Milestone 1 Inventory Emissions Milestone 2 Establish Target Milestone 5 Monitor/Evaluate Progress Milestone 3 Develop Climate Action Plan Milestone 4 Implement Climate Action Plan 2. Emissions Inventory Methodology 2.1 Methodology Standards As local governments all over the world continue to rapidly join the climate protection movement, the need for a standardized approach to quantifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is more pressing than ever. The community emissions inventory follows the standard outlined in the draft International Local Government GHG Emissions Analysis Protocol (IEAP). ICLEI has been developing this guidance since the inception of its Cities for Climate Protection Campaign in 1993, and has recently formalized version 1 of the IEAP as a means to set a common framework for all local government worldwide. Using this framework, ICLEI has worked with California Air Resources Board (ARB), the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, the Metropolitan Transportation 2005 Daly City Community-Wide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory
Commissions, and other state and regional agencies to develop a common method for inventorying community emissions in the Bay Area. This method has been used by the majority of local governments in the Bay Area. ARB is currently working to establish a community greenhouse gas methodology specifically for California local governments. This methodology will serve as a corollary to the recently adopted Local Government Operations Protocol (LGOP). The LGOP, which ARB adopted in 2008, serves as the national standard for quantifying and reporting greenhouse emissions from local government operations. 2.2 Baseline Years An initial aspect of the emissions inventory process is the requirement to select a base year for emissions, which will be used to establish a baseline emissions inventory against which all future inventories will be compared. A good baseline year is the earliest year where there is accurate and complete data for all key emission sources. It is also preferable to establish a base year several years in the past to be able to account for the emissions benefits of recent actions. A local government’s emissions inventory should comprise of all greenhouse gas emissions occurring during a selected calendar year. For the reasons mentioned above, this inventory utilizes 2005 as the baseline year, as this year is increasingly becoming the standard for such inventories. This is in line with state guidance, which, while establishing its baseline year as 1990, has recognized that locla governments do not have complete data going back that far. Therefore, ARB recommended that local governments use a “current” or recent year as a baseline. . After setting a base year and conducting an emissions inventory for that year, local governments should make it a practice to complete a comprehensive emissions inventory on a regular basis to compare to the baseline year. ICLEI recommends conducting an emissions inventory at least every five years. 2.3 Boundaries of Greenhouse Gas Inventory Analysis Any inventory is a subset of measurable emissions based upon a certain boundary. The boundary of this community inventory is emissions that result from activities taking place within the geopolitical boundary of the local government’s community, over which the local government has direct control. 26 This boundary is used because activities that occur within the community boundary can be controlled or influenced by jurisdictional policies and programs. Though a local government cannot maintain direct control of all emissions sources within its boundaries, it is still important to inventory these emissions as local government policies and programs can still have an indirect influence on these emissions. For example, although much of the traffic on state highways within a jurisdiction can 26 Sphere of Influence areas are generally not considered in community-scale inventories since a local government maintains only indirect control over these areas. 2005 Daly City Community-Wide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory
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Daly City’s Green Vision A Climat
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Chapter 1: Introduction While the s
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Chapter 2: Meaningful Action Alread
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Emissions Inventory - With grant fu
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Fleet Management - The City’s fle
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Goal 2 - Decrease Landfill Bound Wa
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Goal 7 - Beneficially Reuse Wastewa
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Goal 10 - Seek to Achieve the Emiss
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Appendix A Daly City’s Leadership
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Pollution and Toxin Reduction Purch
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Operations Use of skylights to redu
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To the extent practicable, no clean
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Going Green Promoting Sustainabilit
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Appendix B Resolution Adopting the
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Partners Joint Venture: Silicon Val
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Appendix A: The Local Government Op
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List of Figures ES.1 2005 Daly City
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Introduction Local governments play
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