Park City, Utah Community Carbon Footprint and Road Map for Reduction
Metadata
Title:
Park City, Utah Community Carbon Footprint and Road Map for Reduction
Creator:
Brendle Group
Publisher:
Park City (Utah)
Agency:
Park City (Utah); Space Dynamics Laboratory; USU Huntsman School of Business; Utah State University
Date Published:
2009
Pages:
80 p.
Description:
The Community Carbon Footprint and Roadmap to Reduction is the latest effort among Park City’s many initiatives to address climate change. Among many other initiatives are Park City Municipal’s Environmental Strategic Plan to guide the community’s comprehensive sustainability efforts; Park City’s signing of the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement; community engagements such as Save Our Snow; efforts to reduce Park City Municipal’s own GHG footprint of internal government operations and the many projects and programs lead by Park City’s many environmental non-profits To develop the Community Carbon Footprint, Park City’s GHG emissions were calculated for the baseline year of 2007 as well as for 2005 as a supplemental year, with the aim to compile a complete, consistent, accurate, and transparent inventory using accepted methodologies. Specifically, the inventory draws on well reviewed and accepted methodologies from the International Standards Organization (ISO)14064-1, The Climate Registry (TCR), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and methodologies implemented in ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability’s Clean Air and Climate Protection (CACP) software. The fundamental design of the inventory is based on the guidelines of ISO14064-1 with additional guidance from ICLEI’s International Local Government Greenhouse Gas Emissions Analysis Protocol to address issues specific to conducting community inventories. The footprint includes the following GHGs: 1. carbon dioxide (CO2), 2. methane (CH4), 3. nitrous oxide (N2O), 4. perfluorocarbons (PFCs), 5. hydroflurocarbons (HFCs), and 6. sulfur hexafluoride (SF6).
Type (DCMI):
Text
Type (Utah):
Report; Plan
Internet Media Type:
application/pdf
Language:
eng
Topic:
Government; Natural resources
Subject (LCSH):
Local government; Local government--Planning; Municipal government; Municipal government--Planning; Climatic changes; Climate change mitigation; Environmental protection; Greenhouse gas mitigation; Pollution prevention; Renewable energy sources; Power resources
Place:
Park City, Summit County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5779451/, 40.64606, -111.49797
Rights:
The Utah State Library Division considers state publications made available by state agencies and political subdivisions as required by Utah Code Ann. § 9-7-201 to 9-7-209 to be in the public domain under U.S. copyright law (17 U.S.C.). All informational materials in this government publication are in the public domain, and as such, are not restricted by copyright law unless otherwise stated.