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Operational and Community
Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Therese Dorau
Director, Office of Sustainability
February 18, 2019
Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Value of a GHG Inventory
Most Value
•Create a baseline
•Track changes and trends over
time
•Identify best emissions-
reduction opportunities
•Source, sector, fuel type
•Better understand sources and
impacts
Least Value
•Comparison between
communities
•Exact quantification of
emissions or emissions
reductions
GHG Measurement: Top-down or Bottom-up?
Operational
Inventory
2016
Community-
Scale
Inventory
2018
Basics of Scopes and Gases
City of South Bend’s
Operational Emissions
Stationary Electricity
Mobile Wastewater
Primary Sources of GHGs
Stationary
Combustion
13.3%
Mobile
Combustion
20.4%
Wastewater
Treatment
1.0%
Electricity
65.3%
Total Emissions by Source
Total City of South Bend Emissions (MT CO2e)
CO2 CH4 N2O Total Percentage
Scope 1 16,690 138 310 17,138 41%
Scope 2 24,962 8 117 25,087 59%
Total Emissions 41,652 146 427 42,225 100%
Total Emissions by Scope
Mayor's Office
0.3%City Clerk's Office
0.3%Legal
0.2%Code Enforcement
0.9%Century Center
5.9%
Morris and Palais
2.5%Building
0.3%Admin & Finance
0.6%Police
10.2%Fire
5.1%
Community Investment
0.4%Parks & Recreation
8.8%
PW --Engineering
and Admin
16.0%
PW --Central Services
7.7%
PW --Solid Waste
9.6%
PW --Utilities
25.4%
PW --Streets and Sewers
5.9%
Total Emissions By Department
•Electricity for
pumps and
treatment (66%)Utilities (25%)
•Street lights (97%)Engineering
(16%)
•Vehicles (66%)Police
(10%)
Primary Source in Top 3 Departments
South Bend’s
Community Emissions
Community Inventory Process
•Commitment to Global Covenant
•ICLEI
•Training and support
•ClearPath software
•Global Protocol for Community-
Scale GHG Emission Inventories
•Required scopes, calculations, factors
•Standards →high-quality, repeatable inventory
•Carbon Disclosure Project
Boundary and Scopes –Global Protocol
NIPSCO
Indiana Michigan Power
Wastewater
Treatment
South Shore Line SBN
X X
Transit
Passenger
Freight
Rail
Aircraft
Construction
Lawn Care
NIPSCO
Various
Landfills
Boundary and Scopes –South Bend
Community GHG Inventory Results (CY 2017)
Sector Pct
Transportation & Mobile
Sources 31%
Solid Waste 4%
Water & Wastewater 0%
Commercial Energy 21%
Industrial Energy 21%
Residential Energy 20%
Process & Fugitive Emissions 3%
Community GHG Inventory Results (CY 2017)
Scope 1 63.3%
Scope 2 30.4%
Scope 3 6.3%
1,294,599 MT CO2e total
12.7 MT for every resident
Govt = 3.3%
Thank You!
Therese Dorau
Director, Office of
Sustainability
(574) 235-9323
tdorau@southbendin.gov
www.southbendin.gov/
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