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of National Inventories) and the U.S. Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reporting Guidelines (EIA <br />from1605). <br />The CACP software has been and continues to be used by over 300 U.S. cities, towns, and <br />counties to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. However, it is worth noting that, although the <br />software provides University City with a sophisticated and useful tool, calculating emissions <br />from energy use with precision is difficult. The model depends upon numerous assumptions, and <br />it is limited by the quantity and quality of available data. With this in mind, it is useful to think <br />of any specific number generated by the model as an approximation of reality, rather than an <br />exact value. <br />Creating the Inventory <br />Creating this emissions inventory required the collection of information from a variety of sources <br />including: AmerenUE, East-West Gateway Council, Laclede Gas, Missouri American Water and <br />the City of University City staff. Data from the year 2005 was used to perform both the <br />community and municipal assessments. One of the first major steps of the inventory was to <br />define each assessment’s organizational boundaries, in terms of the operations that the local <br />government owns and controls, and the community’s operational boundaries as a whole. The <br />municipal inventory is effectively a subset of the community-scale inventory (the two are not <br />mutually exclusive).iii Upon making this distinction, emissions are categorized as direct or <br />indirect and then further classified by the scope of accounting and reporting. The Local <br />Government Operations Protocol, developed by ICLEI to serve as the primary manual for GHG <br />emissions inventories, recommends dividing GHG emissions by the following scopes in order to <br />improve transparency and to provide utility for different types of climate policies and goalsv: <br />Scope 1v - All direct GHG emissions. Direct emissions are emissions from sources within the <br />local government’s organizational boundaries that the local government owns or controls (i.e. <br />emissions from sources within University City’s city limits). Scope 1 emissions are further <br />subdivided into emissions resulting from four (4) separate types of sources: <br />• Stationary combustion [emissions] of fuels to produce electricity, steam, heat, or power <br />using equipment in a fixed location. <br />• Mobile combustion [emissions] of fuels in fleet transportation sources and off-road <br />equipment. <br />• Process emissions from physical or chemical processing, other than fuel combustion; and <br />• Fugitive emissions that are not physically controlled, but result from intentional or <br />unintentional releases, commonly arising from the production, processing, transmission, <br />storage, and use of fuels and other substances, often through joints, seals, packing, <br />gaskets, etc. <br /> <br />2010-2011 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, City of University City, MO 13 <br /> <br />Scope 2v - Indirect emissions resulting from the consumption of purchased or acquired <br />electricity, steam, heating and cooling. Indirect GHG emissions are a consequence of activities <br />that take place within the organizational boundaries of the entity, but that occur at the sources
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