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Table 16: “Other” Community GHG Emissions by Sector, 2005 <br />“Other” Emissions <br />Sectors <br />GHG Emissions <br />(metric tons of <br />CO2e) <br />Percentage of <br />Total Community <br />Emissions (%) <br />Wastewater <br />Facilities 4,213 0.08 <br />Water Delivery <br />Facilities 2,240 0.04 <br /> <br />Per Capita Emissions  <br />Per capita emissions can be a useful metric for measuring progress in reducing greenhouse gases <br />and for comparing one community’s emissions with neighboring cities and against regional and <br />national averages. Currently it is difficult to make meaningful comparisons between cities <br />because of variation in the scope of inventories conducted, but this will be possible in the near <br />future when a universal reporting standard is completed and adopted through a process driven by <br />ICLEIiii. <br />Dividing the 2005 total community GHG emissions by populationxiv yields a result of <br />approximately 15.64xv metric tons CO2e per capita per year. It is important to reiterate that the <br />per capita emissions number for University City is not directly comparable to every per capita <br />number produced by other emissions studies because of differences in emission inventory <br />methods. As a general comparison, the World Bank estimated the 2005 U.S. per capita CO2e <br />emissions at approximately 19.7 metric tons per capitaxvi. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />2010-2011 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, City of University City, MO 24 <br /> <br />