7.4 GHG emissions inventory

7.4. Conduct a baseline GHG emission inventory for each community to identify the largest emitters, with ongoing monitoring and reporting of community-wide emissions beginning in 2020 to track success.

7.4 GHG emissions inventory

District of Squamish
• Noted Greenhouse Gas Reductions creating a warmer trend, but it’s important not to lose sight of air pollution, need to consider adapting to the warmer trend
• Many communities challenged with the provincial database
• Squamish requested more GHG data from ICBC

Islands Trust
• Working with My Sea to Sky to test climate action report card tool

Bowen Island
• working on a community energy and emissions plan update for Bowen Island. Rely on provincial data for land use, which is from 2010 where they only consider permanent change.
• Transportation data from 2012 with data based on a lot of assumptions. ICBC asking for odometer readings.
• Some data from 2017 which is great (i.e land use waste emissions data, building consumption).
• The plan is currently built on imperfect data; don't have the staffing capacity or expertise to refine the old provincial data.

Town of Gibsons
• Plans to reduce and track GHG emissions for municipal infrastructure.  Reducing and tracking GHG for the municipality itself is more difficult.
• Signed 4 years partnership with the Nicholas Sonntag Marine Education Centre to collect data in the harbour (data collection, surveying, etc)