Local Government Lessons on Emissions Inventories

More and more local governments, state governments, and corporations

now report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Soon, federal

agencies will be required to inventory the annual emissions

from their buildings, fleets, and other sources.A daunting challenge for any

public manager, the process of conducting an emissions inventory can be

lengthy and complex. In hindsight, few inventory veterans could have guessed

that their effort would require studying the minutiae of, say, how to track