On April 25, 2011, City Council received a report from ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability and accepted the 2005 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory. ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) is a membership association of local governments committed to advancing climate protection and sustainable development. The City of Del Mar Advisory Committee, Sustainability Advisory Board, in their efforts to address climate change, recommended the City participate in The San Diego Regional Climate Protection Initiative.  The San Diego Regional Climate Protection Initiative is a joint effort between The San Diego Foundation, ICLEI, and 10 local governments in San Diego County. 

The report is an estimate of greenhouse gas emissions in 2005 resulting from the City of Del Mar’s government operations and from the community-at-large. All government operations emissions estimates in the report refer to emissions generated from sources over which the City has direct operational control, except the emissions generated from employees’ commute. The sources the City has direct control include all government-operated facilities, streetlights, and other stationary sources; the on-road vehicle fleet and off-road equipment; and waste generated by government operations.  The inventory also estimates emissions from the community-at-large. Community-scale emissions are reported by five primary sectors: residential, commercial/industrial, transportation, solid waste and wastewater.

This inventory uses the protocol developed by the California Air Resource Board (CARB) in conjunction with ICLEI, the California Climate Action Registry and The Climate Registry. This standard, called the Local Government Operations Protocol (LGO Protocol), provides standard accounting principles, boundaries, quantification methods, and procedures for reporting greenhouse gas emissions from local government operations.

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