Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory One of the most effective
tools to understand a community’s impact towards global warming
is a greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) inventory. This process
includes taking an inventory of carbon dioxide equivalent
(CO2e), or greenhouse gas emissions, over a given period of
time. Keene completed such an inventory in 2000, using 1995 as a
baseline year and set two separate targets: 1) 10% reduction
below 1995 levels for the community as a whole and, 2) 20%
reduction for municipal emissions. An update to the 2000 GHG
inventory is currently under way and needs to be completed. Once
the inventory update is completed, it will be amended to this
plan to assist in identifying new reduction targets as well as
future actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for both
community and municipal emissions. Preliminary analysis from the
update process indicates that the largest portion of community
emissions is derived from transportation, followed by buildings,
which is consistent with the 2000