Sacramento County has released its 2021 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory for public review and is proud to show reduced GHG emissions in government operations and throughout the unincorporated community as a whole.
The GHG Inventory presents both a Sacramento County government operations inventory and an unincorporated community-wide inventory. The Inventory shows that Sacramento County has reduced GHG emissions in its government operations by 32.5 percent compared to 2015 levels, the year of our last inventory. The Inventory also shows that the unincorporated community of Sacramento County has reduced GHG emissions by 3.2 percent since 2015.
“Our 2021 government operations inventory shows a reduction of 39,979 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents from 2015 levels, which equates to 8,897 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year or planting 661,056 tree seedlings grown for 10 years," said John Lundgren, Sacramento County Sustainability Manager. “While we still have a tremendous amount of work to do to reach carbon neutrality, we can celebrate a victory in seeing our internal government operations efforts pay off in documented GHG reductions."
The Inventory will be presented to the Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force as an informational item on June 15. The public may submit comments on the GHG Inventory until July 31 by emailing John Lundgren at
Lundgrenj@Saccounty.gov.
To learn more,
visit the Green Sacramento County website.
