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West Coast Forum on Climate Change, Materials and Waste: Research and Inventory Workgroups

West Coast Forum on Climate Change, Materials and Waste: Research and Inventory Workgroups. David Allaway Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (503) 229-5479 allaway.david@deq.state.or.us. Research Workgroup.

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West Coast Forum on Climate Change, Materials and Waste: Research and Inventory Workgroups

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  1. West Coast Forum on Climate Change, Materials and Waste: Research and Inventory Workgroups David Allaway Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (503) 229-5479 allaway.david@deq.state.or.us

  2. Research Workgroup • Goal: Establish a shared research agenda and develop a strategy to communicate research. • Expected Outputs: • Develop agenda of prioritized materials/climate research questions • Identify, annotate and share key research • WARM (Waste Reduction Model): Incorporate research needs to support improvements

  3. Prioritization • Survey of interested parties • Conducted July 2 – July 24 • 142 starts; 121 completions • 54%+ of respondents were state/local governments • Rate the importance of topics in reducing GHG emissions (not information gaps) • Technical Advisory Committee • Sara Hartwell, US EPA • Josh Stolaroff, US EPA • Pat Sullivan, SCS Engineers • Dr. Jeffrey Morris, Sound Resource Mgmt. • Dr. Lisa Skumatz, Skumatz Economic Research Associates • Mark Fuchs, Washington Dept. of Ecology • Dr. Sally Brown, University of Washington

  4. Survey – Key Observations (Preliminary) • Waste prevention and consumer behavior topics generally ranked higher (more important) than recovery, disposal • Local/state government focus is generally on actions – what can we do • All 36 topics ranked at 2.5 or higher (on a scale of 1 – 4) • A lot of thoughtful comments • Fairly good concordance between state/local governments and others. • Top 12 (of 36) for state and local governments include 8 of the top 12 for others.

  5. Top-Ranked (Most Important) Information Needs

  6. Top-Ranked (Most Important) Information Needs (continued)

  7. Top-Ranked (Most Important) Information Needs (continued)

  8. Research Workgroup: Next Steps • TAC input on research priorities (August) • Establish priorities (August) • Based on survey results, TAC input, and opinions of workgroup members • Conduct secondary research on priority topics? • Develop research agenda • Prioritized • Summary of existing research • Gap analysis; information needs • Strategy for ongoing communication/sharing of information

  9. Questions?

  10. Inventory Workgroup • Goal: Integrate materials-related emissions (both upstream and downstream) into state and local GHG inventories. • Expected Outputs: • Incorporate emissions associated with materials consumption and recovery related emissions reductions into the CARB/CCAR Community Inventory Protocol • Work with ICLEI and the GHG inventory consulting community to integrate materials-related considerations into state/local government inventory software and inventories • WARM (Waste Reduction Model): Evaluate applicability for inventories and support improvements.

  11. “Scopes” in GHG Inventories Source: World Resources Institute

  12. Example of Emissions in Materials:UC Berkeley (2006) Electricity (pre-combustion) 10% Others 5% Natural Gas 6% Construction 19% Staff/faculty commute 9% Steam 38% Air travel 11% Traditional Inventory 43% Electricity (fuels) 31% Goods & Services 28% Traditional Inventory 209,000 MTCO2e “Footprint” 482,000 MTCO2e

  13. Example of Emissions in Materials:Stonyfield Farms

  14. United Kingdom: Traditional vs. Consumption-Based Accounting Source: DEFRA, 2008

  15. Progress to Date • Decided to focus on CARB Community Inventory Protocol • Drafted letter to CARB • Assign disposal emissions to generating community, not host community • Count benefits of waste reduction • Include consumption-based emissions • Holding pattern since January . . .

  16. Other Activities • Learned more about inventory protocols, issues • Commented on CAPPA (Climate and Air Pollution Planning Assistant) • Individual member projects • Oregon’s consumption-based GHG inventory • Portland’s Climate Action Plan • Metro (Portland) local government inventories • Others

  17. Possible Next Steps • Continue to wait on CARB • Create our own protocol (with ICLEI, others) or contribute to some other protocol • Build tools, capacity • Communities that already have recycling in their climate action plans: develop best practices and examples for quantifying the benefits, reporting these benefits in their inventories • Communities that are developing inventories: help them address consumption, explore how it might be portrayed, what they might do to reduce emissions • Others?

  18. Questions?

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