Regional Greenhouse Gas Inventory (2005-2015)
Through the establishment of the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact, Broward, Miami Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach counties committed to collaborate on strategies to reduce the region’s emissions, including the development of an emissions baseline for Southeast Florida. A regional greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) inventory is integral to developing informed climate change mitigation strategies and monitoring the region’s progress over time.
The Compact’s regional greenhouse gas inventory provides a summary of overall emissions trends from across the four counties. The inventory was conducted as a retrospective of 10 years of community-wide emissions, from 2005 to 2015. The inventory scope was limited to systems at the regional scale, including transportation (on-road transportation, passenger rail, freight rail) and stationary energy from residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. The inventory does not include emissions from wastewater or solid waste. All emissions are either produced from sources located within the regional boundary (Scope 1) or as a result of grid-supplied electricity, heat, or steam consumed within the region (Scope 2).
GHG EMISSIONS BY SECTOR
Within this scope, the regional inventory shows that, on average, transportation accounts for 48% of emissions. The built environment accounts for over half of regional emissions (52%), with 26% of emissions resulting from residential energy consumption and 24% from commercial energy consumption. Industrial energy accounts for a small proportion of regional emissions (1%). Within the transportation sector, on-road transportation (vehicle miles traveled) accounts for the vast majority of emissions.
