Climate and Energy Action Plan (CEAP)

City of Ashland – Greenhouse Gas Inventory (2011 – 2015) 12 and reporting efforts, including prioritization of additional data gathering. The relative scale of uncertainty may also be useful for goal setting and prioritization of climate actions. Figure 8 provides a subjective assessment of this uncertainty by emissions source for sector-based (red) and consumption-based (blue) emissions. Sector-based emissions trend towards lower uncertainty and have mid-to-low scale while consumption-based emissions trend toward higher uncertainty and are larger scale. The emissions sources that have mid-to-high levels of uncertainty are rounded in the presentation of results to convey a higher degree of uncertainty. For example, note the rounded values in Figure 8. Figure 8: Assessment of emissions calculation uncertainty for the Community Inventory. SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE INVENTORIES • Household Consumption Data and Methodology: Consumption in this inventory was calculated using the Oregon Carbon Calculator, but in the near future ODEQ will be able to support communities in completing community household consumption inventories, as they did for Eugene, by scaling down Oregon’s State-Level Consumption Based Model. That approach was explored for this inventory, but ultimately not used due to project timing and resource limits. We recommend contacting David Allaway at Oregon Department of Environmental Quality about a potential collaboration for future updates to the community inventory. • Refrigerant Data: Establish process to collect more accurate, local refrigerant data. Invite cooling equipment vendors and services to join the Climate Action Planning process with a primary goal of establishing voluntary, anonymous data collection methods.