City of Boulder | City of Boulder Annual GHG Emissions Inventories (Community and Municipal)
City of Boulder Annual GHG Emissions Inventories (Community and Municipal)
Lotus completed the City of Boulder’s community and municipal GHG inventories in 2012, and from 2015 through 2022. Since 2016, Lotus has been preparing the city of Boulder’s community GPC-compliant greenhouse gas emissions inventories. Lotus develops community and municipal GHG inventories in separate Excel-based tools which include information regarding data sources, documentation of calculation methodology, and easy-to-digest data visualizations communicating inventory results. Lotus also writes final reports for the community and municipal inventories for Boulder. Lotus updates the inventories each year and in 2018, started updating the municipal GHG emission inventories. In 2018, Lotus also provided the city with an infographic describing the results of the city’s 2018 GHG emissions inventory for use by the city’s residents.
The 2023 inventory work is currently underway.
New 2023 GHG inventory results published in Winter 2024 report that Boulder achieved an impressive 24% reduction in GHG emissions since 2018. The community continues to see declining GHG emissions as they make progress towards a resilient and sustainable future. The City’s GHG emissions reduction work has been highlighted by the press:: City of Boulder News, CBS News, Daily Camera Press Release.
“The Lotus team are greenhouse gas accounting wizards! The City of Boulder has been working with Lotus on our community and municipal GHG inventories for multiple years now, and we are endlessly impressed by the engaging, knowledgeable, helpful, and reliable team that always delivers on quality, accuracy, and customer service. The Lotus team is such a pleasure to work with and their passion and commitment to the work is evident, always seeking to find solutions to meet unique needs or requests as they arise.”