Grand Canyon Trust Colorado Plateau | GHG Inventory
Lotus helped develop the first GHG emissions inventory and BAU projection for the Colorado Plateau. We developed a bottom-up approach to estimate overall emissions based on 64 unique municipalities, including sources such as oil and gas drilling and processing, coal mine emissions, and carbon sequestration from farming practices. The Colorado Plateau covers an area of roughly 130,000 square miles and includes portions of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. Read a summary of our findings.
“Working with Lotus has been an extremely positive experience. We came to Lotus in the research phase of a large project, and they were able to take our idea and run with it. From project design, to becoming experts in the subject area, Lotus created a defensible, scientifically sound greenhouse gas emissions inventory and forecast to 2050 for the entire Colorado Plateau. They were always available to answer questions, and even conducted an in-person training to teach our team how to replicate the inventory in the future. We can’t recommend Lotus highly enough, and hope to work with them again in the future.”