Abstract

Spatially Enabling the British Columbia Community Energy and Emissions Inventory.
Track: Climate Change
Authors: Per Wallenius, Ben Clark

The Community Energy and Emissions Inventory (CEEI) represents over 200 individual reports of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The data is split into on-road transportation, buildings, solid waste, deforestation and agriculture.
A first of its kind inventory in North America, it enables local governments to meet the BC Climate Action Charter commitment to measure and report on their green house gas (GHG) emissions profiles. Making the data available in a GIS map-based format at large scales assists local governments in making effective policies and actions towards reducing GHGs and creating compact, complete energy efficient communities. Outputs of the inventory and contributing spatial analysis allow more easy integration with GHG modeling and local planning processes that are spatially driven. This presentation will overview and describe the challenges and success of how GIS is supporting this critical program for climate action in British Columbia.