Have you ever read a greenhouse gas inventory?

[beandev@social.tchncs.de]

@evan
Yes, because in Germany we’re constantly having debates about various sectors. The transportation sector, in particular, is getting special treatment from our gas-guzzling government, and this means we won’t meet our climate goals.

[grob@mstdn.social]

@evan is that the greenhouse gas part of a lifecycle analysis?

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@beandev That's awesome to hear!

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@grob https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_inventory

[david@setouchi.social]

@evan The number of "no" is disheartening.

[tarix29@tech.lgbt]

@evan only because my brother works on models for agricultural emissions, and I've looked at some of his work

[themediumkahuna@tech.lgbt]

@evan yes, I’m the one who does our GHG inventory at my work (a regional public university)

[grob@mstdn.social]

@evan ah, so it's not

accounting of all GHG per product/service/… emitted in the lifecycle together with other, ideally exhaustive, environmental indicators,

but

accounting of only GHG emitted by a country/city/… (ignoring other indicators) and includes natural sources/sinks and measured over e.g. a year and can be based on production (what a country makes) or consumption (what a country uses, possibly made in other countries, relevant for many rich countries importing a lot)

[grob@mstdn.social]

@evan then my answer is no, but I skimmed over some and read only the results.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@tarix29 that's awesome! Thanks for doing it.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@themediumkahuna thank you for that!

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@grob that seems pretty legit! You can get a lot of information from a top-line scan or an executive summary.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@tarix29 agricultural emissions are tricky, too!