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Community Emissions Residential Commercial/Industrial Transportation Waste Local Government Operations Emissions Facilities Vehicle Fleet Public Lighting Water/Irrigation Solid Waste Under the Community Emissions category, the inventory identifies transportation as the greatest emitter (regional and local). For the Local Government Operations Emissions category, City facilities are the greatest source of emissions (44%) and the City fleet is the second largest emitter (24.9%). The Community Emissions results provided by ICLEI were compared to the GHG emissions calculations prepared by LSA Associates for the Draft EIR on the General Plan (August 2008). The table below compares Community Emissions by sector in percentage terms of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) as reported by ICLEI's 2005 baseline and LSA's 2008 report. 2005 Commercial/ Community Residential Industrial Transportation Waste Total Emissions b Sector ___ LSA 21 % 21 % 58% n/a 100% ICLEI 14% 16% _ 65% 5% 100% Difference 7% 5% 7% 5% -- The factors accounting for these differences include: • The LSA analysis was based on energy usage factors for residential and commercial/industrial development, whereas the ICLEI analysis used actual energy-use data. • The LSA analysis for transportation was based on vehicle miles traveled from the City's traffic model, whereas the ICLEI analysis was based on vehicle miles traveled from a Caltrans traffic model. The LSA analysis did not break out GHG production from waste as a separate component. Small percentage differences exist between the two analyses and transportation generally continues to be the greatest GHG emitter under Community Emissions. The commercial and residential categories, while tied in the LSA analysis, have minor differences in the ICLEI analysis. Both studies support the general trend that transportation is the greatest GHG emitter, with minor percentage differences between the other categories. LSA did not conduct an analysis on government operations. Page 3 of 5