GPC Sectors and Subsectors
From Open Risk Manual
Definition
GPC Sectors and Subsectors are the taxonomy sectors and sub-sectors of city GHG Emissions under the GPC protocol[1]
GPC Emissions Taxonomy
Under the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Inventories, the six general GHG source sectors are further classified as follows:
- Stationary Energy
- Residential buildings
- Commercial and institutional buildings and facilities
- Manufacturing industries and construction
- Energy industries
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing activities
- Non-specified sources
- Fugitive emissions from mining, processing, storage, and transportation of coal
- Fugitive emissions from oil and natural gas systems
- Transportation
- On-road
- Railways
- Waterborne navigation
- Aviation
- Off-road
- Industrial Process Emissions (IPPU)
- Industrial processes
- Product use
- Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)
- Livestock
- Land
- Aggregate sources and non-CO2 emission sources on land
- Waste Emissions
- Solid waste disposal
- Biological treatment of waste
- Incineration and open burning
- Wastewater treatment and discharge
- Other Scope 3. Any other emissions occurring outside the Geographic GHG Boundary as a result of city activities (Scope 3 GHG Emissions)
References
- ↑ Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Inventories, An Accounting and Reporting Standard for Cities, Version 1.1, 2021. WRI, C40, IOCLEI
