{"id":18996,"date":"2021-08-31T20:03:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T01:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/?page_id=18996"},"modified":"2023-03-22T17:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T17:07:29","slug":"mitigation-measures","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/project\/central-iowa-climate-toolbox\/mitigation-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitigation Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Efforts to reduce or prevent emission of greenhouse gases are underway across the United States.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n What a community or organization may choose to do to reduce their emissions is based on their varying capacity. MPO staff is available to help work through custom mitigation measures.<\/a> Americans drive on average 13,500 miles per year and produce 58% of transportation GHG emissions nationally. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Across the US and in Iowa, transportation is a leading GHG emitter; the vast majority of which is carbon dioxide (CO2<\/sup>)<\/a> from light-duty vehicles (passenger vehicles). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Central Iowa does not have the smog other cities face due to topography and geography. However Des Moines’s 2017 GHG inventory<\/a> showed transportation emits 26% of the community-wide emissions, making it the third largest contributor. Like all other sectors, there are a number of pathways a community or organization can take to reduce emissions from transportation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Americans spend roughly 90% of their time indoors<\/em>. <\/a> If you’ll recall, the Des Moines 2017 Inventory of Community Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report<\/a> showed the cities residential and commercial buildings consume 62% of all emissions. Again, as more communities around Central Iowa conduct GHG inventories, this could shift, however buildings will still be a large proportion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Below are a few measures communities or organizations could choose to add to their climate action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 88% of GHG emissions in Des Moines come from the above three sources. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Depending on your location in Central Iowa, your electricity comes from either Alliant Energy<\/a> or MidAmerican Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both providers have and continue to make large investments in renewable energy. In fact, in 2020 wind turbines generated 57% of Iowa’s electricity, the highest wind power share for any state.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Beyond these large-scale providers, renewable energy production is feasible across Central Iowa<\/a>. And, there are opportunities at every scale for communities and jurisdictions to positively contribute to energy production:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a community or organization may choose to do to reduce their emissions is based on their varying capacity. MPO staff is available to help work through custom mitigation measures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21595,"parent":23682,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"display_status":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/18996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/18996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23740,"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/18996\/revisions\/23740"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/23682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"display_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/display_status?post=18996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Additionally, the below are selected examples to reference when starting to set reduction goals. The subjects are based on standard GHG inventory sectors:
Transportation, Commercial, Residential, Electricity, Industry, and Agriculture<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Regionally speaking, Des Moines is the urban core of the metropolitan area and has higher population and development densities. As more community GHG inventories are drafted and released, it would be expected for this proportion to trend upwards in many suburban communities. Making mitigation strategies in this sector a higher priority when reducing emissions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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As such, buildings are vital to society, and have a large part to play in reducing emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Industry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Agriculture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n