Global Climate Change
Services Include:
- Climate change analyses for planning documents and development projects
- Plan and project effects on the environment
- Adaptation of projects and communities to the effects of climate change
- Identification and calculation of project-specific greenhouse gas emissions reduction measures, including energy efficiency improvement measures, and trip reduction features
- Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions using the latest methods, models, and data including the following:
- California Climate Action Registry Protocol
- California Air Resources Board and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency emission factors
- Community, metropolitan planning organization, and air district inventories of greenhouse gas emissions
- U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, energy consumption data
- The latest emissions modeling programs
LSA Associates, Inc. has developed the breadth and depth of expertise to help our clients anticipate and meet the challenges created by this relatively new issue. While strategies utilized by local, regional, state, and federal governments to assess and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the carbon footprint of development continue to evolve, as does the understanding of global climate change itself, LSA works with clients to develop a customized approach to climate change impact analysis that reflects client and community needs within current regulatory expectations.
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