Measuring Emissions While Managing For Impact In An Inherently Chaotic World Climate Hub Tent

With: Imogen Ainsworth, Lead Sustainability Analyst, Brendle Group; Dannah Leeman, Sustainability Coordinator, Town of Crested Butte; Alexi Lamm, Sustainability Director, City of Moab; Marty Pool, Sustainability Manager, City of Durango

How to Plan, Collaborate & Scale Solutions

What gets measured gets managed. And what gets managed must be measured. Except maybe for mountain towns attempting to find the balance between implementing climate action informed by a rigorous, protocol-compliant GHG inventory while creating meaningful impact both inside their jurisdictional boundary and outside of it. Comprehensive calculation of scopes one, two, and three emissions in mountain towns welcoming guests from all over the world is challenging at best, and rare. Our panel of mountain town sustainability leaders from Crested Butte and Durango, CO, and Moab, UT, will discuss how they determined the scope of their GHG emissions inventory and how they identify the levers that they can influence through community climate action. The challenges and opportunities they face reflect a reconciliation between bounded, data-driven rigor, and inherent interconnectedness that will be familiar to many mountain towns.