From this report

I’ll note that California is a bit unusual, having imposed energy efficiency standards on buildings decades ago (much of the US didn’t) and having actively taken steps to substitute solar, wind, and storage for fossil-fuel based electric generation

  • Herding Llamas@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Super interesting, I would assume California has a good amount of electric cars? But where are emissions from cattle / other farm animals / agriculture?

    • anticonnor@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, this report is designed with a transportation agenda in mind, so the graph only shows a select set of emission sources to make the tailpipe emissions look as bad as possible. Add in all other sources of emissions and the graph doesn’t look quite as impressive for the point they’re trying to make.

      Figure 1: In the 2019 statewide greenhouse gas emissions inventory, car tailpipes accounted for 119 MMTCO2e — roughly 28% of California’s overall emissions, and more than the emissions from the entire buildings sector and electricity sector combined.