Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory

Diagram depicting how greenhouse gases are created within a city.

Cuyahoga County periodically conducts a county-wide greenhouse gas inventory. The latest full-year data available at the time of publication is 2022. Cuyahoga County's greenhouse gas emissions are primarily generated by the residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation sectors. Solid waste, water and wastewater utilities, and fugitive emissions comprise a smaller portion of emissions as well. The sources of emissions are generated by electricity consumption, natural gas combustion, fuel from transport emissions, and industrial process emissions.

Cuyahoga County's science-based GHG reduction target is a 63% reduction in absolute emissions from our 2018 baseline by the year 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050.

View the Interactive GHG Emissions Data

GHG Emissions Change 2018-2022

Graph showing GHG Emissions Change between 2018-2022.

Cuyahoga County 2030 Reduction target

Graph showing GHG reduction target by 2030.

Key terms:

Greenhouse Gas (GHG): 
Any gas that absorbs infrared radiation (heat) in the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

Carbon Dioxide Equivalents (CO2e): 
A standard unit for measuring carbon footprints that expresses the impact of all gases in the amount of CO2 it would take to create the same warming effect.

Metric Tons CO2e (MT CO2e): 
Standard units for reporting GHG emissions under international protocol.


  
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