In 2011, Nantucket developed a climate action plan, yet it was never adopted. Now the town seeks to create a more robust plan. Our project was to establish a baseline greenhouse gas inventory to set climate action goals and measure progress. We used the Metropolitan Area Planning Council inventory tool to estimate the island’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions, and found residential buildings and gasoline cars were the largest sources of emissions. Our survey revealed that the public favors electric vehicles and solar panels to reduce emissions from those sources. Based on our findings, we recommend climate action strategies the Nantucket Energy Office can pursue in the future and how the MAPC can improve the inventory tool.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Moriarty, Callan J.
• Aubuchon, Brennan J.
• Poulos, Jared
• Melo, Tyler A.

Subject

• Environment
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121020-124113
• 4816

Palavra-chave

• Inventory
• Nantucket Energy Office
• Climate Change
• Nantucket
• Greenhouse Gas
• Climate Action

Advisor

• Golding, Dominic

Year

• 2020

Center

• Nantucket, Massachusetts Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Nantucket Energy Office
• Sponsor Liaison: Lauren Sinatra

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 13 - Climate Action

Date created

• 2020-12-10

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright