TO: Napa County Climate Action Committee
FROM: Brian D. Bordona, Director of Napa County Planning, Building & Environmental Services
REPORT BY: Jesse Guti?rrez, Principal Planner, Sustainability
SUBJECT: Presentation: Introduction to Napa Recycling Municipal Diversion Facility Global Heat Reduction Study
RECOMMENDATION
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PRESENTATION: Introduction to Napa Recycling Municipal Diversion Facility Global Heat Reduction Study
STAFF REQUEST: Receive a presentation from Tim Dewey-Mattia from Napa Recycling & Waste Services and Linda Brown from SCS Global Services on the Napa Recycling Municipal Diversion Facility Global Heat Reduction Study.
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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The proposed action is not a project as defined by 14 California
Code of Regulations 15378 (State CEQA Guidelines) and therefore CEQA is not applicable.
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
Title: Taking a Fresh Look at the Carbon Footprint of the Napa Recycling Municipal Diversion Facility from a Global Heat Reduction Perspective
Committee members will hear a report about a pilot study conducted by SCS Consulting and the SCS Global Heat Reduction Initiative (GHR) on behalf of Napa Recycling and Waste Services (NRWS), which will showcase the use of an advanced Total Climate Accounting approach developed to help users achieve the greatest climate return on investment (ROI). Under Phase 1 of the study, SCS calculated the 2024 carbon footprint of operations at the Napa Recycling Municipal Diversion Facility (MDF) and quantified the climate benefit of its composting efforts. Under Phase 2, SCS determined how implementation of a new Anaerobic Digester project would alter the carbon footprint. In addition to conventional carbon footprint analysis and reporting metrics, the study expanded the analysis in two important ways by: 1) including a wider range of climate pollutants, and 2) evaluating the corresponding global heat impact reduction associated with these operations over near-...
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