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... 29   Setting Emissions Goals, Baselines, and Targets This chapter describes a 5-step process for setting an emissions goal, based on guidance from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol on emissions mitigation goal setting (WRI 2014)
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... 30 Guidebook for Developing a Zero- or Low-Emissions Roadmap at Airports Using ACERT ACI developed the Airport Carbon and Emissions Reporting Tool (ACERT) , a free, Excelbased tool for airports to develop carbon emissions inventories.
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... Setting Emissions Goals, Baselines, and Targets 31   3.3 Choose Goal Type All emissions goals share the same underlying objective -- to reduce emissions -- yet they can differ materially in how they are worded. An airport should seek to answer the four questions shown in Table 9 along with possible answers and examples.
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... 32 Guidebook for Developing a Zero- or Low-Emissions Roadmap at Airports which an airport reduces emissions shortly before a target year. An example of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport's multiyear targets, broken down by emission scope, is shown in the box.
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... Setting Emissions Goals, Baselines, and Targets 33   3.5 Define Allowable Emissions in Target Years A final step is to determine the maximum quantity of emissions in the target year. Best practices for developing goals include being organized, ambitious yet reasonable, and concrete (EPA 2019)

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