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Nevada Statewide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Projections, 1990 to 2030
Figure 2-4: Nevada Historical and Projected Gross Sector Emissions, 1990 - 2030
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Waste Management
Agriculture
Fossil Fuel Industry
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Nevada and the United States
In comparing Nevada's GHG emissions to total US GHG emissions, there are multiple differences. First,
total US GHG gross emissions were 6,800 MMTCO2eq for 2013.10 Net US emissions, after accounting for
land use, land use change, and forestry sinks, were estimated to be 6,040.4 MMTCO2eq. Nevada
accounted for 0.65 percent of both gross and net US GHG emissions; Nevada accounted for 0.88 percent
of the US population in 2013. 2013 US GHG emissions were estimated to be 21.5 MTCO₂eq per person,
whereas Nevadans are estimated to emit 15.7 MTCO2eq per person. The relative contributions of GHGs
from each sector in this report when comparing the US and Nevada also differ. Figure 2-5 illustrates the
relative contributions of both Nevada and US 2013 GHG emissions broken up by sector for comparison.
Nationally, the US creates, on average, far more GHGs from the residential, commercial, and industrial
combustion of fossil fuels (21 percent) than Nevada (16 percent). Agriculture emissions are also
appreciably higher nationally (9 percent versus Nevada's 3 percent). Nevadans generate far more GHGs
from the transportation sector than are generated nationally; 33 percent of Nevada's emissions are
transportation based as compared to 26 percent nationally in 2013. Much of this likely has to do with
Nevada's geography and comparatively small population per square mile of land.
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EPA (2016) Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 - 2014, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. Washington, D.C. EPA/430-R-16-002. April 15, 2016, p ES-4.
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