Climate Strategy Tool for Local Governments

On behalf of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), Synapse Energy Economics developed three climate strategy tools that local government officials can use to develop their climate strategy targets and estimate the associated energy and emissions reductions. Each climate strategy tool is summarized as follows:

Building Decarbonization Tool: this tool allows users to estimate changes to CO2 emissions associated with residential weatherization and space and water heating electrification for each municipality in Massachusetts.

Electric Vehicle Decarbonization Tool: this tool allows users to estimate changes to CO2 emissions associated with light-duty vehicles for each municipality in a target year based on a user-specified deployment scenario for electric vehicles and several other key assumptions.

Natural Asset Accounting Tool: this tool allows users to forecast the annual change in tree cover and resulting carbon emissions in each municipality within Massachusetts.