CO2 Assessment Tool for Communities

Abstract

The “CO2 Grobbilanz” (communal registers of CO2 emissions) described by this paper is an assessment tool for environmental policy and decision makers in municipalities. The development of the tool was initiated by Klimabündnis Österreich (climate alliance Austria)3 to support member communities in their activities for climate protection. As a first step the tool offers easy CO2 assessment by a large number of integrated statistical data in combination with only few input of the municipality user. Possibilities to adapt the statistical data to the local settings (if known) allow for more precise calculation. Display of all the data shows the influencing factors of a community’s CO2 emissions and thereby fulfils educational purposes. In the future the tool is meant to function as a monitoring and steering tool for CO2 reduction policies.