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The official CCA (Climate Commitment Act) dashboard is difficult to use and doesn’t allow the data to be sorted or otherwise easily accessed, so I managed to locate some source files and organized it in the linked spreadsheet. This data seems to be from before the WA Dept. of Ecology updated numbers for the 8 projects flagged for issues by the Washington Policy Center. Note that the KING 5 subheadline is misleading (this article): The revision from 7.5 million MTCO2e reduction to 78,000 MTCO2e represents the revision for those 8 projects, NOT the total amount of MTCO2e reduction from the CCA, which was originally stated to be about 8.6 million MTCO2e. The real total revision is from 8.6 million to about 1.2 million, which is still very substantial. You can also see clearly from the spreadsheet that the vast majority of projects did not have emissions reductions calculated for them! Scrolling through the list and you will see that while some really did not have an effect on emissions (e.g. admin costs, clean energy credits, etc.), a huge number of them are really projects that certainly reduce emissions, and it was just that people were too lazy to calculate the number. Thus, the real amount of CO2e reduction is likely greater than 1.2 million MT. Additionally, the CO2e reduction from disincentivizing corporations from emitting carbon in the first place has not been estimated as part of this report. Please keep these facts in mind when reading articles about this story. submitted by /u/yadec |
