This subsection focuses on what a municipality can do to reduce energy consumption and carbon polution from their own operations. In this section you learn about professional energy audits, creating and implementing an energy reduction plan, and analysing and reporting results.

Inventorying greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy implementation , and energy conservation are some of the ways that a community can begin to address greenhouse gas mitigation. This section defines these topics and provides strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas in communities.