{
  "id": "regional-ghg",
  "category": "Environment",
  "title": "Greenhouse gas emissions, Capital Region, compared with 2007",
  "geography": "Capital Regional District (community-wide inventory)",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "Regional (growth strategy)",
    "Provincial and federal climate policy",
    "Households and businesses"
  ],
  "plain_question": "How much greenhouse gas did the whole region emit in a year, compared with 2007?",
  "value": -10.7,
  "display_value": "−10.7%",
  "unit": "vs 2007 (1.79 million tonnes in 2024)",
  "period": "Inventory year 2024",
  "period_start": "2024-01-01",
  "period_end": "2024-12-31",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "Inventory year 2022",
    "previous_value": -7.0,
    "change_percent": -3.7,
    "change_unit": "percentage points"
  },
  "trend": "improving",
  "direction_good": "down",
  "right_direction": "A bigger cut from 2007 moves the region toward its target.",
  "trend_basis": "About 1.79 million tonnes in 2024, 10.7% below 2007 (2025 edition report), against about 1.86 million tonnes in 2022, 7% below 2007 (previous report). The CRD describes the change from 2022 as a 1% decrease. The Regional Growth Strategy target is 61% below 2007 by 2038.",
  "since_text": "1.79 million tonnes in 2024, 1.86 in 2022. Target: 61% below 2007 by 2038.",
  "baseline": {
    "period": "2007",
    "text": "the CRD’s 2007 base year"
  },
  "caveats": [
    "The CRD’s community-wide inventory (BASIC+ protocol): buildings, transportation, waste, industry, agriculture and land use, for the whole region. The City of Victoria’s own inventory is on its own page.",
    "The CRD describes the change from 2022 to 2024 as a 1% decrease, while the two printed totals (rounded to two decimals, 1.86 and 1.79 million tonnes) differ by -3.8%. The inventory may have been revised; both readings are shown.",
    "Inventories are prepared every two years and are revised as methods improve."
  ],
  "charts": [],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2022",
      "value": -7.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2024",
      "value": -10.7
    }
  ],
  "tonnes": {
    "2022": 1.86,
    "2024": 1.79
  },
  "refresh_frequency": "Every two years (CRD community greenhouse gas inventory)",
  "source": {
    "name": "Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition)",
    "url": "https://www.crd.ca/programs-services/regional-planning/regional-growth-strategy",
    "dataset_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-rgs-indicators-reportpdf",
    "download_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-rgs-indicators-reportpdf",
    "locator": "Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition), indicator 7.1a “Community greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions”, “How are we doing?” and “Target/Desired Trend”",
    "reads": "In 2024, the Capital Regional District's (CRD) annual GHG emissions totalled approximately 1.79 million tonnes, which represents 1% decrease from 2022 and a 10.7% decrease from the 2007 base year",
    "earlier": {
      "period": "2022",
      "display": "1.86",
      "name": "Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2024 edition)",
      "url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2024-rgs-indicators-reportpdf",
      "page_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2024-rgs-indicators-reportpdf#page=29",
      "page": 29,
      "reads": "In 2022, the Capital Regional District's (CRD) annual GHG emissions totalled approximately 1.86 million tonnes, which represents a 7% decline from the 2007 base year",
      "published": "2025-03-07",
      "note": null
    },
    "page_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-rgs-indicators-reportpdf#page=29",
    "page": 29
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.",
    "url": "https://www.crd.ca/disclaimer",
    "open": false
  },
  "verified_text": [
    "In 2024, the Capital Regional District's (CRD) annual GHG emissions totalled approximately 1.79 million tonnes, which represents 1% decrease from 2022 and a 10.7% decrease from the 2007 base year",
    "Decrease community GHG emissions by 33% from 2007 levels by 2020 and 61% by 2038.",
    "In 2022, the Capital Regional District's (CRD) annual GHG emissions totalled approximately 1.86 million tonnes, which represents a 7% decline from the 2007 base year"
  ],
  "data_published": "2026-02-18",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-13T05:30:10Z",
  "attribution": "Source: Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition). Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.",
  "targets_text": {
    "pct_below_2007": 61,
    "by": "2038"
  },
  "licence_type": "public",
  "source_tier": 1,
  "measure_kind": "outcome",
  "better_measure": null,
  "status_rule": {
    "rule": "One rule for every measure: a change smaller than 5% of the earlier value, or smaller than the agency's own margin of error, is “About the same”; no change is calculated across a marked break in a series; homelessness estimates, prices, staffing and comparison pages are shown for context without a label.",
    "reason": "The change is 52.9% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold.",
    "threshold_percent": 5.0
  },
  "changes": {
    "year": {
      "period": "Inventory year 2022",
      "value": -7.0,
      "text": "vs Inventory year 2022: -3.7 points"
    },
    "five_year": null
  },
  "direction": {
    "type": "target",
    "rule": "Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series.",
    "key": "behind",
    "label": "Behind target",
    "arrow": null,
    "rel": -52.85714285714285,
    "delta": -3.6999999999999993,
    "vs": "Inventory year 2022",
    "cur": "Inventory year 2024",
    "why": "Calculated here: a straight line from the 2007 level to a 61% cut in 2038 gives a cut of about 33.5% by 2024. The 2024 inventory shows a 11% cut, so emissions were 34.2% above that line. Within 5% of the line reads On target. The City does not publish a year-by-year path; this line is a reading of its target, not a target we set.",
    "change": "3.7 pt",
    "one_year": "−3.7 pt",
    "long_why": "The only earlier figure (2022) is the one already compared, so there is no longer reading yet.",
    "year_reading": {
      "label": "Better",
      "key": "better",
      "why": "The change is 52.9% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold."
    },
    "target_source": [
      "Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition, report for 2024)",
      "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-rgs-indicators-reportpdf"
    ]
  },
  "benchmark": {
    "rung": 1,
    "rung_name": "Adopted target",
    "as_of": "2026-11-12",
    "items": [
      {
        "kind": "target",
        "label": "Adopted target",
        "text": "Adopted target: the CRD’s Regional Growth Strategy aims to cut community greenhouse gas emissions by 33% from 2007 by 2020 and by 61% by 2038. The 2025 indicators report says the current trend suggests the region will not meet the 2038 target. No chart is drawn, because only two inventory years are read here.",
        "area": "Capital Region",
        "source": {
          "title": "Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition, report for 2024)",
          "publisher": "Capital Regional District",
          "date": "2025",
          "url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-rgs-indicators-reportpdf",
          "terms": "https://www.crd.ca/disclaimer",
          "refresh": "Yearly",
          "licence": "Public document, not under an open licence. Quoted with attribution.",
          "checked": "2026-11-12",
          "key": "crd_rgs25",
          "page": 29
        },
        "documents_checked": null
      }
    ],
    "drawn": [],
    "rule": "Highest rung found is shown; the site never sets a target. Methods, Targets."
  },
  "benchmarks": [
    {
      "rung": 1,
      "kind": "target",
      "label": "Cut community greenhouse gas emissions by 61% by 2038, compared with 2007 (CRD Regional Growth Strategy)",
      "short": "Target: 61% cut by 2038",
      "unit": "% change from 2007",
      "value": -61,
      "by_date": "2038",
      "baseline_value": 0,
      "baseline_date": "2007",
      "set_by": "CRD",
      "instrument": "plan",
      "document": "crd_rgs25",
      "page": null,
      "area": null,
      "fit": "full",
      "same_area": true,
      "polarity": "lower_is_better",
      "path": false,
      "standing": false,
      "drawn": false,
      "document_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-rgs-indicators-reportpdf",
      "applies_here": true,
      "same_measure": true
    }
  ],
  "highest_rung": 1,
  "target_status": {
    "method": "calculated_pace",
    "label": "Behind target",
    "key": "behind",
    "value": -10.7,
    "target": -61,
    "path_value": -33.5,
    "gap_percent": 34.2,
    "calculated_here": true,
    "baseline_date": "2007",
    "by_date": "2038",
    "text": "Calculated here: a straight line from the 2007 level to a 61% cut in 2038 gives a cut of about 33.5% by 2024. The 2024 inventory shows a 11% cut, so emissions were 34.2% above that line. Within 5% of the line reads On target. The City does not publish a year-by-year path; this line is a reading of its target, not a target we set."
  },
  "decided_by": [
    {
      "body": "CRD",
      "name": "Capital Regional District Board",
      "decides": "Must include targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions in its regional growth strategy.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "lga429d",
          "label": "Local Government Act, s. 429 (2) (d)",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/r15001_13#section429"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    },
    {
      "body": "BC",
      "name": "Province of B.C.",
      "decides": "Sets B.C.’s emission targets in law.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "ccaa2",
          "label": "Climate Change Accountability Act, s. 2",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/07042_01#section2"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    },
    {
      "body": "CAN",
      "name": "Government of Canada and Parliament",
      "decides": "Sets Canada’s national emission targets.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "cnz",
          "label": "Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, s. 6 and 7",
          "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-19.3/FullText.html"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    },
    {
      "body": "NONE",
      "name": "No government decides this directly",
      "note": "Households and businesses also decide how they heat buildings and travel."
    }
  ],
  "main_decision_maker": "Capital Regional District Board",
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    "key": "behind",
    "label": "Behind target"
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  "target_line": {
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    "text": "Target −61.0% by 2038 · behind",
    "target": -61.0,
    "gap": "behind",
    "comparison": null,
    "applies_here": true,
    "note": "Pace calculated here: 34.2% above a straight line to the target."
  }
}