Covenant of Mayors
About Covenant of Mayors
The Covenant of Mayors collection provides supporting data for the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (CoM) initiative. This dataset provides updated emission factors for national electricity consumption (also referred to as National and European Emission Factors for Electricity - NEEFE).
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| Description | The Covenant of Mayors collection provides supporting data for the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (CoM) initiative. This dataset provides updated emission factors for national electricity consumption (also referred to as National and European Emission Factors for Electricity - NEEFE). |
| Source type | Intergovernmental |
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| Year released | 2024 |
| Geography | Multiple regions |
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| Type of data | Activity-based |
| Emission results | CO2e |
| Data Transformation | The source reports emissions in tCO2/MWh, which have been converted to kgCO2/kWh to ensure consistency. |
License
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| Type of license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
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Data quality
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| Data quality assurance | Vetted by Climatiq. For further information on data quality assurance, see: https://www.climatiq.io/methodology#Data-Quality |
| Quality flag(s) | Outlier Several emission factors differ substantially from similar data points and could be erroneous. They are included to retain consistency with the source. |
Methodology
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| Methodology description | This dataset provides country-specific GHG emission factors for national electricity consumption, published by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in the context of the EU and Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy initiative. Three types of emission factors are provided, following two approaches. Under the activity-based (IPCC) approach: (i) a CO₂-only emission factor (t CO₂/MWh), and (ii) a GHG emission factor covering CO₂, CH₄, and N₂O (t CO₂-eq/MWh). Under the life-cycle (LC) approach: (iii) a GHG emission factor covering CO₂, CH₄, and N₂O (t CO₂-eq/MWh) that additionally includes upstream supply chain emissions. For full details, see Bastos, Monforti-Ferrario and Melica (2024), GHG Emission Factors for Electricity Consumption (JRC136340). |
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