Covenant of Mayors
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The Covenant of Mayors (CoM) collection, maintained by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), provides datasets, methodological guidance, and technical resources to support local and regional climate action under the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy initiative. The collection includes greenhouse gas emission factors for electricity and local energy use, alongside supporting methodologies for greenhouse gas accounting and climate planning.
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GHG Emission Factors for Electricity Consumption
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| Description | The Covenant of Mayors (CoM) collection, maintained by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), provides datasets, methodological guidance, and technical resources to support local and regional climate action under the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy initiative. The collection includes greenhouse gas emission factors for electricity and local energy use, alongside supporting methodologies for greenhouse gas accounting and climate planning. |
| 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 Emission factors for Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan had the same value in both lifecyle and activity-based approach resulting in zero upstream emissions, which is incorrect. |
Methodology
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| Methodology description | The Covenant of Mayors (CoM) electricity emission factors dataset, published by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, provides country-specific greenhouse gas emission factors for national electricity consumption (grid mix). Emission factors are calculated annually by country using electricity generation, imports, and exports data from Eurostat Energy Balances (for EU Member States, Iceland, and Norway) and IEA World Energy Balances (for additional countries), representing in-region electricity generation plus imports minus exports (sheets: Table2_EU_IPCC_GHG and Table5_Other_IPCC_GHG). The dataset also includes a life-cycle (LC) approach, which accounts for both electricity generation emissions and upstream fuel supply chain emissions using ecoinvent market processes representative of European consumption mixes (sheets: Table3_EU_LC and Table6_Other_LC_GHG). Upstream emissions are additionally derived by subtracting the electricity generation emission factor from the life-cycle emission factor for each country-year combination using the corresponding activity-based and LC sheets. |
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