Greenhouse gases emission factors for local emission inventories
Covenant of Mayors databases - Version 2022
The EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy initiative (CoM) brings together local and regional
authorities voluntarily committing to develop and implement a Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan
(SECAP), containing measures to reduce their energy related Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. The Joint
Research Centre (JRC) provides scientific, methodological and technical support to the EU CoM initiative; the
JRC assists signatories with the preparation and implementation of their action plans through the
development of methodological guidebooks. In this context the JRC is responsible for regularly publishing GHG default emission factors used by local authorities to estimate GHG emissions due to: (1) consumption of fossil fuels and wastes (non-renewable); (2)
consumption of biofuels, biomass, solar thermal and geothermal; (3) electricity consumption.
The dataset named “CoM Default Emission Factors” reports the default emission factors for the use of fuels
and RES (Renewable Energy Sources), meanwhile the dataset named “GHG Emission Factors for Electricity
Consumption” presents the default emission factors for indirect emissions from electricity consumption. The
datasets are available on the Joint Research Centre Data Catalogue, under the Covenant of Mayors collection.
The main scope of this report it is to provide insights on the input data and methodologies used to build up
the GHG emission factors datasets, highlighting the specific characteristics within the CoM context.
LO VULLO Eleonora;
MONFORTI-FERRARIO Fabio;
PALERMO Valentina;
BERTOLDI Paolo;
2022-07-29
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC129433
978-92-76-55246-8 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 31168 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31168-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC129433,
10.2760/776442 (online),
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