Covenant of Mayors collection - 2024 datasets
The Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM) for Climate and Energy initiative brings together more than 13 000 local and regional administrative authorities fostering the design and implementation of effective climate change policies and strategies at the urban level. In the GCoM, signatories voluntarily commit to developing and implementing a Climate Action Plan (CAP), with measures to reduce energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides scientific, methodological and technical support to the GCoM, in particular in assisting signatories with the preparation and implementation of their action plans through the development of methodological guidebooks and in supporting their scientific soundness. For signatories in EU Member States, it also ensures their alignment and coherence with EU climate and energy policies.
In this context, the JRC provides GHG emission factors (EFs) for local authorities to estimate emissions associated with their (i) local use of energy from a range of renewable and non-renewable energy sources and (ii) use of national grid electricity. These EFs are regularly published in two datasets available in the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) collection within the JRC Data Catalogue: the ‘GHG emission factors for local energy use’ dataset and the ‘GHG emission factors for electricity consumption’ dataset. This report updates these EFs and summarises the data and methodology used to calculate them. GHG EFs for electricity are updated to 2020/2021 for the EU Member States and 28 other countries in Europe, the eastern neighbourhood, the southern neighbourhood and central Asia.
BASTOS Joana;
MONFORTI-FERRARIO Fabio;
MELICA Giulia;
2024-02-09
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC136272
978-92-68-11783-5 (online),
978-92-68-11784-2 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
1018-5593 (print),
EUR 31825 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31-825-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-NA-31-825-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC136272,
10.2760/014585 (online),
10.2760/521074 (print),
