CoM Default Emission Factors for the Member States of the European Union - Version 2017

The Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy brings together thousands of local and regional authorities voluntarily committed to implementing EU climate and energy objectives on their territory. New signatories now pledge to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 40% by 2030 and to adopt an integrated approach to tackling mitigation and adaptation to climate change. This JRC dataset provides an update to the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) default emission factors initially published in Bertoldi et al. (2010) and subsequently updated in CoM reporting guidelines. It can be used by local authorities to estimate CO2 or Greenhouse Gas (GHG) local emissions due to: - Table 1: the local consumption of fossil fuels and non-renewable wastes - Table 2: the local consumption of biofuels, biomass, solar thermal and geothermal Renewable energy sources (RES) - Table 3: the local electricity production from other RES (wind, hydroelectric, photovoltaics) - Tables 4 to 6: the local electricity consumption Detailed information on the methodologies, assumptions and data sources, as well as recommendations when using 'CoM default emission factors-Version 2017' dataset are found in the PDF file below (JRC report).