Weekly greenhouse gas emissions of municipalities: Methods and comparisons

S. Monni and S. Syri

Energy Policy, 2011, vol. 39, issue 9, 4755-4765

Abstract: Local authorities need timely information on their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and their causes, comparison with other municipalities and tools for dissemination of information to the citizens. This paper presents a weekly GHG emission calculation system, CO2-report, which provides such data for citizens and local decision-makers in a timely manner, in contrast to the official emissions statistics, which are available on an annual basis 1-2 years afterwards. In this paper, we present the methodology and three main outputs of CO2-report: (1) weekly GHG emissions; (2) advance annual emissions; and (3) final annual emissions for 2009 with comparison of 64 municipalities in Finland. We explain the reasons for the large variability of annual emissions, from 5 to 13Â t CO2-eq/capita, discuss the accuracy of advance and final emission estimates at local level, and show the weekly variability of emissions for three example municipalities with different emission profiles.

Keywords: Greenhouse; gas; emissions; Local; emissions; Weekly; emissions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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