Andreea Iancu

The Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy brings together thousands of local and regional authorities voluntarily committed to implementing climate mitigation and energy objectives on their territory. This JRC dataset provides an update to the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) default emission factors and an extension of the Business-As-usual Scenario coefficients initially published in Janssens-Maenhout et al. (2012), Iancu et al. (2014), and Cerutti et al. (2014) Joint Research Centre (JRC) technical reports. The CoM default emission factors can be used by local authorities in the Eastern Partner countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) of Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy initiative to estimate their CO2 or Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions due to: a) local consumption of fossil fuels and non-renewable wastes b) local consumption of biofuels, biomass, solar thermal and geothermal Renewable energy sources (RES) c) local electricity production from oth...

The realization of national climate change commitments, as agreed through international negotiations, requires local action. However, data is still insufficient to make accurate statements about the scale of urban emissions (UNHABITAT, 2011). The need of comparable emission inventories at city level, including smaller cities, is widely recognized to develop evidence-based policies accounting for the relation between emissions and institutional, socio-economic and demographic characteristics at city level. This paper presents a collection of harmonized greenhouse gases (GHG) emission inventories (the "CoM sample 2013") at municipal level directly computed by the cities and towns that participate in the EU Covenant of Mayors initiative. This is the mainstream European movement of local and regional authorities who voluntarily commit to reduce GHG emissions by 20 % or more by 2020. The "CoM sample 2013" (<a…

The main purpose of this scientific report is to provide an assessment of the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) Initiative 6 years after it has been initiated by the European Commission. By implementing the CoM Initiative, the European Commission has given visibility to the role of local authorities and their relevant contribution to EU2020 Climate and Energy targets. This is the second assessment report in a series of CoM assessment reports published by JRC. As of mid-May 2014 5,296 local authorities signed the Covenant of Mayors (CoM), for a total of ca. 160 million inhabitants in the EU-28, and ca. 186 million inhabitants in the whole initiative. Based on the data collected from Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs) submitted by CoM Signatories as of mid-May 2014, a statistical methodology has been developed to select a CoM data set for evaluating the real impact of the CoM initiative. The report provides main statistics of the data set in terms of GHG emission and estimated reductions,...