Abstract
Abstract. The Paris Agreement has underlined the role of cities in combating climate change. The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) is the largest international initiative dedicated to promoting climate action at a city level, covering globally over 10 000 cities and almost half the population of the European Union (EU) by end of March 2020. The fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report notes that there is a lack of comprehensive, consistent datasets of cities' greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventories. In order to partly address this gap, we present a harmonised, complete and verified dataset of GHG inventories for 6200 cities in European and Southern Mediterranean countries, signatories of the GCoM initiative. To complement the reported emission data, a set of ancillary data that have a direct or indirect potential impact on cities' climate action plans were collected from other datasets, supporting further research on local climate action and monitoring the EU 27 (the 27 member states of the EU) progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 on climate action. The dataset (Kona et al., 2020) is archived and publicly available with the DOI https://doi.org/10.2905/57A615EB-CFBC-435A-A8C5-553BD40F76C9.
Highlights
Cities consume over two-thirds of the world’s energy and generate about 70 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (IPCC, 2014) while being at the same time vulnerable to the impacts of climate change (Reckien et al, 2018)
The dataset presented in this paper aims to fill these gaps in Europe and Southern Mediterranean countries (Table 1)
It consists of a harmonised, comprehensive and verified dataset of GHG emissions based on data produced by 6200 cities in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) (EU 27), the European
Summary
Cities consume over two-thirds of the world’s energy and generate about 70 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (IPCC, 2014) while being at the same time vulnerable to the impacts of climate change (Reckien et al, 2018). The dataset presented in this paper aims to fill these gaps in Europe and Southern Mediterranean countries (Table 1) It consists of a harmonised, comprehensive and verified dataset of GHG emissions based on data produced by 6200 cities in the 27 member states of the EU (EU 27), the European. A distinctive characteristic of the European GCoM initiative is that it includes in its members small towns interested and engaged in climate action, often absent from other initiatives This dataset offers cities of all sizes the means to formulate a comparative analysis of the magnitude, efficiency and intensity of energy use and GHG emissions. Further to the information presented in this paper, a more comprehensive amount of information and the corresponding guidelines are available through the CoM website http: //www.covenantofmayors.eu (last access: January 2021)
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