Global Covenant of Mayors, a dataset of greenhouse gas emissions for 6200 cities in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean countries

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 pop...

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Published in:Earth system science data 2021-07, Vol.13 (7), p.3551-3564
Main Authors: Kona, Albana, Monforti-Ferrario, Fabio, Bertoldi, Paolo, Baldi, Marta Giulia, Kakoulaki, Georgia, Vetters, Nadja, Thiel, Christian, Melica, Giulia, Lo Vullo, Eleonora, Sgobbi, Alessandra, Ahlgren, Christofer, Posnic, Brieuc
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Language:English
Subjects:
Air pollution
Carbon footprint
Cities
Climate action
Climate change
Climate monitoring
Datasets
Emission inventories
Emissions
Emissions (Pollution)
Energy consumption
Free trade
GDP
Global temperature changes
Greenhouse gases
Gross Domestic Product
Identification
Initiatives
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Local climates
Mayors
Metadata
Paris Agreement
Per capita
Population
Statistical methods
Sustainable development
Sustainable Development Goals
Urban areas
Urbanization
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1866-3516
1866-3508
1866-3516
DOI:10.5194/essd-13-3551-2021