CoM Default Emission Factors for the Southern Mediterranean Partner countries - Version 2017

The Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy brings together thousands of local and regional authorities voluntarily committed to implementing climate mitigation measures and energy objectives on their territory. This document 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 Cerutti and Janssens-Maenhout (2013) and Cerutti et al. (2014) Joint Research Centre (JRC) technical reports. The CoM default emission factors can be used by local authorities in the Southern Mediterranean Partner countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia) 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 other RES (wind, hydroelectric, photovoltaics) d) local electricity consumption