General guidance on developing consumption-based inventories is available
Detailed data collection for consumption-based emissions is a resource-demanding task and relative few municipalities have the capacity to undertake it. General average estimates of the consumption-based emissions are, however, provided at national level for most Nordic countries. Local emissions from the use of grid-based energy can often be obtained from general data.
Municipality-specific household surveys can provide data on citizens’ consumption-based emissions. Such data has been collected by consultants or research organisations for specific case studies but is not available nationwide. Municipalities can take part in wider national or regional-level efforts and benefit from collaboration and work done by statistical offices and academia. In Sweden and Finland, for instance, consumption-based estimates have been provided for all municipalities as part of separately funded research initiatives. Regularly updated municipal-level consumption-based inventories are, however, still lacking. The Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Inventories aims at developing further guidance on consumption-based inventories of GHG emissions at the municipal level.