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== Welcome to the Regulatory Monitoring Working Group Portal ==
== Welcome to the Regulatory Monitoring Working Group Portal ==
This portal serves as a central hub for working group outputs.   
This portal serves as a central hub for working group outputs.   
Here, you'll find a **summary table** of key regulatory frameworks, with links to detailed reviews.
Here, you'll find a summary table of key regulatory frameworks, with links to detailed reviews.




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{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! Regulation Name
! Regulation Name
! Database Type
! Regions
! Regions
! Free or Paid
! Applicable to
! Description
! Description
|-
|-
| '''[[ecoinvent]]'''
| CBAM example
| Life Cycle Inventory (LCI)
| EU
| Global
| Importers
| Paid
| Example description
| Comprehensive life cycle inventory data for carbon footprinting and sustainability assessments.
|-
|-
| '''[[DEFRA Emission Factors]]'''
| Name example
| Government Database
| Regions example
| UK
| Applicable example
| Free
| Description example
| Official UK government emission factors for company reporting.
|-
| '''[[GREET Model]]'''
| Research Model
| USA
| Free
| Argonne National Laboratory’s tool for transportation emissions and life cycle analysis.
|-
| '''[[EXIOBASE]]'''
| Multi-regional Input-Output (MRIO)
| Global
| Free
| Detailed multi-regional input-output database for environmental assessments.
|-
| '''[[GHG Protocol Database]]'''
| Industry Standard
| Global
| Free
| A widely used emissions database for corporate and product carbon accounting.
|-
|Agribalyse
|
|France
|Free
|Managed by the French Environment Agency (ADEME), is a public database that provides detailed life cycle assessment data for agricultural and food products.
|-
|Base Empreinte
|
|France
|Free
|Managed by the French Environment Agency (ADEME). It focuses on carbon emissions related to various sectors, providing emission factors for a wide range of activities, products and services.
|-
|EEA
|
|Europe
|Free
|Primarily focussed on emission factors for air pollutants and greenhouse gases in the European Union.
|-
|GLEC
|
|Global
|Free
|Globally recognized emission factors for freight transportation; covering road, rail, air, sea, and inland waterways.
|-
|UBA
|
|Germany
|Free
|The Umweltbundesamt (UBA), Germany’s Environment Agency, provides emission factors for various sectors, including energy, industry, transport, and agriculture.
|-
|OEKOBAUDAT
|
|Global
|Free
|OEKOBAUDAT is a German government-managed database for environmental impacts and emissions associated with construction materials and buildings.
|-
|EPA
|
|USA
|Free
|Regularly updated and easy-to-use set of default emission factors for organizational greenhouse gas reporting.
|-
|CARB
|
|Global
|Free
|CARB maintains a list of the Global Warming Potential for the most common refrigerants regulated under their Refrigerant Management Program
|-
|Carbon Ditch
|
|
|Paid
|DitchCarbon is a platform designed to automate the collection and reporting of Scope 3 emissions data.
|-
|WRAP
|
|Global
|Free
|Provides a repository of secondary emission factors for food and drink that organisations can use for scope 3 reporting.
|-
|PCAF
|
|Europe
|Free
|It provides a standardized methodology for measuring and reporting financed emissions in the financial sector.
|-
|Netherlands Enterprise Agency
|
|Netherlands
|Free
|List of emission factors including Tank-to-Wheel, Well-to-Tank and biogenic emissions
|-
|EORA
|Multi-regional Input-Output (MRIO)
|Global
|Paid
|MRIO model that provides a time series of high-resolution IO tables with matching environmental and social satellite accounts for 190 countries.
|-
|Government of Canada
|Government Database
|Canada
|Free
|The  EFs are more tailored to national reporting (following IPCC guidelines) than organisational reporting.
|-
|BEIS
|
|UK
|Free
|In addition to fuels and UK electricity EFs, it also provides data sets relevant to Scope 3 categories.
|-
|AIB
|
|Europe & UK
|Free
|AIB publishes annual residual grid emission factors for European countries aligned to the reporting requirement under the market-based approach in the GHG Protocol scope 2 guidance.
|-
|Green-e
|
|USA
|Free
|Green-e plays a role in certifying renewable energy and carbon offsets.
|-
|IEA
|
|Global
|Paid
|Provides international electricity emission factors.
|-
|IPCC
|
|Global
|Free
|To be used in calculation of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases.
|-
|EEI
|
|USA
|Free
|Database of market-based EFs for electricity suppliers in the US
|-
|ICE
|
|UK
|Free
|The Inventory of Carbon and Energy (ICE Data base) is an embodied carbon database for building materials.
|-
|Plastics Europe Eco profiles
|
|Europe
|Free
|Lifecycle inventories and Environmental Production Declarations for a large number of different plastics.
|-
|eGRID
|
|USA
|Free
|eGRID separates electricity generation and emissions across several aggregation levels: Generator, Plant, State, and Subregion. 
|-
|FIGARO
|Multi-regional Input-Output (MRIO)
|Europe & G20
|Free
|Includes aligned Input Output Tables, Supply-Use Tables, Globalisation Indicators and Environmental footprints (GHG emissions).
|-
|[[Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) Default Values]]
|
|Global
|Free & Paid
|A policy tool implemented by the EU for carbon-intensive goods imported into the EU.
|-
|Electricity Info
|
|UK
|Free
|A selection of datasets on UK electricity fuel mix and carbon intensity.
|-
|Carbon Database Initiative
|
|Global
|Free
|Country electricity EFs outside UK, USA, Canada and Australia are calculated by Carbonfootprint.com
|-
|WIOD (or EEIO)
|
|Global
|Free
|Includes aligned Input Output Tables, Supply-Use Tables, Socio Economic Accounts and links to external Environment Accounts (energy + carbon dioxide).
|}
|}
== Related Resources ==
* [[index.php?title=Category:Emission Factors]]
* [[Portal:Offsetting]]
* [[Portal:Finance]]
* [[Portal:Regulations]]

Revision as of 10:59, 16 April 2025

   Regulatory Monitoring Portal

Welcome to the Regulatory Monitoring Working Group Portal

This portal serves as a central hub for working group outputs. Here, you'll find a summary table of key regulatory frameworks, with links to detailed reviews.


Regulatory Frameworks Summary

Regulation Name Regions Applicable to Description
CBAM example EU Importers Example description
Name example Regions example Applicable example Description example
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