Local governments across the globe play a key role in mitigating consumption-based emissions. However, most of them currently lack tools and knowledge to address these emissions.
The workshop aims to share lessons learned from the current work of Nordic municipalities with estimating consumption-based emissions and discuss what they need and the challenges and opportunities they have identified. The outcomes of the workshop will inform the future priorities of the Nordic Council of Ministers.
This workshop is the first of two pan-Nordic workshops in the “Sustainable Climate Neutral Nordic Municipalities” research project funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Working Group for Climate and Air (NKL). This project aims to synthesize the best practices for how municipalities can work to quantify consumption-based emissions and sinks. A workshop about municipality work with carbon sinks will be held 26 October 2022.
The workshop is for employees in municipal administrations in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden working with sustainable consumption, GHG accounting, climate budgeting or adjacent topics.
The event is hosted by four Nordic research institutes: Aarhus University (AU, Denmark); Center for International Climate Research (CICERO, Norway), Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI, Sweden); Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE, Finland) as part of a project financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
1. Welcome and introductions
2. Methods for estimating consumption-based emissions: a stepwise approach from “simple and rough” to “advanced but work intensive” methods (Hans Sanderson, Aarhus University)
3. Nordic municipalities’ work with consumption-based emissions estimates – key findings from a survey to municipalities (Katarina Axelsson, SEI/Laura Saikku, SYKE)
4. Break-out session 1:
Municipalities own consumption:
5. Break
6. Examples from Nordic municipalities:
7. Break-out session 2:
Consumption in households and businesses:
8. Wrap-up plenary discussion (Hans Sanderson, Aarhus University)
The discussions in the break-out groups will be held in English or Scandinavian languages depending on the preferences of the group members.
Past event / This workshop aims to share lessons learned from the current work of Nordic municipalities with estimating carbon sinks and challenges they face in this area.
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