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Home > Cities > Greenhouse Gas Emissions Tools and Datasets: Guide for Cities > Municipal Energy and Emissions Database (MEED)

Tool: Municipal Energy and Emissions Database (MEED)

MEED is an online dashboard, developed by consultancies Sustainability Solutions Group and whatif? Technologies, where Canadian municipalities can view their total and per-sector energy and emissions data. This is a Beta version, and the tool is in the process of being updated.

Specifications

Suitable for which city climate journey stage? Establishing an emissions baseline
Tool strengths - Aligned with the GPC format
Tool limitations - Currently no functionality for municipality to input their own local data to improve the accuracy of the output. The updated version of the tool coming in 2022 is planned to have this functionality.
- Currently no functionality to export the GPC report as an excel file. The updated version of the tool coming in 2022 is planned to have this functionality.
- Only available for municipalities in Canada
Geographic location/countries Canada
Language English, French
Accessibility Free to use
Methodology
The tool estimates local municipality emissions by downscaling national and regional energy and GHG emissions data to local governments across Canada, using geospatial analysis and machine learning methods. The national and regional data is downscaled using localised data points, such as population, households, employment, weather and known large emitters. The tool integrates both bottom-up activity-based community GHG inventory data and top-down national and regional data, including waste disposal. To assess the quality of the output, the results are compared to published federal energy and emissions reports. Where there are differences, the MEED calculator assumptions are adjusted. Emissions from large industries have been allocated to the places where their employees are registered. The data sources for MEED come from: Statistics Canada; Census of Population; Business Register; Disposal of waste, by source; Index of Remoteness; Census of Agriculture; Natural Resources Canada; Comprehensive Energy Use Database (CEUD); and National Railway Network.
Documentation of methodology https://meed.info/documents/MEED_Tech_doc_v0-1.pdf
Data quality/verified by 3rd party To assess the quality of the output, the results are compared to published federal energy and emissions reports. Where there are differences, the MEED calculator assumptions are adjusted. The data is not verified by a third party.
Alignment with global standards and protocols (eg GPC and CRF ) Aligned with GPC
Emissions scopes 1, 2
GHGs CO2, CH4, N2O
Sectors included Transport, buildings, stationary energy sources, waste
Scopes, GHGs and sectors excluded Scopes: scope 3. GHGs: HFCs, PFCs, SF6, NF3. Sectors: IPPU and AFOLU.
Temporal resolution Annual
Spatial resolution City boundary
Functionality for city to make adjustments No functionality to adjust the boundaries or for cities to add local data to improve the accuracy of the data. The updated version of the tool coming in 2022 is planned to include the functionality to improve the accuracy of the tool using local utility data.
Latest accounting year 2018 (soon to be updated to 2019)
Frequency of data updates Annual
Units Metric tonnes (t CO2e)
Using the tool, data outputs and how it can be exported To access the tool, cities need to register on the dashboard. Following this, the user can search for their city using the “Access Data” search bar. Cities can explore the data for total emissions or individual sectors on the dashboard. The tool also automatically converts the data into the GPC format online, therefore the data can be copied and pasted straight into the GPC inventory format. An upcoming update to the tool will enable municipalities to add their own local data as well as export the data to excel.
Import into CDP-ICLEI Track Currently no functionality to import data into CDP-ICLEI Track
Additional tool functionalities None
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