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Data description paper
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23 Feb 2022
Data description paper |
| 23 Feb 2022
| 23 Feb 2022
Estimating CO2 emissions for 108 000 European cities
Daniel Moran
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process
Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway
Peter-Paul Pichler
Department of Social Metabolism and Impacts, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany
Heran Zheng
Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process
Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway
Helene Muri
Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process
Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway
Jan Klenner
Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process
Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway
Diogo Kramel
Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process
Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway
Johannes Többen
Department of Social Metabolism and Impacts, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany
Helga Weisz
Department of Social Metabolism and Impacts, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany
Thomas Wiedmann
Sustainability Assessment Program, School of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Annemie Wyckmans
Faculty for Architecture and Design, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Anders Hammer Strømman
Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process
Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway
Kevin R. Gurney
School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona
University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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This paper presents the modeling methods used for the website https://openghgmap.net, which provides estimates of CO2 emissions for 108 000 European cities.
This paper presents the modeling methods used for the website https://openghgmap.net, which...
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