Project
Feasibility Study on Compiling Global Air Emission Accounts
Client
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
Objective
The limited scope of the OECD AEA database presented problems for the development of demand-based estimates of emissions. Demand-based emissions were a key indicator in the OECD's green growth indicator suite and may be complied only for countries for which SEEA-based AEAs exist. This greatly limited the scope for calculating green growth indicators for countries that are unable to produce environmental accounts because of resource constraints. The OECD funded the research in this report to develop and test methodologies to construct SEEA-based AEAs for any country for which basic air emissions data are available from global databases such as United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change greenhouse gas inventories.
Our Role
This report was prepared by Midsummer Analytics under the guidance of Mr. Pierre-Alain Pionnier of the OECD Statistics Directorate. In conjunction with Mr. Pionnier, we provided a study to develop and test methodologies for constructing SEEA-based air emissions accounts using only publicly available global datasets. Our research built on existing work by Mr. Pionnier and refined and extended his methodology to include other air emissions. In addition, two other methodologies were developed and tested.
