Comparability
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The statistics are compiled for 1990 and onwards and are comparable over time. The statistics have been produced in collaboration with the Danish Energy Agency and are used for the Danish Energy Agency's report "Danmarks Globale Klimapåvirkning – Global Afrapportering". there will therefore be full agreement between results published by the Danish Energy Agency and Statistics Denmark.
As there is not yet full international agreement on methods and data bases for calculating climate footprints, there will not necessarily be full comparability with the calculations of other institutions or other countries.
Comparability - geographical
Environmental economic, multi-regional IO models are a scientifically recognized and widespread method for calculating countries' consumption-based climate footprints (cf. e.g. the article Tukker et al, 2018)). The method behind these statistics is also used by other national statistical agencies that prepare consumption-based climate footprints. For example, the national statistics agencies in England and Sweden have made such calculations, where their methods are reminiscent of the method behind the Danish climate footprint. However, there are still no official international standards for national statistical agencies' calculations of consumption-based climate footprints. Therefore, attention should be paid to whether there may be significant methodological differences when comparing climate footprint calculations from different organisations, including different national statistical agencies.
Comparability over time
The climate footprint is fully comparable over time from 1990 onwards.
Coherence - cross domain
The statistics have been produced in collaboration with the Danish Energy Agency and are used for the Danish Energy Agency's report "Danmarks Globale Klimapåvirkning – Global Afrapportering". Thus, the figures in the Statistics and "Danmarks Globale Klimapåvirkning – Global Afrapportering" are consistent with each other.
The starting point for the Danish Energy Agency's publications and publications from Statistics Denmark is thus completely the same, but since this is data material of a very significant size, there may be differences in how the data is combined or split up, and it is therefore essential to adhere to the texts which help to present and explain the figures.
There is not full comparability between data from the GHG protocol, Scope1-3 and the climate footprint. Scope1 emissions come from a company, and are defined as direct greenhouse gas emissions from sources owned or controlled by the company GHG protocol, p. 25. The calculation principles are not completely comparable, as industries are not groupings of institutional units, such as companies, but of local professional units. A company can therefore belong to several industries.
Coherence - internal
When compiling the statistics, it is ensured that the data is internally consistent.