Statistical presentation

Data description

The statistics show the amount of greenhouse gas that has been emitted in the supply chains for Danish final use. The emissions are distributed by type of final use, emitting industries and countries, as well as by supplying industries.

The calculation of the climate footprint uses 100-year Global Warming Potentials from the IPCC's fourth assessment report (AR4) to convert tonnes of a given greenhouse gas into tonnes of C02 equivalents.

The supply chain for a type of final use is defined in these statistics as all the production activities in Denmark and the rest of the world that have been necessary to produce the products for final use. The supply chain behind e.g. milk includes both raw milk production and further processing, the production of dairy cows and feed for them, the production of electricity to run the stables and dairies, as well as steel and wood to build the stables and dairies, etc.

The emissions are calculated in tonnes of CO2e (CO2 equivalents) and include the greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 (Methane), N2O (Nitrous oxide) and F-gases (SF6, HFC-gases and PFC-gases). In relation to LULUCF (unfccc.int) the climate footprint only includes emissions from land use in the agricultural sector.

The statistic has five variables: - Types of use: The type of Danish final use whose supply chain led to the greenhouse gas emissions. - Supplying industry: The Danish industry that formed the last link in the supply chain for the final use. Imports from foreign industries directly for final use are entered under the item "Imports for final use" so that the statistics are fully comprehensive. (Supply industry is only included in the AFTRYK2 table) - Emitting industry: The industry where the production that emitted the greenhouse gas took place. - Emitting country: The country where the production that emitted the greenhouse gas took place. - Year: The year of final use.

For example, in table AFTRYK1 you can see that – according to the climate footprint model – the agricultural industry in Italy emitted 46,290 tonnes of CO2e greenhouse gases in 2021 as part of the supply chains for Danish food consumption.

In table AFTRYK2, you can see that – according to the climate footprint model – the electricity supply in China emitted 4,908 tonnes of CO2e greenhouse gases in 2021 as part of the supply chains for the Danish pharmaceutical industry's production for Danish final use.

When looking at the emissions from emitting industries, you must be aware that the figures only include emissions from the industry's own production. This means, for example, that the agricultural industry as a emitting industry includes emissions from, among other things, cows and tractors, but not from the production of the electricity that the agricultural industry buys from the electricity supply industry. These emissions are listed as emissions in the electricity supply industry. The industry breakdown of output industries is calculated in the same way as in the Emissions account

When looking at the emissions from supplying industries, one must be aware that the emissions belonging to a supplying industry are not the emissions from the industry's total production and its supply chains, but only from the production that the industry itself supplied for final use, as well as from the supply chains for this production.

For example, the emissions from agriculture as a "supplying industry" only constitute a small part of the total emissions from agriculture as an "emitting industry". This is because the supply chains for household demand for food to a very large extent start with slaughterhouses and dairies, which refine agricultural products and make them ready for consumers. Only a few consumers buy milk, eggs and meat directly at the barn door. So consumer demand for meat does not go to agriculture, but to the slaughterhouse. On the other hand, the emissions from "supplying industries" show all emissions back into the supply chains, including also in other industries both domestically and abroad. To use the example from before, emissions from slaughterhouses as a "supplying industry" will include both emissions from the slaughterhouse itself, from Danish agriculture, from emissions from the electricity supply in Denmark, from foreign producers of soy protein that is used as animal feed in Danish agriculture, etc.

Classification system

Types of use and industries are divided according to classifications that are also used in the national accounts In the table AFTRYK2, the final use is simply divided into domestic final use ( which make up the Climate Footprint) and exports. In table AFTRYK1, domestic final use is further divided into private consumption, NPISH consumption, public consumption and investment, and private consumption is divided into 11 subgroups as follows COICOP the classification.

The industries are divided according to the national accounts' 117 industry classification. This corresponds – with a few deviations – to the 127 industry classification in the Danish Industry Code 2007 (DB07). DB07 is a Danish version of the international nomenclatures EU's NACE, Rev. 2 and the UN's ISIC, Rev. 4, and contains a number of standard groupings: the 127, 36, 19 and 10 groupings. The national accounts' 117 industries can be aggregated to the other standard groupings in DB07.

The country breakdown comes from EXIOBASE and consists of 44 individual countries and five groupings for the rest of the world.

Sector coverage

The Climate Footprint covers all sectors of the economy.

Statistical concepts and definitions

Climate footprint: The amount of greenhouse gas emitted in the supply chains for the Danish domestic final use, which includes household consumption, consumption in institutions etc. (NPISH), public consumption and investments.

Supply chain: The term supply chain is used somewhat interchangeably and has varying definitions. In this statistic, the term supply chain is used to illustrate the network made up of all the production activities in Denmark and the rest of the world that have been necessary to produce the products in the final use. The term supply chain thus includes both direct and indirect, derived production in Denmark as well as abroad. In the calculations, emissions of greenhouse gases are linked to the production activities in the supply chains. The supply chain behind e.g. milk includes the production of raw milk in the agricultural sector, the transport to and further processing in the dairies, the production of feed for dairy cows, the production of electricity to run the barns and dairies, steel and wood to build the barns, tank truck and dairies, etc.

Statistical unit

The units in the national accounts are resident companies, households or other units that are characterized by being able to make independent financial decisions and enter into financial transactions with other resident or non-resident units.

Statistical population

Danish domestic final use (household consumption, NPISH, government consumption and investment)

Reference area

Denmark

Time coverage

The statistics covers the period from 1990 and onwards

Base period

Not relevant for this statistics.

Unit of measure

Tonnes of CO2 equivalents.

Reference period

01-01-2021 – 31-12-2021.

Frequency of dissemination

Annual

Legal acts and other agreements

Legal authority for data collection is found in § 8 subsection 1 in the Act on Denmark's Statistics, cf. Legislative Decree No. 610 of 30 May 2018 in as well as Regulation No. 691/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European environmental economic accounts.

Cost and burden

The statistic is based on information from existing statistics. There is therefore no direct reporting burden in connection with the calculation of this statistic.

Comment

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