Romanian Carbon
Database
Carbon footprint assessments became mandatory with the implementation of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) on the 1st of January 2023 as well as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) from the 1st of January 2024 in the 27 EU member states.
This means that a large amount of companies now require supplier-specific data related to carbon for their carbon footprint analysis. This data comes under the form of conversion factors also called emission factors, which allow the conversion between a certain professional activity and a CO2 equivalent.
A company’s activity data such as business travels, electricity consumption, consulting fees (invoices, balance sheet, supplier info)
An emission factor which converts km travelled, kwH consumed, or EUR spent, in CO2 equivalent (online database, supplier info)
Carbon Footprint
Currently, many of the 27 EU member countries lack this type of data. Certain countries like France, Germany and the United Kingdom already have developed carbon databases with data specific to their activities. Unfortunately, the rest of the member countries who don't have their own data, use these already existing databases for their own assessments. This causes a great granularity problem for the results obtained. When using an emission factor which represents the conversion of telecommunication services in France, this number will be completely different in another country such as Romania. This happens because the french telecommunication industry will emit a different amount of CO2 than the romanian one.
This is why many countries started developing their own database in order to battle this data precision problem. In 2014, the Clim'foot project had the goal of creating carbon databases in other EU member countries such as Italy, Greece, Hungary and Croatia using the guidance of the French actors who had previously created the first carbon database in Europe.
