GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals will have to address all of the following points:

• Review the existing emission factors derived from the key global sources, duly reflecting the scientific state of the art and ensuring the coverage of new and conventional fuels.
• Perform the gap analysis and develop emission factors for categories not yet covered, both for upstream and downstream emissions, taking into due consideration new production pathways, and addressing in particular the uncertainty and variation in the well to tank factors to be applied to the new fuels.
• Establish a clearer set of rules regarding:
• Methodology – to ensure that the basis and legitimate use of the two fundamental methodology types (consequential and attributional) are properly understood and applied appropriately.
• Boundaries of calculation – to ensure that boundaries are not accidentally or deliberately set in order to favour particular outcomes.
• Common sets of fuel / energy specifications – to ensure that data labels and associated values are truly aligned between sources.
• Assumptions about input parameters that can result in variations in output values based on local circumstances for specific production.
• The basis for new energy carriers to be calculated quickly and consistently in order to avoid delaying the deployment of new, beneficial solutions.