Tool: System for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions (SEEG)

SEEG is an online platform developed by Brazilian civil society initiative the Climate Observatory that provides GHG emissions data at national, regional and municipal levels in Brazil. The tool provides cities with total emissions for the agriculture, energy, land use change, industrial processes and waste sectors.

Specifications

Suitable for which city climate journey stage?	Establishing an emissions baseline
Tool strengths	- Publicly available, scientifically peer-reviewed methodology - The tool also provides emissions data for states and regions - The emissions for individual cities add up to the national level emissions for Brazil, enabling cities to directly compare with neighbouring cities and assess their contribution to Brazil’s NDCl
Tool limitations	- Not aligned with GPC or CRF - Emissions not disaggregated by scope - No functionality for cities to input their own local data to improve the accuracy of the output - Only available for cities in Brazil
Geographic location/countries	Brazil
Language	Portuguese
Accessibility	Free to use
Methodology	SEEG emissions data is generated by multiplying activity data with emission factors, based on the methodology of the Brazilian Inventories of Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals prepared by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI). Data is sourced from government reports, institutes, research centres, sector entities and non-governmental. Emissions data is allocated down to municipal level using municipal activity data where available and national data where local data is not available.
Documentation of methodology	https://seeg.obass.info/metodologia/
Data quality/verified by 3rd party	To assess the quality of the methodology and the data generated by SEEG, the methodology is peer-reviewed by members of the Climate Observatory and other organisations on an annual basis. The data is also compared with the national Brazilian Inventory, published by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. There is less than 7% difference in total emissions between the two datasets. The data has been scientifically peer-reviewed.
Alignment with global standards and protocols (eg GPC and CRF )	Not aligned with GPC or CRF
Emissions scopes	Emissions not disaggregated by Scope
GHGs	CO2, CH4, N2O and HFCs
Sectors included	Stationary energy, transport, Waste, AFOLU, IPPU.
Scopes, GHGs and sectors excluded	GHGs: PFCs, SF6, NF3.
Temporal resolution	Annual
Spatial resolution	City boundary
Functionality for city to make adjustments	No functionality for cities to input their own local emissions data or to redefine their boundary.
Latest accounting year	2019
Frequency of data updates	Annual
Units	Metric tonnes (tCO2e)
Using the tool, data outputs and how it can be exported	SEEG’s municipality data can be accessed via the tool’s digital platform. You can search for your city using the search box or by navigating using the map. Here you can view the data directly or download the complete municipality database as an excel file. The activity data used in the calculations is also available through the platform and it is possible to access infographics about the emissions of each sector, methodological notes that explain in detail how the data collection and production are performed and an evaluation of data quality. The sectors are not aligned with the GPC or CRF so would need to be mapped against them in order to report the data against these protocols.
Additional tool functionalities	None