Account Templates and Guidebook
What information is in the Guidebook?
The Guidebook to the National Footprint Accounts: 2010 Edition provides a detailed description of the 2010 Edition of the National Footprint Accounts. The National Footprint Account calculations for a single country and year are organized in 79 interconnected worksheets in a Microsoft Excel workbook. All raw datasets are stored in a database maintained by Global Footprint Network, which is queried for the appropriate country and year values in order to populate the NFA Excel workbook. The NFA time series are generated by successively populating the NFA workbook with values for each country and year, and then recording the values of certain specified output cells back to the database.
The Guidebook for the National Footprint Accounts: 2010 Edition contains explanations of each worksheet in the National Footprint Accounts workbook, detailing the format of the sheet, how calculations are performed within the sheet, and how it is connected with the other calculations in the accounts. The 79 worksheets are grouped by component (cropland, grazing land/livestock, fishing grounds, forest, carbon, and built-up land). Within each land use type the worksheets are generally related in a hierarchical structure, going from several raw data inputs to one summary sheet of final Footprint estimates. The Guidebook includes a diagram showing the hierarchy of worksheets for each land use type.
The Guidebook is written for the intermediate to advanced NFA user interested in extracting data from the 2010 Edition or in understanding the methodology in detail. The 2010 Edition of the National Footprint Accounts for each country and year from 1961 to 2007 are available under license from Global Footprint Network. The National Footprint Account calculations for Hungary and for the world are available under a free academic license. Also available are special research licenses which permit modification of the accounts. For details, visit http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/ GFN/page/licenses/ or contact licensing@footprintnetwork.org.
Figure 42, below, shows the layout of a Guidebook entry and how it describes a worksheet. For each land use type in the calculation, the Guidebook also lists all data sources used, and what worksheets they appear in. Table 42 is an example of the references contained in the Guidebook, in this case for the carbon Footprint calculation.
Table 3.Guidebook Example; Table with Sources Data
Worksheet Referenced
Emissions from fossil fuels, by nation and economic sector
iea_fossil_n
Emissions from fossil fuels, by nation
cdiac_fossil_n
International trade quantities by commodity Embodied energy of commodities
Data Sources IEA CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion. Database. 2010. http://wds.iea.org/wds/. Marland, G., T.A. Boden, and R. J. Andres. 2010. Global, Regional, and National Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions. In Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Oak Ridge, TN: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and U.S. Department of Energy UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database. http://comtrade.un.org/.
comtrade_n fossil_efi, fossil_efe
PRĂŠ Consultants Ecoinvent Database, version 7.1. http://www.pre.nl/ecoinvent/default.htm.
Carbon sequestration factor
cnst_carbon
IPCC. 2006. 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Volume 4: Agriculture Forestry and Other Land Use. http://www.ipccnggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/vol4.html.
Ocean sequestration
cnst_carbon
IPCC. 2001. Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
World heat and electricity carbon intensity
cnst_carbon
IEA CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion Database. 2010. http://wds.iea.org/wds/.
Table 42: Guidebook example, table with sources
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