OpenIO v2.6

New emissions added

Emissions of SF6, as well as 12 HFCs and 7 PFCs were added to openIO-Canada. These emissions come from the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) of Canada (https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a8ba14b7-7f23-462a-bdbb-83b0ef629823). These emissions are therefore coming from declaration of facilities. However, not all facilities within Canada participate to that program. The coverage of these new GHG emissions is thus limited to the reporting facilities and their impact of Canada's carbon footprint is therefore underestimated.

Corrections for meat sector industry

Because the meat sector is aggregated both at the economic level (supply and use tables) and the emissions level (physical flow accounts), the inputs and emissions were allocated following an economic approach. It created inconsistencies in the portrait of the meat sectors in some provinces. For instance, Quebec produces primarily hogs and very little cattle. In the description of the beef products of Quebec, it was actually primarily composed of pig meat, which doe snot make sense. The inputs of the meat sectors were thus adjusted to ensure that all cattle are used for beef meat products, hogs are used for pig meat products, poultry are used for poultry products.