Southeast Asian City Carbon Emissions from 2000 to 2020

4,413 city-level units are covered in this carbon emissions panel dataset spanning two decades from 2000 to 2020. It was constructed using a top-down allocation framework anchored to EDGAR provincial totals and integrating proxies like impervious surfaces and nighttime lights. The work was supported by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

Use Cases

• Modeling urban carbon footprints based on integrated proxy data like nighttime lights and impervious surfaces.
• Analyzing long-term emissions trends for cities based on the consistent two-decade panel.
• Comparing the performance of allocation algorithms like Random Forest or Neural Networks for downscaling emissions.
• Assessing the relationship between urban development patterns and carbon emissions based on the urban-rural residential distribution proxy.

Strengths

• Covers 4,413 city-level units, providing granular spatial detail.
• Spans a consistent 20-year time range from 2000 to 2020.
• Uses a multi-proxy, algorithmically evaluated methodology for allocation.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Xingyu Chen.

Collection Method

Constructed within a top-down allocation framework anchoring city estimates to EDGAR provincial totals, integrating multiple proxies and evaluating machine learning algorithms.

Time Range

2000 to 2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-26 09:51:33; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southeast Asia, city-level