Botswana: Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions since 2015

Climate TRACE provides an inventory of greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions for Botswana, featuring annual country-level data since 2015 and monthly source-level estimates since 2021. The collection covers emissions by sub-sector and gas type for over 2.7 million sources globally, including specific assets within Botswana. It was produced by the Climate TRACE non-profit coalition and updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Trend analysis of Botswana's national emissions by 'sub-sector' and 'gas' type since 2015
• Identification of high-emitting facilities using 'monthly source-level' estimates
• Validation of climate models using the provided 'confidence' scores for specific assets

Strengths

• Monthly granularity for source-level data since 2021
• Includes confidence scores for individual emission estimates
• Covers both country-level and specific asset-level sources

Limitations

• Ownership data is missing for some assets
• Temporal gap between country-level (2015) and source-level (2021) start dates
• Estimates are model-based rather than direct sensor measurements

Provenance

Source

Climate TRACE

Collection Method

Estimated via a coalition of organizations using various data sources and models

Time Range

2015 - 2026

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Botswana