China Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions by Source and Sub-sector

Climate TRACE provides greenhouse gas and air pollutant emission estimates for China, covering annual country-level data since 2015 and monthly source-level data since 2021. The inventory tracks emissions across various sub-sectors and gas types, derived from a global database of over 2.7 million sources. This data is part of a broader effort to provide an open and accessible inventory of global emission sources.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in specific greenhouse gases using the gas and monthly source-level emissions fields
• Comparing emission intensities across different industrial sub-sectors
• Mapping high-emission assets to identify primary contributors to regional air pollution

Strengths

• Monthly granularity for source-level data starting in 2021
• Covers multiple gas types and air pollutants
• Includes confidence scores for source-level estimates

Limitations

• Source-level data is restricted to the period from 2021 onwards
• Emissions are modeled estimates rather than direct measurements for all assets

Provenance

Source

Climate TRACE

Collection Method

Estimated/Modeled

Time Range

2015-2026

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026; includes annual data from 2015 and monthly data from 2021.

Geography

China