Manufacturing and Construction Sector CO2 Emissions by Country 1990-2018

Sector-level greenhouse gas emissions data for manufacturing and construction activities. The dataset covers 194 countries and the European Union, with annual records from 1990 to 2018. It was compiled by the World Resources Institute's Climate Watch platform and published by the Country Climate and Development Report.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in manufacturing_sector CO2 emissions over the 1990-2018 time_range for specific countries.
• Compare construction_sector emissions between different countries or regions using the 194-country geography coverage.
• Model the relationship between economic activity and CO2_equivalent emissions for the manufacturing/construction sector.
• Validate national GHG inventory reports against the Climate Watch Historical Emission data source.

Strengths

• Covers 194 countries and the European Union for broad spatial comparison.
• Provides a 29-year time series from 1990 to 2018 for longitudinal analysis.
• Emissions data includes six major GHGs converted to CO2 equivalents using standardized IPCC values.

Limitations

• Data ends in 2018, creating a significant temporal gap for current analysis.
• Specific column names and granularity (e.g., sub-sector breakdown) are not provided in the description.
• Non-CO2 emissions rely on conversion factors (GWP-100) which carry inherent uncertainty.

Provenance

Source

World Resources Institute (WRI) Climate Watch Historical GHG Emissions.

Collection Method

Aggregated from several sources including FAO 2020 for land-use/agriculture and OECD/IEA 2020 for fuel combustion.

Time Range

1990 to 2018

Freshness

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Geography

194 countries and the European Union.