North Korea Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions (2015-2026)

Climate TRACE provides greenhouse gas and air pollutant emission estimates for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea covering the period from 2015 to 2026. The data includes annual country-level aggregates by sub-sector and monthly source-level estimates for specific assets starting in 2021. It tracks emissions for over 2.7 million sources globally, with this subset focusing specifically on North Korean territory.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in North Korean GHG emissions using the monthly source-level data
• Comparing emission intensities across different industrial sub-sectors and gas types
• Assessing the reliability of modeled data using the provided confidence scores

Strengths

• Includes monthly source-level granularity since 2021
• Provides confidence scores for all emission estimates
• Covers both greenhouse gases and air pollutants across multiple sub-sectors

Limitations

• Emissions are modeled estimates rather than direct ground-truth sensor measurements
• Ownership information for assets is frequently unavailable
• Specific column headers are not defined in the source metadata

Provenance

Source

Climate TRACE

Collection Method

modeled estimates based on multi-source data integration

Time Range

2015-2026

Freshness

Updated through March 2026.

Geography

Democratic People's Republic of Korea