FAOSTAT Emissions Totals provides greenhouse gas emissions data from agriculture and forest land. Estimates cover methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for countries globally from 1961 to 2019, with some projections to 2050. The Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) disseminates this data, which is updated annually.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in CH4 emissions from livestock activities by country over the 1961-2019 period.
- Compare N2O emissions from crop production across different countries using the kilotonnes (kt) metric.
- Model aggregate CO2 equivalent (CO2eq) emissions for a region using IPCC AR5 global warming potentials.
- Benchmark a country's farm-gate emissions against global totals for specific years.
- Project future emissions scenarios to 2030 or 2050 for supported emission categories.
Strengths
- Global country-level coverage for core data.
- Time series spanning over 50 years (1961-2019).
- Includes forward-looking projections for 2030 and 2050 for some categories.
Limitations
- Data is computed at IPCC Tier 1 level, a less detailed methodological tier.
- Temporal coverage is inconsistent, with some categories only available from 1990-2019.
- The most recent historical data point is from 2019, which may be stale for current analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- FAOSTAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) Emissions Totals domain.
- Collection Method
- Computed at Tier 1 following the IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
- Time Range
- 1961–2019 for primary data, with projections to 2030 and 2050 for some categories; 1990–2019 for others.
- Freshness
- Updated annually.
- Geography
- Global coverage by country.