EDGAR: Global Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 1970-2012

EDGAR v4.3.2 provides a 43-year global inventory of CO2, CH4, and N2O emissions from all human activities except land-use change. Its bottom-up, IPCC-compliant methodology yields annual estimates for 226 countries and 0.1-degree gridmaps for each source sector. For 2010, the dataset also includes monthly gridmaps, offering higher temporal resolution for that year.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term emission trends by country and economic sector based on the 1970-2012 time series.
• Modeling atmospheric dispersion of greenhouse gases using the global 0.1-degree resolution gridmaps.
• Assessing sectoral contributions to national emissions for IPCC reporting, leveraging the source-sector breakdown.
• Investigating seasonal emission patterns for the year 2010 using the provided monthly gridmaps.

Strengths

• Covers 226 countries, providing truly global geo-coverage.
• Offers continuous temporal coverage from 1970 to 2012, a 43-year span.
• Includes high-resolution (0.1-degree) annual and, for 2010, monthly geospatial gridmaps.

Limitations

• Data ends in 2012, limiting analysis of recent emission trends.
• Excludes emissions from the land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector.
• Specific column names and row counts are not provided in the available metadata.

Provenance

Source

European Commission, compiled by Greet Janssens-Maenhout.

Collection Method

Bottom-up compilation based on international statistics and emission factors, following an IPCC-compliant approach.

Time Range

1970 to 2012

Geography

Global (226 countries)