Heard Island and McDonald Islands: GHG and Air Pollutant Emissions since 2015

Climate TRACE provides greenhouse gas and air pollutant emission estimates for Heard Island and McDonald Islands, featuring annual country-level data since 2015 and monthly source-level data since 2021. The inventory tracks emissions across specific sub-sectors and gas types for over 2.7 million sources globally.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in specific gas types using monthly source-level records
• Comparing emissions across different sub-sector categories to identify primary pollution drivers
• Evaluating the reliability of emission estimates using the confidence field

Strengths

• Monthly source-level granularity since 2021
• Includes confidence scores for emission estimates
• Annual country-level data spanning from 2015

Limitations

• Source ownership data is incomplete across all assets
• Relies on modeled estimates rather than direct continuous sensor readings

Provenance

Source

Climate TRACE

Collection Method

Estimated inventory based on multi-organization coalition data

Time Range

2015 - 2026

Freshness

Last updated March 2026; includes data starting from 2015.

Geography

Heard Island and McDonald Islands