Iraq: Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions, 2015-2026

Climate TRACE provides annual and monthly greenhouse gas and air pollutant emission estimates for Iraq across multiple industrial sub-sectors. The inventory includes country-level annual records starting in 2015 and high-resolution monthly source-level data from 2021 onwards. These estimates are derived from a global monitoring system covering over 2.7 million emission sources.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in Iraq's carbon footprint using annual sub-sector and gas type records
• Identifying high-emission industrial hotspots using monthly source-level data and confidence scores
• Mapping corporate or state accountability by linking emissions to asset ownership fields

Strengths

• Provides monthly granularity for source-level emissions starting in 2021
• Includes confidence scores for every source-level estimate
• Covers both greenhouse gases and specific air pollutants

Limitations

• Source-level data is unavailable for the 2015-2020 period
• Data consists of estimates rather than direct on-site sensor measurements

Provenance

Source

Climate TRACE

Collection Method

Estimated via satellite imagery and remote sensing data processed through machine learning models

Time Range

2015 - 2026

Freshness

Updated through March 2026; includes historical data starting from 2015.

Geography

Iraq