Jamaica: Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions from 2015

Climate TRACE provides annual country-level and monthly source-level greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions for Jamaica starting from 2015. The inventory tracks emissions across various sub-sectors and gas types, utilizing data from over 744 million assets globally to generate localized estimates. Source-level data includes monthly granularity and confidence scores beginning in 2021.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in Jamaica's industrial emissions using monthly source-level records
• Comparing the carbon footprint of different economic sub-sectors within the country
• Validating environmental models using the provided confidence scores for specific emission points

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Specific row counts and column schemas are not explicitly listed in the metadata
• Source ownership data is inconsistent and subject to availability

Provenance

Source

Climate TRACE

Collection Method

Estimated through a coalition-led inventory of 2.7 million sources and 744 million assets

Time Range

2015 - 2026

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026; contains annual data from 2015 and monthly data from 2021.

Geography

Jamaica