Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Waste Sector by Country

1990-2018 data on waste sector non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions for 194 countries and the European Union, expressed in million metric tons of CO2 equivalent. The dataset is produced by the World Resources Institute's Climate Watch platform and compiled from sources including the FAO and OECD/IEA.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in waste_sector emissions over the 1990-2018 time_range for specific countries.
• Compare methane and other non-CO2 GHG emissions levels across different countries or regions.
• Model the relationship between economic development indicators and waste_sector emissions using country-level data.
• Benchmark national waste management performance against the European Union using the provided emissions metrics.

Strengths

• Covers 194 countries and the European Union, providing broad geographic comparison.
• Includes 29 years of temporal data (1990-2018) for analyzing long-term trends.

Limitations

• Data ends in 2018, creating a 6+ year gap from the present for current analysis.
• Specific row count, column details, and sample size are unknown, limiting assessment of granularity.

Provenance

Source

World Resources Institute (WRI) Climate Watch Historical GHG Emissions data.

Collection Method

Aggregated from multiple sources including FAO 2020 (FAOSTAT) for agriculture/land-use and OECD/IEA 2020 for CO2 from fuel combustion.

Time Range

1990-2018

Freshness

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Geography

194 countries and the European Union.