South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Emissions by Gas and Sub-Sector

Climate TRACE provides greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions data for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, featuring annual country-level records 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 greenhouse gas emissions using the gas and sub-sector fields
• Evaluating the reliability of emission estimates using the confidence metric provided for monthly data
• Identifying primary emission contributors through sub-sector and source ownership identifiers

Strengths

• Provides monthly granularity for source-level emissions starting from 2021
• Includes confidence scores for all monthly source-level estimates
• Covers a continuous annual time series starting from 2015

Limitations

• Source ownership metadata is inconsistent and may be missing for many records
• Small geographic scope of the territory may result in a limited number of active emission sources

Provenance

Source

Climate TRACE

Collection Method

Estimated from over 744 million assets using satellite imagery and remote sensing models by a non-profit coalition.

Time Range

2015-2026

Freshness

Updated through March 2026 according to metadata.

Geography

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands