Land-Use Change and Forestry GHG Emissions by Country 1990-2018

World Resource Institute's Climate Watch provides greenhouse gas emissions data for the Land-Use Change and Forestry sector. The dataset covers 194 countries and the European Union for the period 1990-2018, with emissions expressed in million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Data is compiled by the World Resource Institute and cited to FAO 2020 and OECD/IEA sources.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in land-use change emissions over time for specific countries using the 1990-2018 time-series data.
• Compare forestry sector GHG contributions between nations using the country-level emissions data.
• Model the impact of land-use policies by correlating emissions data with external deforestation or afforestation metrics.
• Benchmark national progress against climate targets using the sector-specific CO2 equivalent emissions figures.

Strengths

• Covers 194 countries and the European Union.
• Provides a 29-year time series from 1990 to 2018.
• Emissions for six major GHGs are converted to a standardized CO2 equivalent metric.

Limitations

• Data ends in 2018, lacking recent years.
• Specific column definitions and row counts are not provided.
• Non-CO2 emissions rely on global warming potential values from the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, which may be outdated.

Provenance

Source

World Resource Institute's Climate Watch, derived from FAO and OECD/IEA sources.

Collection Method

Aggregated from several sources, with land-use data cited to FAO 2020 FAOSTAT Emissions Database.

Time Range

1990-2018

Freshness

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Geography

194 countries and the European Union.