Waste Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Country 1990-2018

Waste sector greenhouse gas emissions data covers 194 countries and the European Union from 1990 to 2018. The dataset is compiled by the World Resources Institute's Climate Watch platform and aggregates emissions of six major GHGs, expressed in CO2 equivalents. It is part of the broader Climate Watch Historical Emissions collection.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in waste sector emissions over the 1990-2018 period for individual countries.
• Compare total waste GHG emissions in Mt CO2 eq across 194 countries and the EU.
• Model the contribution of non-CO2 gases from waste using IPCC AR4 global warming potential conversions.
• Benchmark national waste sector performance against regional or global averages.

Strengths

• Covers 194 countries and the European Union, providing broad geographic scope.
• Includes 29 years of temporal coverage from 1990 to 2018.
• Reports emissions for six major greenhouse gases converted to a standard CO2 equivalent metric.

Limitations

• Data ends in 2018, creating a significant temporal gap for current analysis.
• Specific emission sub-categories within the waste sector and underlying column details are unknown.
• Row counts and sample data are unavailable, limiting assessment of data density and completeness.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Aggregated from multiple sources including FAO and OECD/IEA, with non-CO2 emissions converted using IPCC AR4 GWP values.

Time Range

1990-2018

Freshness

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Geography

194 countries and the European Union.