1990 serves as the baseline year for measuring percentage changes in total greenhouse gas emissions. This World Development Indicators dataset tracks the combined emissions of six Kyoto Protocol gases from energy, industry, waste, and agriculture sectors, excluding LULUCF. Emissions are standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent values using IPCC AR5 Global Warming Potential factors.
Use Cases
- Analyze emission change trends over time for specific countries using the percentage change metric.
- Compare sectoral contributions to national emissions by referencing the energy, industry, waste, and agriculture sectors covered.
- Model the relationship between economic development and emission changes using the standardized CO2 equivalent values.
- Benchmark a country's progress against its 1990 baseline emission level, where negative values indicate reduction.
Strengths
- Standardized measurement using IPCC AR5 GWP factors for consistent cross-gas comparison.
- Excludes LULUCF fluxes, which have larger uncertainties, improving data reliability for tracked sectors.
Limitations
- Row count, geographic coverage, and specific time range are unknown.
- Excludes land use change and forestry emissions, which are significant for some countries.
Provenance
- Source
- World Development Indicators
- Collection Method
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- Time Range
- Annual data from at least 1990 onward.
- Freshness
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- Geography
- National-level data for countries covered by World Development Indicators.