UK Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions from 2015 to 2026

Climate TRACE provides greenhouse gas and air pollutant emission estimates for the United Kingdom, covering annual country-level data since 2015 and monthly source-level data since 2021. The inventory tracks emissions across various sub-sectors and gas types, incorporating confidence scores for granular source-level records.

Use Cases

• Analyzing annual trends in the UK by 'sub-sector' and 'gas' type since 2015
• Filtering monthly source-level data by 'confidence' scores to identify high-certainty emission events
• Mapping 'emissions source ownership' to specific industrial assets for corporate accountability studies

Strengths

• Provides monthly source-level granularity since 2021
• Includes confidence scores for emission estimates
• Categorizes emissions by specific gas types and sub-sectors

Limitations

• Source ownership data is incomplete
• Relies on estimation models rather than direct physical metering for all sources
• Specific column headers and row counts are not defined in the metadata

Provenance

Source

Climate TRACE

Collection Method

Estimated using a combination of satellite imagery, sensor data, and modeling

Time Range

2015 - 2026

Freshness

Last updated March 2026; includes monthly data starting from 2021.

Geography

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland