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EDGAR v4.3.2 Global Atlas of the three major Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the period 1970–2012
Abstract. The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) compiles anthropogenic global emissions and trends based on international statistics and best-available emission factors, for the use in atmospheric models and in policy evaluation. The new version v4.3.2 of the EDGAR emission inventory provides global emission estimates, disaggregated at source-sector level, for the historic period from 1970 (the year of EU's first Air Quality Directive) until 2012 (the end year of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol). The global geo-coverage and continuous time-series are strengths of the EDGAR database, which applies the same methodology and mainly default emission factors to all world countries, in order to achieve comparability and full transparency. Region-specific emission factors are selected, when these are recommended by IPCC (2006) guidelines or when these are justified by robust information on significant differences in economic activities, in customs or in geographical ambient conditions and proven to be more representative than the global average. This database is not only unique in its space-time coverage, but also in the completeness and consistency of the estimated emissions of multiple pollutants: the greenhouse gases (GHG), air pollutants and aerosols. This publication documents the first part of the EDGAR v4.3.2 emissions database focusing on emissions of the three major greenhouse gases of CO2, CH4 and N2O, from human activities apart from the land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector (including forest and savannah burning). Unlike the activities of the LULUCF sector, which are typically estimated top-down from less certain land-use observations, all these activities are estimated bottom-up from standard annual statistics of fuel, products, waste, crops or livestock. We present country-specific emission totals and analyse the trends and variations in emissions of the largest emitting countries together with the EU in more detail, to uncover the effect of changes in human activities with time on each of the gases. The GWP-100 weighted global total GHG emission trend is predominantly determined by the global CO2 trend and in particular, by fuel markets trends, geopolitical changes and financial crises rather than population changes. We also evaluate the uncertainty in emissions for different sectors and three groups of countries (the OECD countries of 1990, the countries with economies in transition in 1990 and the remaining non-Annex I countries). Even though large progress has been made on emission inventory compilation, the uncertainty in global total GHG emissions has not decreased, because of the increasing share of emissions from countries with less developed statistical infrastructure and secondly the decreasing share of emissions from the activities (e.g. coal power plants) for which relatively accurate information is available. Finally, we discuss changes in geospatial distribution with a focus on hot spots and megacities using gridded information. Data is presented online for each source category with annual and monthly global emissions grid-maps of 0.1° × 0.1° resolution and can be freely accessed from the EDGAR website http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/overview.php?v=432&SECURE=123 (DOI: https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2904/JRC_DATASET_EDGAR).
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RC1: 'Review of ESSD-2017-79 EDGAR v4.3.2 Global Atlas of the three major Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the period 1970-2012', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Oct 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to reviewer 1', Greet Janssens-Maenhout, 30 Dec 2017
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RC2: 'Review of essd-2017-79', Dabo Guan, 24 Nov 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to reviewer 2', Greet Janssens-Maenhout, 30 Dec 2017
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RC1: 'Review of ESSD-2017-79 EDGAR v4.3.2 Global Atlas of the three major Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the period 1970-2012', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Oct 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to reviewer 1', Greet Janssens-Maenhout, 30 Dec 2017
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RC2: 'Review of essd-2017-79', Dabo Guan, 24 Nov 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to reviewer 2', Greet Janssens-Maenhout, 30 Dec 2017
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EDGAR v4.3.2 Global CO2, CH4 and N2O Emissions for 1970-2012 G. Janssens-Maenhout, M. Crippa, D. Guizzardi, M. Muntean, and E. Schaaf https://doi.org/10.2904/JRC_DATASET_EDGAR
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